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1 Skip Intro  Nov 22, 2014 5:20:14pm

I’d really like to be able to read this article in full to see where you get this “as another example of crappy governance, this time at the state level”, but I can’t because it’s behind the LA TImes paywall.

If you’re referring to Feinstein, she isn’t local, she’s federal, and it would make my heart rise to hear she’s never going to run for office again.

If you’re not, there’s not enough of the article available to see where you’re coming from.

2 Indy GOP Refugee  Nov 22, 2014 5:24:20pm

re: #1 Skip Intro

Use Google to get around the paywall. You will see it’s state lawmakers working with her to get around environmental laws in dealing with our drought. Actually we might agree on this one. Maybe.

3 blueraven  Nov 22, 2014 6:44:31pm

re: #2 Indy GOP Refugee

You will see it’s state lawmakers working with her to get around environmental laws in dealing with our drought. Actually we might agree on this one. Maybe.

Maybe I am missing something, I see nothing about CA state lawmakers working with Feinstein.

I read the article and encountered no paywall?

Sen. Dianne Feinstein and other federal lawmakers are negotiating water deals behind closed doors.

4 Indy GOP Refugee  Nov 22, 2014 6:56:45pm

re: #3 blueraven

Why end the transparency?

5 blueraven  Nov 22, 2014 7:05:40pm

re: #4 Indy GOP Refugee

Why end the transparency?

I am not arguing that point at all.

6 LoonRadio  Nov 22, 2014 8:55:17pm

Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.

7 Skip Intro  Nov 23, 2014 10:09:32am

Deal is dead.

8 goddamnedfrank  Nov 23, 2014 1:22:23pm

The editorial gets it backwards. Feinstein was trying to hammer out a compromise plan before the Republicans take over next year and totally gut environmental protections. She may have been trying to accomplish this in secret, but only because it’s likely she won’t be able to mitigate the damage nearly enough next year.

Feinstein’s unexpected move ends, for now, what had become an increasingly contentious fight over ambitious drought-fighting legislation whose details few people have seen.

“You’ve got to work with people to get something done,” Feinstein said in an interview. “I’m going to put together a first-day bill for the next Congress, and it can go through the regular order.”

Right up until Thursday, Feinstein and Republicans in the House of Representatives had been pushing hard to beat the Capitol Hill clock, as the lawmakers and their staffs swapped text language and haggled over details in hopes of completing a bill before a scheduled Dec. 11 adjournment. The negotiators had taken care of “a lot of low-hanging fruit,” said Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a Republican from Butte County.

Introduced by freshman Rep. David Valadao, R-Hanford, and drawing largely on a bill previously introduced by Nunes, the House bill rolls back a landmark 1992 law that directed more water to protect the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The bill removes wild-and-scenic protections from a half mile of the Merced River, and it authorizes new water-storage projects on locations that include the Upper San Joaquin River, among other provisions.

The House measure also repeals the expensive San Joaquin River restoration effort, which has cost more than $100 million to date and is anticipated to go higher. The bill replaces the restoration plan with something more modest.

The legislation was passed without the usual committee hearing and markup, as House members insisted time was of the essence.

I get why environmentalists were wary of Feinstein’s secretive efforts, inasmuch as they smacked of collaboration. However considering who she, who she was working with, the House bill she was trying to mitigate, and the certain future of the next Congress I think her attempt to craft a pragmatic compromise here makes a lot of sense. It’s doubtful she would have gotten anywhere in the current climate acting through the normal order. Now, having failed to reach a final agreement she is reliant on GOP goodwill at the start of the next session, hoping that they will honor as much of the secretly agreed upon deals as possible.

In short, as much as I dislike her I don’t think she had any good options here.

9 cinesimon  Nov 23, 2014 3:59:21pm

Surprise surprise, a dishonest editorial from the LA Times.


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