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Stuart Leavenworth: Feinstein says she’s no Westlands ‘shill,’ but …

Posted by: Maven on March 7, 2010 at 7:53 am

From Stuart Leavenworth at the Sacramento Bee:

“You know you’ve struck a nerve with an editorial when, on the very next business day, California’s senior senator rings you on the telephone.

That’s how I found myself spending an hour on Monday, engaged in an animated but civil exchange with U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

Feinstein, calling me from her home near the nation’s capital, was responding to a Feb. 27 editorial on her efforts to secure more water for the Westlands Water District, an agricultural giant in the San Joaquin Valley.

Westlands, a federal water contractor that lacks secure water rights of its own, has found itself vulnerable to cutbacks in supplies. Such cutbacks are the result of drought and court decisions aimed at protecting smelt and salmon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. … “

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March 7, 2010 · Filed Under Water Agency News

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