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Devin Nunes commentary: “you and your family are under siege and the Democratic Party is leading the attack”

Posted by: Maven on June 18, 2009 at 6:43 am

From the Kingsburg Recorder, this commentary by Devin Nunes:

In recent weeks, I have suggested that registered Democrats of the San Joaquin Valley change their party affiliation. My intent isn’t a plea to grow Republican registration and it is not a partisan attack. It is simply an observation necessary to inform Valley residents — you and your family are under siege and the Democratic Party is leading the attack.

Don’t get me wrong, Democrats have, in the past, contributed to the greatness of our state, as well as the San Joaquin Valley’s rich agricultural heritage. For example, President John F. Kennedy and other Democrats from his generation helped build significant portions of California’s massive water infrastructure on which the world’s most diverse and productive farming region depends.

However, these aren’t the Democrats who control the party today. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her radical liberal Democrats have taken their place. Many of these liberals have been in Congress for the past 30 years and have ushered in far reaching environmental laws — some of which were crammed into must-pass legislation in the dead of the night. These laws have whittled away our ability to deliver water to families in the San Joaquin Valley. Just last week, the Obama Administration released a new biological opinion that will take as much as 500,000 acre feet of water from our dry communities. This new diversion of precious water for questionable environmental purposes comes on top of losses we have seen as a result of the Delta smelt and the San Joaquin River Settlement.

Read more of this commentary by Devin Nunes in the Kingsburg Recorder by clicking here.

June 18, 2009 · Filed Under Drought, Weather & Snowpack, San Joaquin Valley

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