Via On The Public Record, Mike Taugher, the Contra Costa Times’ environmental reporter, has a great piece on Carly Fiorina — the rich incompetent wingnut now trying to replace Barbara Boxer as senator from California — and her attempts to blame California’s economic woes on the Endangered Species Act:
For [US Senate candidate] Fiorina, the issue is simple. Less water from the Delta should be dedicated to fish.
“In the short term, an amendment needs to pass the United States Senate to override the biological assessment on the smelt that caused the water to be turned off,” Fiorina said. “The reason she’s not doing it is she’s in the pockets of extreme environmentalists.”
Fiorina blames Boxer for voting against an amendment by South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint in September that would have removed limits on Delta pumps to help fish populations, and for putting the needs of “a small fish ahead of the livelihoods of California’s farmers and farmworkers,” according to her website.
Fiorina said the Delta water crisis is a “huge piece of my platform,” in which she argues that an increase in water supply is essential for creating jobs.
But her attacks are not always accurate. Delta pumps were never turned off last year. They were dialed down, but that was mostly because of dry conditions and not endangered species rules. And she has exaggerated the number of jobs lost.
Boxer, meanwhile, has maintained a relatively low profile on the issue.
There’s more. It’s good. Read it.
1 comment on "Carly Fiorina is a lying, anti-environmentalist sack of crap"
Was pretty amazed the last time I drove down I-5 to see all of those “Congress Created Dust Bowl” signs.
(Some nearly on the shoreline of Tulare lake; oh, the irony)
I hadn’t realized that Congress controlled the weather.
I guess, we are all doomed.