GOVERNOR BROWN CALLS OUT A GOP CANDIDATE FOR DUMB REMARKS

 

Carly Fiorina is taken aback by Governor Brown’s attack on her comments.

It was refreshing to see California Governor Jerry Brown call out GOP candidate Carly Fiorina for recently saying that California’s droughts were due in part to liberal politicians not building the state’s infrastructure to mitigate the drought.  This discussion occurred between Carly and Chuck Todd on a recent Sunday Meet The Press program.

After Carly's comment, Chuck showed Ms. Fiorina, Governor Brown’s taped response to Carly’s comments where the governor said, “I have never heard of such utter ignorance.  Building a dam won’t do a damn thing about fires or climate change or the absence of moisture in the ground & vegetation in California. So I think these people, if they want to run for president, better do some kind of 8th grade science before they make any more utterances.”

Carly was of course taken aback. She then claimed the governor was just making a lot of personal insults against her.  But her actual response to his statements also made absolutely no sense. She had followed with silly comments about firefighters needing more water as if what was being dropped on the California drought fires was sand, not water.

Carly also said. “Liberal politicians who stood up for forty years as the population of California doubled and said you cannot build a new reservoir and you cannot build a new water conveyance system. And so for forty years, 70% of the rainfall washed out to sea. That’s pretty dumb when you know you are going to have droughts every single year or every three years.”

The disingenuousness of her words was even more pronounced, given the Republican’s continued resistance to any additional taxes for building anything and the GOP’s aversion to any infrastructure spending.

Apparently, Carly is not aware that it was Governor Ronald Reagan, not liberal politicians, that caused a lot of dams and reservoirs to not be built.  Laws like the California Environmental Quality Act, signed by Gov. Reagan in 1968, made it much tougher to pour concrete in California for infrastructure growth and improvements.  In addition, President Richard Nixon had signed the Clean Water Act in 1972 that slowed down the efforts of the so called “liberals” for building more water conservation systems.

What Governor Brown did in responding to Carly and her comments is very important. One must not allow today’s Republican lies to become tomorrow’s false truths.

 

In this case it is not about building more dams. It is about real conservation. It is about efficient use of a scarce resource, especially since 80% of the state’s water is consumed by corporate agriculture, not California residents.

 

And yes, it is about that ugly scientific liberal truth called “global climate change”.

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