The Delta contingent that traveled to Sacramento this morning was disappointed that Alyson Huber, D-El Dorado Hills, didn’t get a second to force a vote on her bill that would have required a vote on a peripheral canal.
Davis democrat Mariko Yamada made a motion for the bill to pass through committee, but it never got to a vote because no one seconded it.
Said Huber: “I do think it is unfortunate to not even get a courtesy second” on a bill regarding what could be the largest public works project in California history.
She said afterward that some committee members left the dais when her bill was heard. “It’s hard to persuade a courtesy second when they’re not in the room,” she said.
Kevin Kauffman, Stockton East Water District general manager, said, “It was politics.”
