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Quote of the day
“The Delta is being thrown under the bus.” –State Sen. Lous Wolk.
No, two buses. There’s the state water deal. Of that, Wolk says, “It’s a 19th century approach, where a small group like the Big Five gets in the room, decides what to do, and then they go out and pick everyone off.”
And there’s the prison deal. Together they cause a near-surreal feeling, a sense of injustice so deep that it’s hard to believe. The state, which has offered Stockton so few solutions to its challenges, which has, in fact, often made things worse, is exploiting the region as its solution to two of its major challenges. They design to wreck the quality of life here to guard the quality of life there. It is not good government, where all interests get at least a portion of their needs satisfied. It’s old-school cash-register politics in which one region overpowers another for its benefit. See Owens Valley.
Legal action must always be approached skeptically. When taken in issues such as growth, it often makes the process more fractious and less democratic. But the processes here have not been democratic. No attempt was made to hear out interests. On the contrary. We’ve been locked out of the room. If legal action is the key, then so be it.