Darlin' Diane was just giving Christmas presents to her Beverly Hills billionaire supporters, Stuart and Linda Resnick. Don't you believe in Santa Claus?
Resnicks sold "some" of their water rights in 2011 for about $78 million smack-a-roos to tide them over until Darlin Diane could jam through this brilliant two sentence pork sandwich for them that should bring Resnicks hundreds of millions of dollars more in the coming years as they resell the water to the highest bidders. The Resnicks' partner, Los Altos, CA real estate developer, John Vidovich, sold "some" of his water rights for a $77 million in 2009, according to the Hanford Sentinel.
Watch for more mega contributions for Darlin' Diane and President Barrack Obama from these gentleman “farmers”, Money flows uphill to let the Delta water flow downhill direct to the private Kern Water Bank and Westlands Water District. If you don't like Mrs. Santa Claus Feinstein giving your taxpayer dollars away like this, do your homework about the Monterey Amendment Agreements of 1995 that gave the Kern Water Bank Authority to the Resnicks, and demand this be rescinded. It was done behind closed doors in Monterey and involved $74 million of taxpayer money to develop before making the big deal with the Resnicks. The Department of Water Resources just turned it over to five water districts and the Resnicks' private company, Westside Water Company, which is owned by the Resnicks' Roll International. If you really want to protest, quit buying the Resnicks other products like POM pomegranate juice and pistachios from their Paramount Farms, or flowers from their TelaFlora flower company!
This type of California water politics has been going on for many decades. If it sounds fascinating, read The King of California about the first mega-farmer, Jim Boswell, who drained Tulare Lake dry when it was the largest body of fresh water west of the Mississippi. It appears as though Darlin' Diane and her billionaire friends are using this Boswell biography as a coach's play book to do the same thing with the California Delta water now. Governor Jerry Brown is trying to finish off what his father, Gov. Pat Brown, started when he just didn't get the big ditch canal. Today, Gov. Brown's sister, Kathleen, works for Goldman Sacks and I don't have to wonder who will sell the water bond if it passes in November! Nothing has changed since the days Jim Boswell's son piloted an airplane from big farm to big farm to pick up bags of cash for Gov. Pat Brown and other politicians to keep them in line with water issue needs in Kern County. Only the names have changed.
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