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California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, recently penned this article about Paul Rodriguez and his plight of the California Latino Water Coalition.

“What has Rodriguez’ concerned to spark political action is the shutdown of water pumps in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. These pumps move water from California’s wet north to the agricultural Central Valley and urban Southern California. A judge’s ruling switched the pumps off over a controversial U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report that declared a fish, the delta smelt, threatened. No one really knows if turning the pumps off will help the fish, but most can agree that California’s agricultural industry will take a big hit this year due to lack of water.”

“I remember George Romney, when he was president of American University in the 1960s, told the Detroit car companies that nothing is more vulnerable than entrenched success. American higher education is by far the best in the world. Nobody has anything to compare it with. Nothing is more vulnerable than entrenched success. The “Big Three” didn’t create small cars in the 1960s and 1970s, but their Japanese competitors did, and sold them one by one and you see where we are today. You see where we are today.[Read more here...]“