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Kenneth Groves Jr.: Flora not blinded by tunnel vision, would protect our water

Why does Jerry Brown desire to send Northern California water south? The governor has a seriously poor sense of direction. Sacramento bureaucrats have no right to assume the power to re-direct river water from Northern California farmland, demanding to send the water to the Delta strictly for the survival of fish and, ultimately, out to sea. After all, the fish didn’t elect Brown.

Heath Flora, seeking Assembly seat 12, places people, food, jobs and the economy first. Flora believes the governor’s priorities should include building new water storage facilities, and abolishing current plans to construct two underground tunnels for sending more water south – thereby enhancing the drought. I am not impressed with the governor’s tunnel vision. My vote goes to Heath Flora.

Kenneth Groves Jr., Ceres

This story was originally published October 6, 2016 at 4:44 PM with the headline "Kenneth Groves Jr.: Flora not blinded by tunnel vision, would protect our water."

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