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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://thevalleycitizen.com/valley-water-valley-politics-a-fact-pattern/">https://thevalleycitizen.com/valley-water-valley-politics-a-fact-pattern/</a></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">...</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">. Thus far, courts have agreed that OID should take into account effects on groundwater before selling water by performing an EIR.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to General Manager Steve Knell, recent estimates for groundwater pumping by OID farmers are at 20,000 acre feet per year. OID itself pumps approximately 8,000 acre feet per year. Wells are still going dry in and out of the district.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Westlands Water District is notorious for political machinations and spends millions of dollars for lobbyists in Washington D.C. and Sacramento. Although it’s the largest water district in the United States, Westlands is located in one of the most arid regions&nbsp; in California; the groundwater is bad and access to surface water is complicated by junior water rights—water rights for Westlands were gained long after such districts as OID had been granted their own “senior” water rights.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over thirty years ago, irrigation water from Westlands Water District was implicated in &nbsp;severe bird deformities at Kesterson Wildlife Refuge due to dangerous levels of selenium that had accumulated in storage ponds for agricultural runoff. Over the years, various solutions have been proposed for the drainage problems. Most recently, a <b>bill proposed by Congressman David Valadao&nbsp;<a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-20150920-column.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">would relieve Westlands of the $350 million</a>&nbsp;it owes taxpayers</b> for its share of the Central Valley Water Project in return for rectifying the drainage problems.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That’s right—Westlands Water District still has not paid its share for the Central Valley Water Project, which was completed in the 1970s</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. It’s managed to dodge its debt the same way it’s managed to acquire northern California water, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">by political power, especially as exercised by congressional representatives including David Valadao, Devin Nunes, Kevin McCarthy, and Jeff Denham,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/113-2014/h553" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">all of whom supported the 2014 California Drought Relief Act</a>&nbsp;which would have assured continued shipments of northern California water south to Westlands even during drought years.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
In El Porvenir, a small town in Fresno County, water rates are $110 a month for water residents can’t even use to cook with. That pencils out to $1320 an acre foot per family, assuming a family would use that much unsafe water.And even though farmers in the arid Westlands Water District and beyond have been able to somehow plant and maintain so-called “permanent” crops like almonds and pistachios, poor residents in small towns in the district have found their water rates skyrocketing even while&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2018/02/27/californians-are-struggling-to-pay-for-rising-water-rates" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">their water has been judged unsafe to drink.</a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even an urban resident in water-rich Stanislaus County is likely to be paying $600 or $700 an acre foot of water or more. Meanwhile, multi-millionaire almond farmers often get water at below the cost of delivery.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And when OID sends water south, taxpayers and ratepayers foot the bill for infrastructure and pumping costs, evaporation losses, attorneys’ fees and other costs associated with selling water. When the water goes to Westlands, it goes to a district that owes taxpayers $350 million dollars and is poised to take over many of northern California’s priceless water rights with hardly a murmur of protest.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s just politics.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://thevalleycitizen.com/the-denham-dossier-part-iii-water-for-tunnels/">https://thevalleycitizen.com/the-denham-dossier<b>-part-iii-</b>water-for-tunnels/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Denham has a lot of explaining to do. Once again on his biennial campaign tour, Denham’s latest reelection gambit features Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Secretary Zinke is supposedly helping Congressman Denham work against state requirements for increased flows along our rivers, the so-called, “water grab.” Denham obviously wants to show he has tremendous clout in Washington D.C., but some of his work with fellow Republicans back east isn’t good for his district, no matter how he spins it.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>For example, Jeff Denham is supporting Devin Nunes and David Valadeo in their attempts to approve the Twin Tunnels project in the San Joaquin Delta.</b>Already, over five million acre feet of northern California water leave the delta for points south, and that often includes water from our own San Joaquin and Stanislaus Rivers.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Twin Tunnels project would make it easier to send even more water south</b>, this time through two forty-foot diameter tubes. Republicans Ken Calvert and David Valadeo have added riders to H.R. 6147 which would make it impossible to sue to stop the tunnels as well as exempt California water policy from judicial review. Denham himself added a rider to stop current proposals to update the state’s water plan.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Needless to say, exempting the tunnels from litigation is not only a violation of due process, it also puts government above and beyond public review. Why would Jeff Denham favor such a thing?</font></p><p data-setdir="false" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Why? Because Jeff Denham has three conflicting challenges:&nbsp;</b>(1) He has to convince voters in the Modesto Irrigation and Turlock Irrigation Districts (MID and TID) he can stop the state from increasing flows along the Tuolumne River (2) He has to overlook&nbsp;<b>Oakdale Irrigation District (OID) water sales</b>&nbsp;because, (3) He has to work with fellow Republicans Nunes and Valadeo to keep water going south and, in the best of cases (for them), increase the amount of water they get from northern California.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s a difficult act along a very tight wire, but Jeff Denham is a master of putting perception before reality. And he knows that he couldn’t have better misdirection than the furor caused by the state’s proposal to increase flows along our rivers.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even though the proposals for increased flows have been on the table for years now, and the opportunity to adjust and negotiate was always present, Jeff Denham did nothing. Now, as is also the case with immigration, Denham needs to make his position on water look right just long enough to get reelected.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
<b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But most of all, Jeff Denham is hoping no one will notice he’s never once demonstrated a desire to keep CA-10 water in CA-10 rather than send it south</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">That’s because when Donald Trump promised to deliver water to “Central Valley farmers,” Jeff Denham, like Devin Nunes and David Valadeo, knew Trump was really talking about<b>&nbsp;BIG AG in the southern San Joaquin Valley</b>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;They knew because they’ve been helping send water south all along.&nbsp; Denham is hoping the increased flow proposals will obscure the fact that that OID has been selling water south to&nbsp;<b>Westlands Water District for well over a decade</b>. He’s also hoping no one will notice OID water sales came to an abrupt halt when they were challenged in court. They came to a halt because they’re environmentally unsound. OID then began a process of&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.modbee.com/news/local/oakdale/article131538269.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">abandoning its own water rights</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;so it could continue to ship water south—not exactly the message you want to send if your region is complaining about water shortages.</span></font></p><p data-setdir="false" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The southern San Joaquin Valley is where Stewart Resnick and Boswell Farms have well over 300,000 acres between them</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;It’s also where corporate giants like Boswell and Resnick have already diverted enough water out of the San Joaquin River that it ran dry for a sixty-mile stretch until a judge ordered restored flows.</span></font></p><p data-setdir="false" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Boswell also managed to destroy Tulare Lake,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/photos-from-the-vault/article138098228.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">a wonder of nature</a>&nbsp;that once extended 60 miles from end to end and was 36 miles wide. Boswell took all that water and it still wasn’t enough.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The southern San Joaquin Valley is also where farmers, especially BIG AG, have pumped so much groundwater that the land has sunk—as much as thirty feet in some places, and it’s still sinking. Once the lake was gone and rivers dried up and the land had sunk beyond use, James Boswell, Stewart Resnick and friends looked north.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They found that contributions to politicians like David Valadeo, Devin Nunes, and&nbsp;<a href="https://thevalleycitizen.com/the-denham-dossier-part-ii-the-real-water-grab/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Jeff Denham</a>&nbsp;could bring water south, but Denham had to be careful not to let his constituents in on the scheme.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, Jeff Denham has to continue his delicate act of splitting his district into contending forces; instead of working with the major water districts to share their water and keep it here at home, Denham is working to maintain the&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">status quo.&nbsp;</em>But he’s had plenty of experience at such things; after all, every two years he promises a new immigration policy and every two years he fails to produce one.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But what’s important to Jeff Denham isn’t necessarily that anything happen. As has been the case in previous election years, the important thing is optics—Jeff has to look as though he’s working really hard for his district. The simple fact is he’s perfectly happy with the&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;">status quo,&nbsp;</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and always has been.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Now, he and his Republican buddies are promising measures they know will meet almost certain defeat in the United States Senate. Oh, and by the way, Jeff Denham, Devin Nunes,&nbsp;&nbsp;and Ryan Zinke&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/22/opinion/editorials/zinke-interior-endangered-species.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">also want to do away with the Endangered Species Act</a>—you know, the act that saved the Bald Eagle, California Condor, and, here in CA-10, the Aleutian Canada Goose, from extinction—that act.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">California Secretary of Resources John Laird&nbsp;<a href="http://www.restorethedelta.org/blog/" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">sent a powerful letter to</a>&nbsp;House and Senate Committees on Resources condemning the legislation by Denham and his Republican cronies down south. Diane Feinstein and Kamala Harris have promised to oppose it in the Senate. But perhaps the strongest statement about the tunnels came from California Congressman John Garamendi,&nbsp;<a href="https://fishsniffer.com/index.php/2018/07/18/natural-resources-secretary-john-laird-opposes-rider-banning-delta-tunnels-lawsuits/" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">who wrote</a>,</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 40px 40px 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The twin tunnels are an environmental and financial boondoggle that would devastate the ecology of the Delta to funnel more water south. As of today, over 90 parties, including environmental groups and northern California water users have taken legal action against the tunnels…The language in H.R. 6147 would not only insulate the tunnels from needed legal review but would also override water rights across the state.”</font></span></p></blockquote><p data-setdir="false" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeff Denham doesn’t care. As long as he can convince his constituents he’s working in their interests and still keep water moving south, he’s the very model of today’s professional politician—a hypocritical servant of big money who puts donor approval before the interests of his own constituents.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><article class="post-11400 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail category-featured-stories category-politics entry" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; border-bottom: none !important;"><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><h4 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><a href="https://thevalleycitizen.com/the-denham-dossier-part-iv-the-war-on-workers-and-women/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Denham Dossier, Part IV: The war on workers (and women)</font></a></h4></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://thevalleycitizen.com/the-denham-dossier-part-iv-the-war-on-workers-and-women/" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Most people who drive frequently have experienced that chilling sensation when an eighteen-wheeler starts drifting over the lane markers and looms like a moving mountain above them. Fortunately, the truck driver usually corrects the drift—often after some frantic honking of the horn and wild gesturing from a panicked commuter. Drifting trucks are most likely the […]</font></p><div class="at-below-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://thevalleycitizen.com/the-denham-dossier-part-iv-the-war-on-workers-and-women/" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;" /></div></div></div></article><article class="post-9958 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail category-featured-stories category-history tag-almond-glut tag-almond-tariffs entry" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; border-bottom: none !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><h4 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><a href="https://thevalleycitizen.com/wall-street-journal-confirms-fears-of-almond-glut/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wall Street Journal Confirms Fears of Almond Glut</font></a></h4></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://thevalleycitizen.com/wall-street-journal-confirms-fears-of-almond-glut/" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rising concerns about a glut in the almond market were confirmed by the Wall Street Journal in “U.S. Farmers are Reeling from Chinese Tariffs.”&nbsp;The article cites the Almond Board of California, and says the board is expecting a record crop when the&nbsp; harvesting of some varieties begins in about two weeks. Coupled with the supply […]</font></p></div></div></article></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.restorethedelta.org/2018/07/19/house-approves-interior-spending-bill-sending-calvert-valadao-and-denham-riders-that-would-thwart-due-process-for-the-delta-to-the-senate/">http://www.restorethedelta.org/2018/07/19/house-approves-interior-spending-bill-sending-calvert-valadao-and-denham-riders-that-would-thwart-due-process-for-the-delta-to-the-senate/</a></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.8em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box;">July 19, 2018<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box;" />Contact:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box;" />Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, 209-479-2053,&nbsp;<a href="mailto:Barbara@restorethedelta.org" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">Barbara@restorethedelta.org</a><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box;" />Nora Kovaleski, 408-806-6470,&nbsp;<a href="mailto:nora@kovaleskipr.com" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">nora@kovaleskipr.com</a></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House Approves Interior Spending Bill, Sending Calvert, Valadao, and Denham Riders that Would Thwart Due Process for the Delta to the Senate</font></strong></h3><p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.8em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box;">WASHINGTON D.C.</strong>&nbsp;– This afternoon, the House of Representatives&nbsp;<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2018/roll365.xml" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">passed</a>&nbsp;the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (H.R. 6147), sending three federal riders that would circumvent water rights laws and legal protections for the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary to the Senate.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.8em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The first rider&nbsp;<a href="http://www.restorethedelta.org/2018/05/15/interior-subcommittee-rider-that-attempts-to-void-state-litigation-on-delta-tunnels-will-be-seen-by-full-committee/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">written</a>&nbsp;by Congressman Ken Calvert (R-Corona) seeks to exempt the Delta tunnels, or CA WaterFix, project from further judicial review. Soon after, Congressman David Valadao (R-Hanford)&nbsp;<a href="http://www.restorethedelta.org/2018/07/09/restore-the-delta-pra-request-shows-kern-county-water-agency-and-mwd-worked-together-on-valadao-rider/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">introduced</a>&nbsp;another provision to the Appropriations bill that would cement a legislative ban on major California water infrastructure projects including the State Water Project and the Centrall Valley Project.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.8em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This week, Congressman Jeff Denham (R-Turlock)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article215014805.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">added</a>&nbsp;yet another amendment to the Appropriations bill, seeking to dismantle the State Water Board’s recent recommended updates to the Bay Delta plan as a means to secure more water deliveries to the Central Valley.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.8em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box;">Executive Director of Restore the Delta, Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla said,<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box;" /></strong>“We anticipated the Interior Appropriations bill would pass the House, but we maintain that it will be stopped in the Senate. We are so grateful that Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris voiced their opposition to these harmful legislative efforts to undo due process, water quality and quantity protections, and water rights for the Delta<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box;">.</strong>&nbsp;We would also like to thank Congressman John Garamendi and Congressman Jerry McNerney for their political courage that manifested into amendments that would have removed the language of these three harmful riders from the Appropriations bill. The House Committee on Rule’s decision to deny a House floor vote on these amendments&nbsp;s illustrates the deep corruption that controls California water management decisions.”</font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></span></a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1kpwulIBW78J:https://thevalleycitizen.com/the-denham-dossier-part-ii-the-real-water-grab/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:1kpwulIBW78J:https://thevalleycitizen.com/the-denham-dossier-part-ii-the-real-water-grab/%2B%26cd%3D1%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQIDAAegQIChAE" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; word-wrap: break-word;">Why&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;would a Beverly Hills billionaire donate big money to a congressman whose district is over two-hundred miles away from the billionaire’s business holdings? Because water flows uphill toward money and power, that’s why.</font></a><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Though he lives in a Beverly Hills mansion sometimes known as “Versailles II,” Stewart Resnick’s biggest land holdings are in Kern County and comprise some 180,000 acres, mostly&nbsp; in pistachios. According to&nbsp;<a href="https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Mark Arax</a>, “His 15 million trees in the San Joaquin Valley consume more than 400,000 acre-feet of water a year. The city of Los Angeles, by comparison, consumes 587,000 acre-feet.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Considering the recent drought, it’s miraculous that Resnick’s orchards are still alive and thriving. Even more miraculous, at least on the surface, is the&nbsp;<a href="https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">planting of more trees</a>&nbsp;during the height of the drought, including 79,000 acres of almonds and 73,000 acres of pistachios.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the mystery of Stewart Resnick’s ability to defy Mother Nature is due far less to a miracle than to business as usual in an arid land where the power of politics is an even greater force than a record drought. <b>Stuart Resnick gets water because he takes it from northern California by influencing public policy, and one of his chief water carriers in the U.S Congress is Jeff Denham.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, from 2011-13, despite his district’s distance from Resnick’s vast holdings in Kern County, Jeff Denham was in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.scpr.org/news/2014/04/10/43402/the-politics-of-drought-california-water-interests/#resnick-data" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">top ten recipients</a>&nbsp;of Resnick’s generous donations to members of both political parties—when it comes to water grabs, the game is both high stakes and bipartisan.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Resnick and other corporate farmers in the southern San Joaquin Valley </b>need federal and state political power to deliver water because they long ago drained the mighty rivers and ruined the aquifers in their own region. That’s why Westlands Water District, one of the major players in the south San Joaquin water grab, spends even more money on lobbyists and politicians than even Stewart Resnick—<a href="https://www.scpr.org/news/2014/04/10/43402/the-politics-of-drought-california-water-interests/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">some $600,000 in 2014 alone.</a></font></p><figure id="attachment_5518" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 24px 16px 0px; max-width: 100%; float: left; width: 300px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">San Joaquin River: water by court order only</font></figcaption></figure><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Northern California water has been diverted south for decades, and it’s all done at public expense using pumps, canals, and waterways paid for by tax dollars. Even while mainstream media and local politicians in Jeff Denham’s Congressional District 10 howl bloody murder about a state water grab, Oakdale Irrigation District’s (OID) business plan depends on sending water away from where it belongs here in the north and south to buyers like Westlands Water District.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And don’t think Oakdale’s wealthy farmers are unhappy about the arrangement. Among Jeff Denham’s biggest local supporters are OID farmers who get their irrigation water at prices below the cost of delivery. It’s all a nice arrangement for the big guys at the top of the water scheme, but sending water south while local wells run dry doesn’t make sense to the majority. It makes even less sense to municipal water users who keep seeing their&nbsp;<a href="https://www.modbee.com/news/article158528399.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">rates go up</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The San Joaquin Valley is still known as, “The Appalachia of the West,” in part because all that water, which is a public resource, goes south by way of public infrastructure and political power but never trickles down enough to provide a way out for too many Valley citizens living in poverty.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, when it comes to household use,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.capradio.org/articles/2018/03/13/around-100000-san-joaquin-valley-residents-live-without-clean-water-study-suggests-access-is-close/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">over 100,000 residents of the San Joaquin Valley</a>&nbsp;don’t even have safe drinking water, and many of them are the same hard-working people who tend nut orchards for water barons like Stewart Resnick. Because their own water isn’t safe, they’re forced to use bottled water at their own expense.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">None of them will ever get help from Jeff Denham the way he helps their wealthy landlords. In fact, Denham routinely votes against safe water standards that would protect streams, rivers, and groundwater from polluted runoff and effluent—Denham’s approval from the&nbsp;<a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/jeff-denham" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">League of Conservation voters</a>&nbsp;stands at 6%, while his neighboring Congressman, Jerry McNerney, is rated 94% positive. At&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.cleanwateraction.org/publications/2016-federal-scorecard-california" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Clean Water Action</a>,&nbsp;</em>Jeff Denham gets a 7% rating for 2016 and McNerney comes in at 100% approval.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sending northern California water south to arid landscapes in the Southern San Joaquin Valley and Los Angeles is a perversion of nature and the <b>oldest water grab of all</b>. Valley water should be for Valley citizens, not the favored few who keep politicians like Jeff Denham in office and so he can continue grabbing water at public expense.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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The southern San Joaquin Valley is where Stewart&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Resnick</span>&nbsp;and Boswell Farms have ..... written about&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">water</span>&nbsp;demands for&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">nut</span>&nbsp;orchards,<span style="font-weight: bold;">almonds</span>&nbsp;actually consume less&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">water</span>&nbsp;...</font></span></a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px;"><div data-hveid="CAcQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQFSgAMAJ6BAgHEAA" style=""><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/04/real-problem-almonds/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/04/real-problem-almonds/&ved=2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQFjACegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Here's the Real Problem With Almonds – Mother Jones</font></a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><div class="f hJND5c TbwUpd" style="height: 18px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal;">https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/04/real-problem-almonds/</cite></font><div class="action-menu ab_ctl" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="GHDvEf ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?ei=o3eFW5jdEsbesAXTzJKIDg&q=denham+water+almond+nut+resnick&oq=denham+water+almond+nut+resnick&gs_l=psy-ab.3...19187.27317.0.27856.27.26.1.0.0.0.278.3564.0j22j1.23.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..3.23.3414...0j33i21k1j33i160k1j0i22i30k1.0.O3qLNCVQEL4#" id="am-b2" aria-label="Result Options" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQ7B0wAnoECAcQAg" style="border-radius: 0px; 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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li></ol></div></div></div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kN9hwjcc5EwJ:https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/04/real-problem-almonds/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:kN9hwjcc5EwJ:https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/04/real-problem-almonds/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQIDACegQIBxAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="f" style="">Apr 15, 2015 -&nbsp;</span>So&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">almonds</span>&nbsp;must be worth all the&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">water</span>&nbsp;they require, right? ... Stewart&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Resnick</span>, chief of Paramount Farms, by far the state's largest&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">nut</span>&nbsp;grower,&nbsp;...</font></span></a><div class="TXwUJf" style=""><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kN9hwjcc5EwJ:https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/04/real-problem-almonds/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:kN9hwjcc5EwJ:https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/04/real-problem-almonds/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQIDACegQIBxAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Missing:&nbsp;<s>denham</s>&nbsp;‎| ‎Must include: ‎</font></a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22denham%22+water+almond+nut+resnick&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQ5t4CMAJ6BAgHEAc" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">denham</font></a></div></div><div jsl="$t t--ddbPTeIsNI;$x 0;" class="r-iVLzOGxWM4YI" data-ved="2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQ2Z0BMAJ6BAgHEAg" style=""><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px;"><div data-hveid="CAgQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQFSgAMAN6BAgIEAA" style=""><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/08/lynda-stewart-resnick-california-water/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/08/lynda-stewart-resnick-california-water/&ved=2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQFjADegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Meet the California Couple Who Uses More Water Than Every Home ...</font></a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; 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(Wonderful claims to have developed an&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">almond tree</span>&nbsp;that has 30 percent higher&nbsp;...</font></span></a><div class="TXwUJf" style=""><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oeCgXYezcTMJ:https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/08/lynda-stewart-resnick-california-water/+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:oeCgXYezcTMJ:https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/08/lynda-stewart-resnick-california-water/%2B%26cd%3D4%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQIDADegQICBAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Missing:&nbsp;<s>denham</s>&nbsp;‎| ‎Must include: ‎</font></a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22denham%22+water+almond+nut+resnick&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQ5t4CMAN6BAgIEAc" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">denham</font></a></div></div><div jsl="$t t--ddbPTeIsNI;$x 0;" class="r-iNkmyB9mOQwY" data-ved="2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQ2Z0BMAN6BAgIEAg" style=""><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px;"><div data-hveid="CAIQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQFSgAMAR6BAgCEAA" style=""><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust&ved=2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQFjAEegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">A Kingdom from Dust — The California Sunday Magazine</font></a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; 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I had in mind a magazine profile on Stewart, the&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Nut</span>&nbsp;King. ... Arrayed before him were small bowls of&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">almonds</span>, pistachios, and easy-to-peel&nbsp;...</font></span></a><div class="TXwUJf" style=""><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6TJ7cbwLpIcJ:https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:6TJ7cbwLpIcJ:https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust%2B%26cd%3D5%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQIDAEegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Missing:&nbsp;<s>denham</s>&nbsp;‎| ‎Must include: ‎</font></a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22denham%22+water+almond+nut+resnick&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQ5t4CMAR6BAgCEAc" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">denham</font></a></div></div><div jsl="$t t--ddbPTeIsNI;$x 0;" class="r-ituowejCYZyo" data-ved="2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQ2Z0BMAR6BAgCEAg"><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px;"><div data-hveid="CAUQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQFSgAMAV6BAgFEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article214016504.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article214016504.html&ved=2ahUKEwici6jgmJDdAhVEnq0KHaTYDfwQFjAFegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Fear is growing on California farms over Trump's trade war | The ...</font></a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><div class="f hJND5c TbwUpd" style="height: 18px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article214016504.html</font></cite></div><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="f" style="">Jun 28, 2018 -&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Almonds</span>, California's most lucrative crop, are threatened by President Trump's trade war. ... of U.S. goods, including California farm products such as fruit,&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">nuts</span>&nbsp;and wine. ... While&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Denham</span>&nbsp;and Valadao signed a May letter warning the administration .... California cannot wait on clean drinking<span style="font-weight: bold;">water</span>&nbsp;crisis.</font></span></div></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">denham $</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><table id="topContrib" class="tablesorter datadisplay" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0pt 15px; border: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 604px; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><tbody><tr class="even" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px;"><td style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fagundes Dairy</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$38,682</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; 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margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$18,000</font></td></tr><tr class="even" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px;"><td style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bert Crane Orchards</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$33,300</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$33,300</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr class="odd" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Copart Inc</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$31,700</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$31,700</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr class="even" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px;"><td style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blue Cross/Blue Shield</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$30,500</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$30,500</font></td></tr><tr class="odd" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Every Republican is Crucial PAC</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$30,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$30,000</font></td></tr><tr class="even" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px;"><td style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hilltop Ranch</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$29,955</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$29,955</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr class="odd" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tanimura & Antle</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$29,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$29,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr class="even" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px;"><td style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Blue Diamond Growers</b></font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$28,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$28,000</font></td></tr><tr class="odd" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Altria Group</b></font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$27,044</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$2,236</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$24,808</font></td></tr><tr class="even" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px;"><td style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Assn of&nbsp;<b>Chemical Distributors</b></font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$27,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$27,000</font></td></tr><tr class="odd" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bechtel Group</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$26,800</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$26,800</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr class="even" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px;"><td style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RC Farms</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$25,850</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$25,850</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr class="odd" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Granville Homes</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$25,050</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$25,050</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr class="even" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px;"><td style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">AT&T Inc</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$25,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$25,000</font></td></tr><tr class="odd" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">California Dairies Inc</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$25,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$25,000</font></td></tr><tr class="even" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px;"><td style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Home Depot</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$25,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$25,000</font></td></tr><tr class="odd" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Majority Cmte PAC</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$25,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$25,000</font></td></tr><tr class="even" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px;"><td style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meritage Healthcare</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$25,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$25,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr class="odd" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New York Life Insurance</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$23,500</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$23,500</font></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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