[env-trinity] Article links on drought legislation

[Tom Stokely]

the SacBee editorial board urges both California Senators to open the doors in the negotiating room to all stakeholders -

http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article4023580.html

and the LA Times editors criticize the exclusive back-room negotiations -
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-water-policy-congress-california-20141120-story.html

and Mother Jones does a story about the secret negotiations that includes some good recent history of the so-called drought relief legislation -
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/11/feinstein-secret-water-deal-drought-california

Restore the Delta has updated the video and the link dealing with the secret negotiations; go here -
 http://bit.ly/videoactionalert

and Dan Bacher writes about the secret deal-making which he says would primarily benefit folks like poor Westlands (or as Mother Jones calls them, “Big Pistachio”) -
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/18/1345836/-Secret-Feinstein-drought-relief-bill-will-eviscerate-fish-protections#
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