From the LAtimes.com:

 It’s power that Democrats have been incapable or unwilling to exercise anyway. And it’s not like they’re giving it to Republicans.

They’re attempting to create an independent governing body to decide how to restore the ecosystem and remodel the waterworks of the deteriorating Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, a major source of drinking water for Southern Californians and irrigation for San Joaquin Valley farms.

Wealth, livelihoods and ways of life are at stake. Some of California’s most combative interests — agricultural, business, urban, environmental — have been battling over the delta for decades. Because these stakeholders can’t agree, neither can the politicians whose policies tend to be shaped by their patron interests. That’s the system.

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