Excerpted from the Lodi News Sentinal
By News-Sentinel Staff
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Assemblywoman Alyson Huber hand-delivered some 2,000 postcards from peripheral canal opponents to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office Monday morning.
"The governor showed how out of touch he is with my communities when, just hours after the water package was passed, he touted his plans to build a canal through the (Sacramento-San Joaquin) Delta at a business event in Stockton," Huber said in a written statement. "He just doesn't get it — he might as well walk into a Giants game wearing a Dodgers jersey."
Huber said she opposes the water package because it creates a new layer of bureaucrats who will make decisions on water, including the details of a canal, that will impact the communities in her district.
Huber authored a bill to require a full analysis of the peripheral canal and require legislative approval, but it was killed without a hearing, she said. Huber plans to resubmit the bill in the near future.
Excerpted from The Record
By Daniel Thigpen
Record Staff Writer
November 10, 2009
SACRAMENTO - They haven't come together on much lately, but there was one thing Assemblywoman Alyson Huber and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office could agree on Monday: Plastic crates full of postcards are heavy.
The Democratic lawmaker, whose district includes portions of San Joaquin County and the Delta, continued her public protest of Schwarzenegger's support for a peripheral canal with an early morning photo op outside his Capitol office, where she hand-delivered an estimated 2,000 postcards from concerned constituents.
The postage-paid correspondence - detached from anti-canal mailers Huber circulated late last month - came from all over her district spanning San Joaquin, Sacramento, El Dorado and Amador counties.
They carried brief messages and many exclamation points, from "impeach!" and "is he crazy!!" to "this idea is simply ridiculous!"
Huber again chided the governor for his pro-canal comments last week during a visit to Stockton, where the idea of sending water past, rather than through, the Delta has virtually zero support.
Excerpted from: Mother Lode News
By Mike Roberts
October 11, 2009
EL DORADO HILLS - Residents here turned out in force last week for a pair of informative transportation meetings - and turned the heat up on an issue that's been simmering in the little understood Transportation Commission since former El Dorado County Supervisors Rusty Dupray and Helen Baumann were in office.
Last Monday El Dorado Hills was brought up to speed on the large road projects in the area in a prime time Department of Transportation show-and-tell. A day later an estimated 160 residents and government officials overflowed the El Dorado Hills Library meeting room. Most were there to lobby for greater representation on the county Transportation Commission.
The county Transportation Commission is not a county agency. It lobbies for and eventually "programs" federal and state road and trail dollars, which make up less than half of Western Slope road spending annually.
The six member commission is currently made up of three county supervisors, two of whom represent El Dorado Hills: John Knight and Ray Nutting. Three Placerville City Council members also sit on the commission, one of whom is Jack Sweeney, who represents Placerville's district.
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