POLITICAL THINKING FROM SANTA FE & HALLOWEEN WEIRDNESS

Edited from a report by Carol Pittman

Eileen Dodds from the San Augustin Water

 Coalition attended the Aug 31-Sept 1 meeting

 of the Legislature's Interim Committee on

 Water and Natural Resources, and listened to

 some informal discussion about the

 WATER GRAB.

Here's her synopsis of what was said by some

of the members:
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Representative Bealquin "Bill" Gomez, District 34

(Dona Ana), said that he was not in favor of transferring 

"that much water and hurting the small communities."

  He further stated

"This transfer will likely impair existing water rights,

and I will not let it happen"  In a personal email message

to this writer Rep. Gomez reported that he had "read out

the section of the reasons the state engineer could use to

turn down a request to move water from one region to

another.  It states that if the change would harm the rights

of other people in the area it would be one of the main reasons

to turn down the request for transfer of water."
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Bill McCamley, who represents the 33rd District

(Dona Ana), stated that he wants to see subsidence studies

first.  State Engineer Blaine admitted that subsidence

would be a problem, but that no study was planned.
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Senator Cisco McSorley from Dist 16 (Bernalillo),

asked for the OSE to do a psychological impact study

of the effect on the citizens losing the water.  He pointed out

that there were multi-generational families ranching

the Plains, and that they had hopes of their children and

grandchildren continuing the tradition.

He is opposed to those families "losing their heritage."
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Senator Peter Wirth, Santa Fe, asked about states
that had legislation that put large transfers in the
hands of the legislators.
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And last, but not least, 

Representative Candy Ezzell, a rancher from

District 58 (Chavez) stated:

"I'll fight this transfer with every bone in my body."

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 A Note to Representative Ezzell: 

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The Golden Spur Saloon's Halloween Party!

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 “The dead weren’t scary. 

It was the living you had to watch out for.” .

Eileen Wilks, Mortal Ties

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WE HAVE A DATE WITH THE DEVIL!

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The next round with the foreigners
 is now scheduled:

Thursday, November 12, at 1:15 pm

Socorro County Courthouse

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We'll have more up about the issue at hand -

the who-what-why - but basically it's a legal strategy 

by the enemy: trying get an earlier decision

that ruled in the good guys' favor

to be set aside. 
It's legal wrangling.
This is NOT a hearing on their latest application.

More coming.

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GOOD NEWS!
Some members of the New Mexico Legislature's
Interim Committee on Water and Natural Resources
have all made recent statements questioning or
outright opposing the WATER GRAB.
 Eileen Dodds of the Water Coalition got some
terrific information at their Aug 31-Sept 1 meeting.
We'll have some quotes and more in our next posting.

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Drought Fears Subside -
LLC Shuts Up!

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 Compare the above to the situation

in July of 2013 - 27 months ago.

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At this point in 2013, and for months and

months following, the foreigners kept up the

salesman's spiel that only NEW sources of

water would save us from the drought,

such as, or most especially, the aquifer they
 want to tap, the San Augustin Plains aquifer.

Our only hope was to welcome the

thieves and end up buying what was ours

to begin with.  What bullshit.

  There were other new sources of water,

and so we tapped into these other "reserves" 

 one might say.  Keep the devil out of here.

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They've now shut their traps about drought. 
We pray further that they'll eventually shut up
about all of it, and stay in (or go back to)
 their homelands,
 where fraud, theft, and lying must be typical 
 national pastimes. 
 At least among the high and mighty....
at least (or especially) when it involves Americans. 
It certainly appears as such.

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 Southwest Colorado just got off to a

 good start for this year's Rio Grande snowpack.

Pray for Snow and get the skis out!

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