So we get the best candidates money can buy in this country at all levels. A dark cloud looms over our country and the democratic republic is waning.

Money is not the best answer.

Kremen got my vote: he has solutions. What has Schmidt done? Never heard of the guy until this election. Although they're always talking of a drought, it didn't hit hard until this year, and what were the solutions? Raise rates, ask residents to use less, and place restrictions on outdoor watering. Not exactly a well thought out solution! We can do better than that.

OK with me if he used his own money; in fact I think it's a good thing -- he's not beholden to special interests.

Inadequate storage is only part of the problem.

I wish any of these people would influence Sacramento to impose higher efficiency standards on irrigated agriculture. Squeezing the 10% the residential use is just symbolic. Irrigated agriculture is 70-80% of the use, depending on the time of year, and half of that water gets wasted through evaporation.

It's taboo to deal with facts anymore though, because profitable welfare farming is as American as Chevys and dry levees.

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