Gavin Newsom launched a new water policy this week that does almost nothing for water. Perhaps he thinks it will help his nascent presidential campaign.
Newsom’s biggest weakness as a presidential candidate is his record. He cannot point to any major achievements after two terms.
That’s the real drought his plan aims to address.
Newsom called his policy the “most ambitious water plan in California history.” If so, the obvious question is why he waited until the last months of his administration to launch it.
And the equally obvious answer is that he is focused on the 2028 presidential campaign, not on solving California’s chronic water problems.
His policy is even called “California Water Plan 2028.” Why 2028, two years after he leaves office? The question answers itself.
Of course, nothing that ambitious can be done in two years in California. Even massive water bonds take forever to spend.
It has taken all eight years of Newsom’s governorship for him to line up the approvals for the Sites Reservoir, the first major water storage project in half a century.
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