Sorry I don't have a lot of time. I've been very busy lately. But growing up in Colorado I just saw the following:
First.
Denver Post and Water
and
ColoradoPols and Water
Thanks to FundaMental Transformation
Please digg this. McCain will lose Colorado if we get this out.
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From the first article:
Memo to: John McCain.
From: Five million thirst-crazed Coloradans.
Subject: Forget about winning our nine electoral votes next November. We don't vote for water rustlers in this state; we tar and feather them!
Yes, fellow citizens of the state whose official motto is "Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting," John McCain has thunk the unthinkable — and proposed renegotiating the 1922 Colorado River Compact.
To quote from Charles Ashby's story in the Friday Pueblo Chieftain:
"The water compact that Colorado and other upper basin states have with California and Arizona should be renegotiated," U.S. Sen. John McCain said Thursday.
"In a telephone interview with The Pueblo Chieftain, the presumptive GOP candidate for president said the water sharing agreement reached in 1922 between seven Western states doesn't take into account increases in population and changing water needs."
You can read the rest of McCain's politically suicidal ramblings at McCain: Renegotiate 1922 Western water compact. Suffice to say, they aren't pretty.
As a senator, McCain has long represented a state, Arizona, that would love to steal Colorado's water. But now, he wants our votes. Apparently, nobody bothered to brief the candidate who Paris Hilton called "that wrinkly, white-haired guy" that stealing Colorado's water to benefit Arizona, California and Nevada isn't as popular an idea in Colorado as it
is in Arizona, California and Nevada.
Who knew?
As Ashby notes: "The Colorado River compact allocates 7.5 million acre-feet of water to California, Nevada and Arizona. Anything left over is split between Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming."
From the second article:
Water experts of all stripes were left questioning the prudence of Republican presidential candidate and Arizona Sen. John McCain after he told a newspaper the critical 1922 water compact between seven Western states should be revisited.
"I don't think there's any doubt the major, major issue is water and can be as important as oil. So the compact that is in effect, obviously, needs to be renegotiated over time amongst the interested parties," McCain told The Pueblo Chieftain. "I think that there's a movement amongst the governors to try, if not, quote, renegotiate, certainly adjust to the new realities of high growth, of greater demands on a scarcer resource."
The Colorado River Compact governs how seven Western states, including Colorado and Arizona, share the Colorado River.
"Conditions have changed dramatically," McCain said...
John Redifer, a member of the Colorado Water Conservation Board and political science professor at Mesa State College, said McCain's position makes sense in light of Arizona's needs, but not as a national policy.
"I wonder if he is running for president of the United States or for something in Arizona when he makes those statements," Redifer said. "I'm really kind of surprised that someone running for president ... that needs to carry the state of Colorado would make a statement like that."
Colorado's statesmen also questioned McCain's plan, with Congressman John Salazar, D-Colo., saying he is "totally disappointed in McCain."
Colorado is a swing state! What is this moron thinking? This could lose the state completely! Please rec and spread this around.
This would make a great commercial for Colorado but especially in Southern Part of Colorado!
UPDATE:
Okay, just got this from another Kossack:Colorado Newspapers I wish I had direct emails, but I encourage you to send to the papers in Denver, Fort Colloins, Alamosa (large college there) Pueblo, and Colorado Springs
Please click here and send this diary and links around. Digg. Do whatevery you can. Take 5 minutes of your day and try to make Colorado completely blue.
Lets break this story. And of course, I will post our old favorites:
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We must/need to spread this aroud so:
If anyone has media contacts in Colorado please let me know. I will update. I listed some below for the general media. If we do our thing here we can make Colorado solid blue.