George Skelton: Gov. Newsom hopes to broker a peace treaty in California's water war. Some worry he'll cave to Trump
by George Skelton, Los Angeles Times
Feb 26, 2020
3 minutes
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Gavin Newsom may be piloting a lifeboat that will rescue the sinking California Delta. Or he may be in water over his head on a doomed mission.
The governor gets angry with skeptics who say he's being delusional. But history sides with the doubters.
"I love reading all that, 'Hey, he's naive. He's being misled,'" Newsom recently told a forum sponsored by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California, his voice rising with a touch of sarcasm.
"It means we're doing something a little different."
No California water hole
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