George Skelton: Newsom cares more about almond growers than California's salmon fishery

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom bills himself as a protector of wildlife, so you wouldn't think he'd take water from baby salmon and give it to almonds.

Or to pistachios or cotton or alfalfa.

Especially when California was just drenched with the wettest three-week series of storms on record and was headed into another powerful soaking of snow and rain.

But Newsom and his water officials still contend we're suffering a drought — apparently it's a never-ending drought. So, they used that as a reason last week to drastically cut river flows needed by migrating