Wasn’t Rodriguez the guy that did the show with Hannity about the central valley farmers getting screwed by the smelt?
Yep!
He got the pointy end of the democrat stick when they shut off his water making his multi-million dollar property worth pennies.
Long Live the Smelts /s
Yep and he converted to Republican as a result and recently endorsed Romney.
If you have a half hour to kill, listen to Rodriguez’s speech from 2009 in which he talks about the farmers and why he became a Republican. There is a lot of good common sense and the guy is speaking from the heart. He also makes the comment “I’m not a Mexican. I am an American.”
Rodriguez owns considerable land in the Central Valley that lost irrigation water to a lawsuit brought forward by Western Watersheds run by Robert Kennedy Jr. They said the Delta smelt needed the water more. Delta smelt are NOT a native California fish & have absolutely no commercial value.
Nothing like a carpetbagger from 3000 miles away destroying millions of acres of productive land and bankrupting hundreds of farmers.