DiFi's radical centrism & Other Stories Open Thread

by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

A few links:

• DiFi sent a letter to Legislative Leaders to start plundering our rivers, or else! Listen, I think we do need to retool our water system. The pipes in SF are decades old, some even a century or more. We don't have enough water for SoCal and its out of place lawns, but building a peripheral canal without permission from the voters or just randomly building dams is not the answer.  We need a complete water plan, not some haphazard attempt to mollify the farmers and the exurbanites who like their lawns. These things take time. And DiFi's letter undercuts real Democrats in California. Not cool, DiFi, not cool at all.
• The Arnold-backed redistricting initiative is rapidly becoming a GOP-backed initiative as Democratic donors are not so thriled with it. CC Times. Perhaps that's because Democrats understand that the plan gives power to Republicans that didn't earn it at the ballot box.
• The Kevin Johnso-Heather Fargo fight in Sacto is getting interesting quickly. The SacBee writes a thank-you letter to the former NBA All-Star for entering the race, and then Fargo attacks him with old (resolved) tax issues. Not a good start to the re-election campaign for the incumbent.

This is an open thread.