Rep. Devin Nunes’ aggressive statements are tearing apart our community.
For more than 15 years, I have enjoyed dinners with my neighbors, sharing the fruits of their farms and the fish from my husband’s catch. He is a salmon fishermen, whose industry has been completely closed for the past two years. Like others in Fresno who earn their livelihood from salmon, or simply enjoy the sport of fishing, we have been deeply hurt by Rep. Nunes’ divisive comments that have asked our neighbors to blame us for our water problems.
Rep. Nunes wants an easy scapegoat for a complex problem, and has found one with fishermen. Instead of drawing attention to an aging water infrastructure, a messy water rights system, or lack of recycling and conservation programs, he is targeting two federal environmental orders to keep enough water in the Sacrament-San Joaquin Delta for salmon to live in, even though they concern just a drop in the bucket of the amount of water that flows to farms.
My neighbors and I come together in the face of a shared hardship, not turn against each other in blame. Rep. Nunes is just playing political games, not representing the Fresno I know.
Janet Milford
Squaw Valley
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