Jared Huffman: “The settlement agreement calls for nearly $400 million in a taxpayer bailout for the Westlands Water District.”

I will fight this, both for Yosemite and for every treasured park that would be up for grabs if this domino falls.

I am thinking a lot these days about the final unraveling of the Weimar Republic in the early 1930s.

When people ask what will we do, my answer is simple. We’ll use those tools. We’ll act like the Congress.

Folding our hand now or in the lame duck makes no sense when we can keep working on this and, in a few more months, have a much better deal that works for everyone.