Opinion: More Water Now ballot measure is a money grab
Whoever coined the phrase “Whisky is for drinking, water is for fighting” didn’t have things quite right. In California, water is for scamming. The newest example is a majestically cynical ploy being foisted on taxpayers by some of the state’s premier water hogs, in the guise of a proposed ballot measure titled the “Water Infrastructure Funding Act of 2022” — or, as its promoters call it, the More Water Now initiative. The measure’s backers need to gather nearly 1 million signatures to place the measure on the November 2022 ballot. That process has just begun, and its outcome is uncertain.
-Written by L.A. Times columnist Michael Hiltzik.