And note this:
Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020 having to deal with the earlier meddling of Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is very reminiscent of then-Gov. Jerry Brown, during the state’s water crises in the previous decade, having to deal with the mid-1970s efforts of then-Gov. Jerry Brown to deliberately hamstring future generations of Californians. Or as Victor Davis Hanson wrote in 2015, “Brown and other Democratic leaders will never concede that their own opposition in the 1970s (when California had about half its present population) to the completion of state and federal water projects, along with their more recent allowance of massive water diversions for fish and river enhancement, left no margin for error in a state now home to 40 million people.”