He didn’t even use the “p” word

Senator Joe Simitian’s bill to get moving on “alternative conveyance” (remember what that means?) was shelved today, according to the Sacramento Bee. Assemblymember Lois Wolk is quoted as saying:

“We don’t know what will fix this yet … so to leap to the conclusion that it is a conveyance facility and to focus attention on that I think truly is premature,”

which seems more than a bit disingenuous, seeing as how we’ve been doing nothing with the Delta but studying it (and sucking water out of it, of course) for the last 30 years.

But maybe this will be the study to end all studies, the report of the Blue Ribbon Task Force. Holding your breath?