Alan Autry guest Hannity airs from Valley's west side


The shortage of water on the west side of the valley was plunged into the national spotlight Thursday as the conservative commentator Sean Hannity broadcast his Fox News Channel show "Hannity" live on a farm near Huron.

Several thousand people cheered him as he made fun of "radical environmentalists", saying they protect the delta smelt on the needs of farmers and their workers.

Hannity also reprimanded the president Barack Obama and the Democratic leadership in Washington, challenging them to "turn its back on the water."

"It is becoming a desert of dust here," he said.

Among his clients are former Fresno Mayor Alan Autry, comedian Paul Rodriguez, president of the California Latino Water Coalition and Reps. Devin Nunes, R-Visalia, George Radanovich, R-Mariposa, and Jim Costa, D-Fresno.

The crowd applauded Autry, Rodriguez, Nunes and Radanovich, but many of them booed Costa.

"Turning off the water is not only bad policy," said Autry. "This is domestic terrorism."

Autry said that Obama knows what is happening in the valley, but was ignored.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said satellite Hannity failed to open water because it is a federal problem. He made the federal judges, saying that the protection of fish and not farmers or farm workers, "the food on our plates."

The mission of the firm, Mark Anderson, whose family grows the distribution of several thousands of hectares of vegetables and cotton north of Huron. The field was planted in cotton last year, Anderson said, but stopped due to lack of water.

The drastic reductions in water deliveries from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta have Westlands Water District, where producers expect only 10% of the contractual allocation of federal water this year - hit the lowest for over 30 years.

In addition to pumping restrictions to protect the delta and the smell of salmon have made it difficult for farmers to receive excess water from northern California, who are obliged to keep the pump in low quality of a solution saline groundwater cultures only.

"I'm happy, it's serious for the national exhibition of the question," said Nunes. "Congress has something to do. We must obtain a waiver, the pumps operate in the short term. The Congress can not ignore this problem because they have been there.
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