Now that is novel, if I understand what you are saying. YES! I would be the First to Vote that California secede from the United States of America...with a deeded right of way for the rest of the country to receive goods and no Californian need trample on that right of way.

This would be done in three weeks or forever ignored n China.

Bingo Bango bongo.

Shush ........don't let anyone know that Dams hold back large amounts of water!

What about secession? Can I vote now for that state to leave the country?

Hi foster717,
A good evaluation but the brain dead do not reason.
They are off to another fundraiser with a sign that has global warming causes drought but the drought is crossed out and rain replaces it.

Yea, with money and resources "We Need Most"!

Tired of paying for incompetence and stupidity.

Now the idiot should start unraveling the rest of the garbage, socialist, fascist legislation that is killing the state! Perhaps he now understands that his from of (pardon the expression) "brain-dead", Progressive populism is a non-starter and a detriment to life on this planet (especially in CA)!

Backfiring loony libtard nonsense is always a possibility.
I just find that specific bit of law citing cover up deflection to be California ironic.
And only a minority of voting Californians would be pissed over being kept in the dark about government incompetence.
The majority evidently thinks the bigger the better government always to be a wonderful thing. Just like allowing Sharia Law inside the USA.
Baa!

Funny...then you think that this will backfire and the majority nitwit voters in Cali will grouse about Islamophobia rather than being pissed that they are being kept in the dark about government incompetence! Well ...they are apparently "Sheeple"!

I get what you're saying, but dino does not think the majority of California voters will care for an excuse that pertains to "security reasons" they'd construe as Islamophobic.

"See they know their permits and regulations are a shackle on progress."

Only because in this case they are inconvenient to handing out the massive contracts laden with incentives because everyone knows you shouldn't pass up a good emergency!

I particularly liked the line......."Croyle's agency has since asked federal authorities to withhold from the public future reports by the expert panel. The state is citing a law that classifies major dams as critical infrastructure subject to possible terror attack, and that allows certain information about the dams to be withheld."

Yeh...for security reasons!!!...They just don't want the taxpayers to know that they failed to properly design build and maintain the spillway. Even with the Bullshit permitting, review and environmental impact crap-ola that was done originally.

Yes subjecting them to the realities of OVER regulation. You would have my vote if I lived there.

Typical government bs. If I were unfortunate enough to be an elected official in Cali. (same odds as Hillary telling the truth), I would make them stick to their own regulations. Too bad, so sad that the downstream areas would potentially get wiped out because of GOVERNMENT OVER-REGULATION! Maybe someone would put two and two together and realize the huge negative impacts of GOVERNMENT OVER-REGULATION!

Breaking their arms doing it.

Hope and spare change.
The approval of the emergency declaration will provide money for the area and authorizes the use of federal equipment and resources to alleviate the impact of the dam incident. That allows the state to potentially get up to 75 percent federal reimbursement for "required emergency protective measures," which a Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesperson said includes things such as cots, water, blankets and food for sheltering evacuees but not the cost of repairing the dam's troubled emergency spillway.

The FEMA spokesperson said the California governor would need to put in another request to the president to cover cost-sharing on spillway repairs.

Separately, the major disaster declaration was made for the deadly January storms that caused flooding and mudslides. It also will allow FEMA to provide funds to help with debris removal as well as repair work to bridges, roads and other public facilities.

"I want to thank FEMA for moving quickly to approve our requests," Gov. Jerry Brown said in a statement. "This federal aid will get money and resources where it's needed most."

If this gets done they will pat themselves on the back for their great work and go back to business as usual.

I hope no federal funds are being used to pay for it.