The proposal from recall candidate Kevin Paffrath seems emblematic of the nonsensical recall effort itself, columnist George Skelton writes.
The award for dumbest idea of the recall election goes to the rookie Democrat who proposed building a water pipeline from California to the Mississippi River.“No one in their right mind would want to pay for it,” said Jay Lund, a civil engineering professor and co-director of the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences. “But this is a recall election. You have to expect some silly ideas that don’t make a lot of sense.
The wacky proposal seems emblematic of the nonsensical recall effort itself — the notion of wasting $276 million in tax money on a special election because opportunistic Republicans want to oust the Democratic governor one year before his term expires and he must run for reelection anyway.Quirky ideas like floating icebergs down from the Arctic. Or importing water from the Great Lakes in railroad tanker cars. Or building a pipeline to the Columbia River through Oregon and Washington.
YouTube star and Democratic political novice Kevin Paffrath proposed the Mississippi River pipeline last weekThe other debaters were Republicans. Paffrath was invited — for the first time in the debate series — because he’s the highest-polling Democrat among 46 replacement candidates listed on the ballot.
Paffrath, 29, has never held elective office and is trying to start atop California’s political ladder. A Ventura County real estate investor, Paffrath has 1.7 million followers on his YouTube channel, which offers financial advice.“Now, this sounds outlandish, but we have a massive problem,” Paffrath said during the debate when asked what he’d do about the drought.
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