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Los Angeles area with 13 million inhabitants, is the economic powerhouse of California overall. Gov. Arnold S. famously had staff meetings in LA, less so in the

Los Angeles area with 13 million inhabitants, is the economic powerhouse of California overall. Gov. Arnold S. famously had staff meetings in LA, less so in the official capital city of Sacramento (gold era). San Diego county is unique to the area as a border to Mexico. San Diego County is largely separate from the others with heavy Federal presence. The multi-county region including LA County there is known as SCAG [0]. Since SCAG will have a hard time buying their way out of this long-term, self-inflicted quandary, they do indeed have reason to fret. https://scag.ca.gov/ https://scag.ca.gov/

biztos 4y ago
Governor Schwarzenegger was from LA (after being from Austria of course), still lives there (West Side I believe), and had/has most of his network there. I agree that LA is vastly more important than Sacramento but I doubt that was the reason for holding meetings there. When I am elected Governator, I will make my staff drive up Highway 49 and they will thank me for it.
myroon5 4y ago
California is one of the most extreme states in terms of how far the capital is from most of the population: https://vividmaps.com/the-distance-of-states-capitals-from-their-centers-of-population-and-geographical-centers/ https://vividmaps.com/the-distance-of-states-capitals-from-t... There are also discussions about more remote capitals being less accountable
exhilaration 4y ago
I'm curious about why SCAG has failed to plan for this disaster while the much smaller San Diego county has managed to get a desalination plant up and running https://nyti.ms/3yuTUz4 https://nyti.ms/3yuTUz4 From what I can tell this is the only desal plant on the West Coast which seems crazy.
- cagey 4y ago
  "The project to build a desalination plant in San Diego County, California commenced in 1993 after five years of drought."[1] "Before 2008, San Diego County historically had been a Republican stronghold."[2] [1] first sentence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%22Bud%22_Lewis_Carlsbad_Desalination_Plant#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%22Bud%22_Lewis_Carlsba... [2] first sentence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_San_Diego_County https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_San_Diego_County
joe_the_user 4y ago
80% of water use in California is agriculture. Even in residential use, ornamental agriculture and lawns are a huge part of the use. If LA removes it's plants, it's ability to operate as a city should continue. It's California agriculture that's in trouble and California's archaic water rights laws make this worse. Everything about the crises of today brings up the current memes - "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" + "this is fine".

biztos 4y ago

Governor Schwarzenegger was from LA (after being from Austria of course), still lives there (West Side I believe), and had/has most of his network there. I agree that LA is vastly more important than Sacramento but I doubt that was the reason for holding meetings there. When I am elected Governator, I will make my staff drive up Highway 49 and they will thank me for it.

myroon5 4y ago

California is one of the most extreme states in terms of how far the capital is from most of the population: https://vividmaps.com/the-distance-of-states-capitals-from-their-centers-of-population-and-geographical-centers/ https://vividmaps.com/the-distance-of-states-capitals-from-t... There are also discussions about more remote capitals being less accountable

exhilaration 4y ago

I'm curious about why SCAG has failed to plan for this disaster while the much smaller San Diego county has managed to get a desalination plant up and running https://nyti.ms/3yuTUz4 https://nyti.ms/3yuTUz4 From what I can tell this is the only desal plant on the West Coast which seems crazy.

cagey 4y ago
"The project to build a desalination plant in San Diego County, California commenced in 1993 after five years of drought."[1] "Before 2008, San Diego County historically had been a Republican stronghold."[2] [1] first sentence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%22Bud%22_Lewis_Carlsbad_Desalination_Plant#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%22Bud%22_Lewis_Carlsba... [2] first sentence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_San_Diego_County https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_San_Diego_County

joe_the_user 4y ago

80% of water use in California is agriculture. Even in residential use, ornamental agriculture and lawns are a huge part of the use. If LA removes it's plants, it's ability to operate as a city should continue. It's California agriculture that's in trouble and California's archaic water rights laws make this worse. Everything about the crises of today brings up the current memes - "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" + "this is fine".