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hunter

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14. The Central Valley was lakes and swampland.

Sun Sep 30, 2018, 11:36 PM

Sep 2018

Tulare Lake was the largest lake west of the Mississippi.

It was drained to create farms.

My grandma and her sister were from a California Coastal dairy family. They didn't want anything to do with the dairy industry as young women and ran wild in Hollywood starting in their teens, which is why I'm not a dairyman.

My grandma's family had no respect for Central Valley dairy farmers who were more recent immigrants to California, from places like Portugal, and then later as Dust Bowl refugees settling "out in the Tules."

I try not to continue her prejudices, but Republican California isn't easy to love.

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DEVIN NUNES'S FAMILY FARM IS HIDING A POLITICALLY EXPLOSIVE SECRET [View all] RandySF Sep 2018 OP

Spoiler: Nunes' family depends on undocumented workers to run their dairy diva77 Sep 2018 #1

+1. Don't tell anyone dalton99a Sep 2018 #2

Not so much a spoiler as a puzzler is the farm business was secretly moved, paper trail coverd. Fred Sanders Sep 2018 #10

that was interesting, thanks Grasswire2 Sep 2018 #3

He's a minor partner in Alpha Omega, the Napa Valley winery Brother Buzz Sep 2018 #8

Wow... jcsg Sep 2018 #4

Looks like ICE doesn't hit members of Congress with NCjack Sep 2018 #5

Anyone know if he still has a legal home in Cal? dixiegrrrrl Sep 2018 #6

K&R, just did the excerpting thing & e-mailed it out to pertinent parties: UTUSN Sep 2018 #7

ICE has been to the Nunes farm and checked this open secret? Then what are you waiting for? Fred Sanders Sep 2018 #11

I Lived in the Northern San Joaquin Valley for 18 Years Ccarmona Sep 2018 #9

The Central Valley was lakes and swampland. hunter Sep 2018 #14

Andrew Janz for Congress: catbyte Sep 2018 #12

... Scurrilous Sep 2018 #13