Republican politician defends out of state corporation against local farmers and ranchers over water

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4. Surprised? In a state where Republicans have controlled the legislature since the 1940's?

Corporations and big business have had access to everything they've ever wanted in Arizona. They'd turn over their last drop of water, give them tax cuts so they don't have to pay for the damage they do or help the communities from whom they are stealing water and property value.

And not only do the deadbeat county supervisors try to make excuses for the corporate thieves, they won't stand with their constituents, some of whom have had their farms and ranches for three or four generations. The supervisor in this story is from one of those local, three or four generation families who stand to lose everything if that aquifer dries up, but she's puttering around with conspiracy theories, trying to prove that machine ballot counts, which were 100% verified in her county, are rigged. Stupidity to the tenth power.

It's not been that long ago that the state robbed the native Americans of their water rights, while two of the reservoirs where the agricultural water comes from are on their land.