The Ayes of Texas

Calìfornia
The Ayes of Texas

Us, too!

By Stephen L. Wilmeth

  

            The water dispute between the states of New Mexico and Texas is sorta’ between the states of New Mexico and Texas.

            The sorta’ explanation of the dust up references the fact that an Attorney General of the former decided his state was getting the short end of the head gate and filed a complaint. He believed too much water was flowing to the latter and he was going to set things straight. The problem is he is long gone and the rest of us are going to suffer through the brouhaha of his making. And, brouhaha it will likely be. To really think that New Mexico can prevail against Texas needs only to be set in juxtaposition to a review and outcome of the Alamo.

            I am not betting, but I am not counting on my home state prevailing on my behalf because my behalf isn’t represented by my home state. Yes, yes, I live in the Land of Enchantment, but the water I apply to my irrigated pasture belongs to Texas!

            Getting confused, are you?

            By compact, water flowing south into the Rio Grande out of New Mexico’s largest impoundment, Elephant Butte, is technically Texas water. Two major irrigation districts take receipt of that water, Elephant Butte Irrigation District in New Mexico and El Paso Water Improvement District from the state line south into the El Paso Valley. Farmers in New Mexico, who have rights to apply water up to about 91,000 acres, find themselves in limbo. If New Mexico prevails in the suit, they could wind up with less water. If Texas prevails, they could wind up with not only less water, but have to share in the payment of penalties paid to Texas for overuse of water in the past.

            In effect, they are irrigators without a state. Moreover, they have been put in a situation of being citizens without a state to defend them.

            Calìfornia

            The California I know, the Central Valley, is essentially a more breath taking version of the Mesilla Valley of the Rio Grande. Rather than being 2-5 miles wide and 60 miles long, it is 20-60 miles wide and 400 miles long. Arguably, it is the grandest single farming resource in the world. As my friend, the late Norman Graham used to say, “It is elegant dirt.”

            If you are not aware of the political s**thole the land stewards there have been drug through by direct oversight of their legislators and the Ninth District Star Chamber, you have been watching the wrong cartoon channels. It has been an orchestrated environmental theater of horrors.

Although, all water districts have felt the regulatory orgy, the “West Side”, the region created through direct federal efforts and served by Westland’s Water District, has been at the center of the assault by the government. If there is a scale of Norm’s elegant index, the soils and conditions of that area of the Valley must be considered the crème de la crème. It is a fantastic growing area and the immensity of it surpasses the agriculture potential of entire states. To watch it dismantled and to see American farmers there summarily destroyed is simply incomprehensible. No civilized society should be subjected to the actions of their government in this manner, but that has become the method of madness in Calìfornia. Sacramento has become the encampment of the liberal coastal slobsters they who made drinking bottled water fashionable, toting plastic grocery sacks tony, and smoking dope legal. Now, they are pointing middle fingers at shoppers for being seen with plastic sacks, drinking raw water for organic attributes, levying fines on the distribution of one time drinking straws, and smoking more dope. They are also trying to get a constitutional amendment passed to extract half of the tax savings from the citizenry derived from the Trump tax plan.

It is no wonder that 70% of the state, the remainder of the state sans Sacramento County over to Marin County and down through coastal California to Los Angeles, is pushing for legal secession with the intent to becoming New California. This effort hasn’t been a preference, either. It has been a necessity. If this greater part of the state remains under the insanity of the permanent green hordes, it will be destroyed just like the rest of the state. Businesses simply cannot withstand the assault and the looting.

There isn’t enough money in the world to satisfy the insatiable appetite of its ruling crazies.

The Ayes of Texas

 Article IV, Section 3(1) of the Constitution sets forth the process of forming a state. Notwithstanding the case law and legal precedence that would be used to negate the original law, a new state can be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of another state if there is consent of the state legislatures and the Congress. New California leadership would do well to thumb a ride to Austin and visit with the Texas governor and six key legislators. The point of the discussion would be to seek asylum within the great state of Texas not as a perfunctory dependent, but a productive, powerful citizenry. Not only would New California be saved from political execution, it would be merged under a Texas constitution that made property ownership an original and conditional mandate for statehood.

A contingent of New New Mexicans should also be in attendance. They would be representatives of those New Mexicans who are unofficially, but affectively defendants in the action by their own state as a condition of their legal reliance on Texas water. Their argument could proceed along the line of surrendering their pseudo citizenship for that of true Texans with full rights and privileges of the Lone Star State.

All that is needed is money to buy the respective liberal legislators and seek … the “ayes of Texas”!

Stephen L. Wilmeth is a rancher from southern New Mexico. “So goes our water and our property… so goes our allegiance!”