Oct 1, 2026 · 43 min · 11 segments
California’s two-year legislative session is over, and Senator Kelly Seyarto joins Darcy and Darcy to share his perspective on how it ended. At the time of recording, the Governor had over 700 bills…
Kelly SeyartoGuest
Darcy BurkeHostDarcy VilleryHost
And the State Water Board just cut their water rights in half, and we'd already cut the project in half once.
So now we're gonna pay $10 billion for a project that was 25% of what it started, and we're not getting any closer to the nine-million-acre feet.
That is my, that i- that is m- my angst up there, is these constant, uh, hurdles that are placed in, in front of us, uh, when we're trying to get the basics in.
If you don't have that distributed throughout the state, then there are going to be big problems for people in the future.
'Cause SB, SB s- Uh, I'm, I'm looking at my notes, wh- which were fast, but SB 769, right?
... for financing of major potential water and other infrastructure projects, right?
And the State Water Board just cut their water rights in half, and we'd already cut the project in half once.
So now we're gonna pay $10 billion for a project that was 25% of what it started, and we're not getting any closer to the nine-million-acre feet.
That is my, that i- that is m- my angst up there, is these constant, uh, hurdles that are placed in, in front of us, uh, when we're trying to get the basics in.
If you don't have that distributed throughout the state, then there are going to be big problems for people in the future.
'Cause SB, SB s- Uh, I'm, I'm looking at my notes, wh- which were fast, but SB 769, right?
... for financing of major potential water and other infrastructure projects, right?
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