Below is an open letter to Rep. Tom McClintock rgarding the Small Business Financing and Investment Act of 2009 which Passed (389-32, 11 Not Voting)

This House bill would reauthorize several Small Business Administration loan programs

Your vote against the Small Business Financing and Investment Act of 2009 is a disappointment. With the bankruptcy to day of a major lender to small business your vote will hurt the job producing small business community when it can least afford to be hurt by those like yourself who are supposed to be representing their interests .

Your plan as laid out on the front page of the Auburn Journal today to steal water from the delta ecosystem so farmers can continue to irrigate wastefully without using state of the art methods, will also hurt small business in the form of the CA fishing industry. When the real price of water is established by including environmental costs, then farmers will use the type of irrigation methods and ground water re-charging that is used in other arid areas where farming takes place like in Israel.