From myMotherLode.com – Article by B.J. Hansen
Former Mother Lode Senator Dave Cogdill is expected to be dropped from the California Water Commission.
Cogdill was appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger last December, shortly after Cogdill left office. The Sacramento Bee reports that Governor Jerry Brown has asked Senate Democrats to prevent Cogdill and water agency leader Paul Kelley from being confirmed, as the Governor has indicated that he would like to make his own appointments. Both must leave the Commission if they are not confirmed in the Senate by the end of the year.
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Gov. Jerry Brown‘s decision to remove two GOP appointees to the California Water Commission sparked a partisan dispute under the dome last week as Senate Republicans sought to approve the appointees anyway.
Brown said earlier this month that he plans to replace former Republican Sen. Dave Cogdill and former Sonoma County Water Agency Director Paul Kelley on the nine-member panel, but he didn’t formally withdraw their names.
Instead, Brown asked Democratic leaders to let the Arnold Schwarzenegger appointments lapse at year’s end.
Senate GOP leader Bob Dutton introduced a motion Thursday to hold a floor vote on the confirmations.
