Green Options

After being chided over remarks he made in August about renegotiating the Colorado River Compact, John McCain said at a recent campaign stop that he would “never, ever” try to take more of Colorado’s water. But has the damage already been done in this water-sensitive state?

John McCain has again said something to cause his fellow western-state Republicans to wince at his political inexpedience and apparent naivete, stating last week that he wants to renegotiate the Colorado River compact to re-appropriate water from the upper basin states where the river originates and give it to lower basin states like California, and his home state of Arizona. Even though the Senator has now recanted and begun damage control, Democrats are hoping that this one will cost him, [...]