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John Duarte: “We asked them to come out to the field and look at what we…”

Featuring: John Duarte, Republican | Former U.S. House, California, District 13

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The 13th Congressional District w/ John Duarte

Published | Video Starts at 21:32

… it on its side, and it left maybe an eleven or twelve inch debit where the hard pan was moved from. And they gave us a cease and desist order. We asked them to come out to the field and look at what we were doing. We asked them to give us a hearing. They kicked us up to enforcement and told all kinds of other regulatory agencies that we'd destroyed wetlands and polluted water and all kinds of other nonsense. They'd never give us a hearing. So the Pacific Legal foundation, which is a public interest law firm that I call them the American Civil Liberties Union for productive people, they oftentimes represent farmers and builders and property owners, and they represented us on a. (21:32–21:46)

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Asserts that requests for a field visit and hearing were denied, and they were escalated to enforcement with accusations of environmental damage.

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