After 15 years in office, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein made her first visit to Santa Clarita on Tuesday, finding a receptive audience in the Republican stronghold according to the Daily News.
“You’ve really built this city,” Feinstein told the audience of roughly 400 gathered at the Hyatt Valencia’s Grand Ballroom. “I think you can be very proud of it.”
The senior senator from California spoke about issues ranging from the Cemex mine planned outside Santa Clarita to the war in Iraq.
Feinstein told the crowd she visited the mine site in Soledad Canyon before Tuesday’s luncheon. Mexico-based Cemex has plans to operate a 56.1million- ton aggregate mine, and Feinstein has offered to mediate between the company and the city.
Cemex officials announced earlier this year that they called off plans to open the mine next year and want to negotiate a compromise with the city instead. The city has bankrolled a roughly $8million campaign to scale down or block the mine, planned for a hilly area outside city boundaries between Canyon Country and Agua Dulce.
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