A letter to the editor in the Kearney Hub takes issue with Sen. Carlson's comment that “The state signed the compact, irrigators didn’t.” The author opines, "In other words, Nebraska taxpayers will pay for the crimes of the greedy irrigators surrounding the Republican River, not the irrigators who knew they were breaking the rules."
See more at: http://www.kearneyhub.com/news/opinion/article_87f300b4-fc7a-11de-b2bd-001cc4c03286.html.