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Published on Wednesday, September 03, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - Dino Cortopassi is a wealthy farmer who grew up in California's fertile delta region and, as he tells it, is passionate about protecting it.
In recent weeks, he has channeled that passion into an expensive and highly negative advertising campaign against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Through the Sacramento-area ad blitz, which has cost him at least $100,000, Cortopassi has emerged as an outspoken critic of one of the governor's main policy initiatives - upgrading the state's water-delivery system.
It's a turnabout for a relatively unknown figure who once gave lavishly to promote Schwarzenegger's political fortunes and even has spent time with him smoking cigars.
In an interview, Cortopassi said he is convinced that Schwarzenegger, Southern California water districts and agricultural interests that farm land south of his in the Central Valley are conspiring to build a canal that would pipe fresh water around the delta
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