Last week, the Sonoma City Council voted unanimously in support of Drakes Bay Oyster Company, and asked Congressman Jared Huffman to support a bipartisan Congressional investigation into the “questionable science” that misinformed Interior Secretary Salazar’s decision not to renew the farm’s permit. Huffman immediately rejected the council’s request. In so doing, he made four substantive mistakes.
First, Huffman said the investigation of scientific misconduct was a “Republican-inspired effort.” Not so. Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein has…