Born in Israel, Amnon Shor immigrated to the United States in 1980 following the woman he fell in love with. Shortly after, he married his wife Lynette, and together they have three children and seven grandchildren. They decided to settle in California and call it home. Shor began working in the jewelry business, owning his own wholesale and retail operations. In 1986 the family moved to Fresno, to pursue a passion for Arabian horses and bought a ranch for that purpose in the beautiful Central Valley.
It’s time that leadership stops giving our farmers lip service instead of solutions. Farming and the production of food is a critical infrastructure and national security asset. Our infrastructure was built by visionaries to accommodate 20M people, but now we have nearly twice that population. Our leaders claim to have budgeted for new storage, but they encourage their environmentalist allies to use any means to indefinitely delay these critical projects. Further, it is not clear where these budgeted funds are being held. We must locate these funds and make certain they are deployed as promised.
Shor will lead California to take advantage of technologies like desalination which are wetting some of the driest lands on our planet, we border the Pacific Ocean after all. We must reform water allocation to put our critical farming first and not last. We must lead the charge to increase the costs for those who stand in the way of bringing more water to our farms.
Amnon Shor brings a unique skill set and reputation of bringing people together and helping erase divides. This is crucial in governance. Respect must be part of the equation and brought back into our mix.