Whitman's One-Two Punch to Health And Environment

by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse

Some friends shared their frustration with trying to make sense of the interrelationship of AB 32 (California's climate change law), Proposition 23 (a ballot measure to nix our climate change law), and Proposition 26 (a measure to transform regulatory fees into taxes).  Essentially, the Whitman game plan is to give the sham appearance that she cares about our health, environmental resources and climate change impacts. In reality, she wants to enable corporations to continue to sicken people and damage natural resources while removing a key tool for corporate accountability.

Meg Whitman opposes Proposition 23, the ballot measure to nix our climate change law, and might hope that people won't notice that she also opposes our climate change law. Meg apparently does not want the voters to nix AB 32 because she plans to unilaterally nix our climate law by issuing a moratorium order on her first day as governor. Whitman also supports Prop 26, which would remove a key tool of corporate accountability for external costs of pollution and could be used for climate change impacts.

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California Technology – Help Jerry Brown

by Sara R

I first came to California in 1966 as a nine year old child.  My father was finishing his time in the Air Force at Vandenberg AFB before taking a job in the aerospace industry in Southern California.

Southern California was aerospace central in those days.  We were going to the moon, discovering how to walk in space, and developing new passenger aircraft, to boot.  In the wake of all this, many new products were developed.  It was a boom time, a time of good jobs.  I remember it fondly.

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The Week in Editorial Cartoons - Exorcism, InsaniTea, and Helping Jerry Brown

by JekyllnHyde

J.D. Crowe, Mobile Register

Bewitched

Christine O'Donnell has wiggled her nose and put a hex on the GOP establishment.  The novice Tea party candidate turned lots of heads, Linda Blair-like...But Karl Rove, the Warlock of W, has been taken aback by O'Donnell's victory.  Even he thinks this girl is bat$#!+ crazy and that the Republicans have been given a Tea Party roofie.

Personally, I think she's the best thing to happen to political satirists since her mentor, Sarah Palin. Republicans, on the other hand, are fingering the Yellow Pages looking for an exorcist. And maybe an antidote.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger: "Why would we want to go back to the Stone Age?"

by citisven

In response to California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman calling for a one-year moratorium on AB 32, the landmark law which requires the state to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases 25 percent by 2020, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, at a green jobs exhibit in March, had this to say:

Why would we want to go back to the Stone Age?

While it's good to know that there is still a leading Republican who hasn't gone into complete tea party meltdown, this exchange is important because after last week's death of the climate bill it points our attention to where the next big climate battle in this country is going to take place: KAH-lee-fo-nee-ah.

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