Monday, November 01, 2010
BS is Major Pollution
"major polluter” of ballots
Ballots printed for [Fresno County’s] roughly 380,000 registered voters say Proposition 23 would suspend laws requiring “major polluters” to report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That language was thrown out by a Sacramento superior court judge, [on 8/3/10] who ordered several edits to the original language drafted by the attorney general’s office, including changing “major polluters” to “major sources of emissions."
Their “defense”? “oopsie”
Salazar said election officials received the updated ballot label language from the secretary of state, but that the correction was never made.
“What has happened is that in Fresno County, like many of the counties, we are experiencing a budgetary crisis. As a result, we’ve lost staffing, so with many more tasks to do and fewer people, this wasn’t caught. It was an oversight,” he said.
See? It’s your fault for not paying enough taxes.
and “It doesn’t matter anyway...”
"Right or wrong, very few people tend to read these kind of ballot descriptions… I don’t see how this by itself will have much difference one way or another,” Larry Gerston, a professor of political science at San Jose State University.
Doesn’t matter, eh?
[Lawrence Goldenhersh, chief executive of Enviance, a California firm that sells environmental compliance software and services—including those that track greenhouse gas emissions—to big industrial companies.]
“If AB 32 is sustained by the voters of California, you will have the largest plebiscite in the history of the climate change debate cast by voters in the world’s seventh largest economy,” ... “If AB 32 survives and Jerry Brown gets elected governor I think you’ll have cap-and-trade nationally by 2013.”
he calls the election the “Normandy invasion of climate change.”
“If Prop 23 passes and AB 32 is suspended or killed then I think there will not be a lot of drive and political appetite to take on a piece of grand climate legislation in Congress,” ... “People will say, ‘if it’s too expensive for California then it’s too expensive for a little state.’"
And it IS.
In Support of Prop. 23: $10,654,560
In Opposition to Prop. 23: $30,914,494
That anti money includes $500,000 from Claire Perry, resident of Salisbury and a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Devizes since the 2010. WTF?!?
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