Meg Whitman opposes Proposition 23

Source: KPCC

After she refused for months to take a position on Proposition 23, Republican candidate for governor Meg Whitman yesterday announced that she opposes the ballot measure that would indefinitely delay California’s landmark global warming law.

Whitman said that if she becomes governor, she’d use the power of that office to suspend the state’s global warming law for one year.

Proposition 23 would delay the law until the state’s unemployment rate falls to 5.5 percent and stays there for a year. Economists say that could take several years to happen.

The2006 law – known as AB32 – requires California to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by the end of the decade.

Read more: http://www.scpr.org/news/2010/09/24/whitman-prop-23/

Heck, she still calls AB 32, California’s landmark global warming law, a job killer, but is now opposing Proposition 23, which blocks implementation of Proposition 23.

But, with her money, I guess Meg Whitman can run adds calling for the repeal of AB 32 while also opposing Proposition 23, which does the same thing.

"Better late than never,'' said Brown of Whitman's stance, speaking at PetersenDean Roofing and Solar Systems in Newark, the nation's largest privately-owned solar and roofing company. He called on her to "renig on her committment to delay AB 32,'' saying it "makes no sense."

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"She is right now sitting on both sides of the fence,'' he told reporters. When informed Whitman had just minutes earlier announced her opposition, Brown said that her position to "start and stop" policies that would encourage green technology would only hurt the state's economy.

Warner Chabot, chief executive officer of the California League of Conservation Voters, who was at Brown's side, called Whitman's stance akin to "holding a gun to the head" of California's landmark climate change law."

"Texas oil and Meg Whitman share the same goal: dismantling California's innovative, first-in-the-world program to fight global warming,'' the Brown press release said.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=72982#ixzz10W5zseRd

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Source: Think Progress

In an attempt to ensure that California has neither an old-energy nor new-energy economy, Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has announced her opposition to Proposition 23, the oil-fueled campaign to suspend California’s landmark climate law AB 32. Whitman also reiterated her call for a one-year moratorium of AB 32, attacking it as a “job-killer”:

While Proposition 23 does address the job killing aspects of AB 32, it does not offer a sensible balance between our vital need for good jobs and the desire of all Californians to protect our precious environment. It is too simple of a solution for a complex problem. I believe that my plan to fix AB 32 strikes the right balance for California. I will vote “no” on Proposition 23.

Whitman’s “plan to fix AB 32″ is to delay its implementation and reconfigure its key provisions as the world burns, putting years of private investment and planning into disarray.


Read more: http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/09/23/whitman-no-prop-23/

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I guess she has enough money to oppose and support gutting environmental laws like AB 32.

No on 23!

"Better late than never,'' said Brown of Whitman's stance, speaking at PetersenDean Roofing and Solar Systems in Newark, the nation's largest privately-owned solar and roofing company. He called on her to "renig on her committment to delay AB 32,'' saying it "makes no sense."

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"She is right now sitting on both sides of the fence,'' he told reporters. When informed Whitman had just minutes earlier announced her opposition, Brown said that her position to "start and stop" policies that would encourage green technology would only hurt the state's economy.

Warner Chabot, chief executive officer of the California League of Conservation Voters, who was at Brown's side, called Whitman's stance akin to "holding a gun to the head" of California's landmark climate change law."

"Texas oil and Meg Whitman share the same goal: dismantling California's innovative, first-in-the-world program to fight global warming,'' the Brown press release said.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=72982#ixzz10W5zseRd

I was sure 23 was going to pass, but with both candidates against it, maybe it won't after all.

the jobs will go somewhere else