Brown calls on Whitman to take a position on Proposition 23

[TomCADem]

Source: LA Times

Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jerry Brown on Monday called out his Republican rival Meg Whitman for failing to take a position on Proposition 23, which would suspend California’s landmark climate-change law until unemployment drops sharply.

“I’m for renewable energy, solar, wind, efficiency and the kind of investment in the new jobs that will keep California at the forefront,” Brown said, speaking at PermaCity Solar in Los Angeles. “It is a very regressive move and plays right into the hands of out-of-state oil companies to say yes on this particular proposition. I say no on 23 and I call upon Meg Whitman, who has yet to make up her mind, to join environmentalists, labor, citizen groups in fighting this really noxious initiative.”

The November ballot measure would suspend a 2006 law that requires California to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels over a decade. If Prop. 23 is approved, the law would be suspended until unemployment dips to 5.5% or lower for one year.

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Since early August, Whitman has refused to take a position on the proposition, despite calling the law a “job killer” in the GOP primary. For nearly seven weeks, the candidate has said she is leaning against it but has not made up her mind.


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[ProudDad]

1. Whitman and the word "mind" don't really go together (n/t)

[JDPriestly]

2. Schwarzenegger was not qualified to be governor,

but Whitman is not qualified to be dog-catcher. Why in the world she thinks she could manage our government I do not know.

Whitman hasn't even bothered to vote much. What in the world does she think she knows about government? It isn't like a business, not at all.

In business, you are selling a product to people who have the money to buy it.

In government, you are responsible for the lives of millions who have no money and who are very needy as well as people who have a lot of money but don't want to pay taxes. It is not at all like a business.

[Mz Pip]

3. I don't think Nutmeg

has done much of anything in the public sector. Being COE of a company does not necessarily qualify you to be governor of any state, much less California.

Buy It Now Meg and her supporters are delusional if they think she can run this place.

[PSPS]

4. Her task wouldn't be to "run this place."

Her agenda is to gut the state and enrich the wealthy at the expense of the other 98%. In other words, her agenda is the same as the national GOP, only on the state level.

[Merlot]

5. "but has not made up her mind." Sounds indecisive, not very governor like

so keep at it, meg-a-bucks. Don't take a strong stand on this.

She's kinda in a corner, she can agree with Brown and most of CA which will anger her corporate cronies, or she can come out for it which will anger everyone else.