The California governor’s race is heating up with former governor Jerry Brown (D) running against former EBay CEO Meg Whitman (R). Brown, after decades in government has apparently run out of ideas for campaign commercials and is looking for people to “star” in a new ad. However, the voting process does not appear to have had too much publicity!
Proposition 23 is a major ballot initiative in November as well, aimed at suspending AB32. Several of the “submissions” for the campaign ad star include references to Prop 23, and the necessity to keep AB32. Currently, Central Valley Farmers and 30%+ unemployment rates have some thinking about turning their brown fields into giant Solar Panel farms. Good luck with the dust…
And last week:
The vote by the Air Resources Board to adopt a Renewable Electricity Standard of 33 percent by 2020 was unanimous. The board’s members are appointed by the governor, who signed an executive order last year calling for the 33 percent standard, as well as a target of 20 percent use of renewable energy by the end of this year.
So, with that in mind, Share Your Vote for the Future of California (or come up with your own global warming / climate change themed advertisement to Rebuild California): Here’s one example that would make a fantastic campaign ad:
Jon Reiter: who wants to “relocalize” and can’t get a decent washing machine from the “third-world” including Mexico, China, and India (yikes)!
The top issues I am concerned with is corporate power, peak oil and global warming. I am a member of the Green Party…
We must eliminate the need for long-distance transportation for everyday items such as food; we must relocalize.
Globalization is another issue in the Green Party. Corporations like Whirlpool, Frigidaire and General Electric moved their manufacturing operations to third-world countries such as Mexico, China and India.
The quality of their products has really declines. I cannot get a decent washing machine in any store now because they are all poor quality and the cycle times are too long. I wish they could bring the jobs back to America and restore quality.
There are 60 total submissions that can be voted on. The vast majority of the submissions are party-neutral meaning they could be applied to both Brown’s and Whitman’s campaign without much disagreement from either side. Also, many are concerned with the quality of education in California as well as the cost of government, health care, and infrastructure.
Dr. Dave says:
September 27, 2010 at 4:32 pm
“H.R.,
I wonder where you live. […]”
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Flyover country; the good ol’ Midwest.
Richard Sharpe says:{September 27, 2010 at 6:25 pm}
“What happened to the blog stats? They used to be on 55M, now down to 352,xxx?
REPLY: they were “adjusted” post facto by wordpress.com – trouble ticket posted. – Anthony”
You’ve been Hansenized.
Just fruits and nuts.
From 1770 onwards for a few decades, the Brits shipped dissidents and crooks to far away places like Oz.
We need to create a new Utopia so those with stars in their green eyes can practice what they preach. Where can we ship them? My choice would be to Germany and Holland, which countries have consistently been at the forefront of telling other people what to do; and inventing strange ideas to cure their perceptions of the ills of the world.
I’m not cruel enough to suggest North Korea or Iran, because the experiment would not last long enough to provide useful feedback.
Pamela Gray-my wife and I were (and as of now it is were) planning a trip the “auld sod”
ourselves. Not now.
Wife and I are Ulster Scot, Highland Scot, Native American, and a bit of German.
typical Appalachian heritage…
With a re-treaded Gov. Moonbeam, ought we not to see a bill promoting the use of Moonbeam-PV-Panels? Works in the dark!
Our very expensive Kenmore (Whirlpool) front loading HE4T & HE4 front loading washer and dryer were made in Germany & Mexico respectively per Kenmore Service. This was their explanation for color match being very obviously imperfect. Serious additional quality & design problems in both revealed themselves during the last few years.
I suffered under Brown the last go-around. Once was once too many. He started the State-worker unions, and all of them have him on their strings, because they are all providing him with the money, and free campaign-workers.
30 % renewables, pass me the pipe. Here is IEA report on California’s current renewable energy profile.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page/state_profiles/california.html
wind accounts for 3.7 % of electricity generated. Of course only 30% of the electricity generated by wind is actually taken into the grid because 70 % of the time it is not needed. All the the good bird killing locations like Altamont have been taken.
Solar in 2008 accounted for .3%. But now the green light is on to convert the desert into solar panels and use all the water from the Colorado river that they do not have rights too. We do not need it in the central valley any more because the farms will be shut down to save fish in the Sacramento delta.
When the utilities talk to the press they point out that more geothermal will have have to be developed to meet the RPS goals. Unfortunately the Geysers geothermal pool is being depleted. Google tried to invest in new development nearby but after observing earthquakes resulting from drilling the well they quickly shut it down. The epicenter of this years earthquakes near El Centro is right atop the the Cerro prieto geothermal field.
But we have Hollywood, the Governor is an actor, lets just pretend.
I was at the auction in Herrin, Illinois where the industrial plant equipment of the former Norge plant was auctioned. Most of the huge forge presses and other major equipment was sold and shipped to China and Mexico. The same thing happened to the sister plant in Arkansas. The unions and Democrats in the area are still complaining about not having jobs and still blindly supporting the politicians who made it too expensive in taxes and regulations to stay.
Back to the Future 4! Starring Jerry Brown as Biff.
Curiousgeorge:
Did you ever USE a washboard?
A lot more energy than zero.
And all home made.
Meg Whitman did nothing for Ebay, and got lucky as she got the hell out of the way and let the computer geeks run the place, this race is a choice between a rich loser and a poor loser – they will both continue the ruinous path that is currently California.
Speaking of keeping jobs local, the “Rebuild California” website’s server is located in Utah. But Meg Whitman’s is located in Dallas, Texas.
I was told many years ago that in California, all halucinations are taken seriously by the politicos. Too many people have had their wishes come true and now they are stuck with the curse of living in interesting times.
Why rebuild? Did the BIG ONE happen already?
I recommend to Mr. Reiter that he seek the following models:
washer
dryer
John Reiter, who must be of some green tinged persuasion, says…
“The quality of their products has really declines. I cannot get a decent washing machine in any store now because they are all poor quality and the cycle times are too long. I wish they could bring the jobs back to America and restore quality”
So there we have it in a nutshell.
The “greens” need to keep their clothes clean, but when there is interference from “the powers-that-be”, then they moan and whinge, just like the rest of us. The lights go out? Nothing to do with us, may be the swift response from the ilk of greenpeace.
One of the latter organisation’s ships was in Aberdeen recently. The so-called “mission statement” plastered on the hull read “DEFENDING OUR OCEANS”. Against what, precisely, I would ask. Inane response was registered, dear readers.
Ah, yes –
(Re-)elect Jerry Brown, aka Governor Moonbeam, or later,
Governor Medfly.
Oh boy..
Bob