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amborin

(16,631 posts)
Tue May 31, 2016, 03:06 PM May 2016

Big Oil’s Favorite Governor: Jerry Brown: Fracking Champion Small Wonder He Endorsed HRC

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/24/big-oils-favorite-governor-jerry-brown/

Jerry Brown, one of the worst governors for fish, water and the environment in California history, spoke to world leaders at the United Nations Climate Summit in New York City on September 23 in a cynical attempt to greenwash his deplorable environmental record.

During his U.N. address, Governor Brown touted California’s controversial carbon trading policies as an example of “innovative climate strategies.”

“The California story is a very hopeful one,” Brown gushed. “It’s a story of Republican and Democratic governors pioneering innovative climate strategies. It’s not been easy, it’s not without contest, but we’re making real progress.”

“I believe that from the bottom up, we can make real impact and we need to join together,” added Governor Brown. “We’re signing MOUs with Quebec and British Columbia, with Mexico, with states in China and wherever we can find partners, because we know we have to do it all.”

Brown’s remarks at the summit are available here.

In a video message ahead of the Summit, Brown claimed, “We are carrying on because we know in California that carbon pollution kills, it undermines our environment, and, long-term, it’s an economic loser. We face an existential challenge with the changes in our climate. The time to act is now. The place to look is California.”

Yes, California, now under attack by the anti-environmental policies and carbon trading greenwashing campaign by Governor Brown, is definitely “the place to look” for one example after another of environmental destruction.

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Oil Change International, a research, communication, and advocacy organization focused on “exposing the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitating the coming transition towards clean energy” has given Brown a new nickname, “Big Oil Brown,” for the large contributions he has received from oil companies and his support of fracking. The web page dedicated to “Big Oil Brown” features Jerry attired in a suit and cowboy hat like a Texas oil baron right next to an oil rig.

“California’s Governor Jerry Brown has a problem: he wants to be seen as a climate champion who understands the science and takes this crisis seriously. At the same time, he just proposed new fracking rules in California that would amount to a gift to Big Oil.

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Big Oil’s Favorite Governor: Jerry Brown: Fracking Champion Small Wonder He Endorsed HRC (Original Post) amborin May 2016 OP
One DINO endorses another. Film at 11. KamaAina May 2016 #1
Jerry Brown, who once studied to be a priest and who later studied Buddhism. bjo59 May 2016 #2
no no no. it started with Pat. reddread May 2016 #8
Pat was bad news by all accounts amborin May 2016 #9
trying to dig through the chaff to try to get back to FDR reddread May 2016 #12
Brown appeals/panders to all groups at once: Clinton badly envies his ability at that MisterP May 2016 #3
Dear Californians Carolina May 2016 #4
Frick and Frack. merrily May 2016 #5
old jerry.... shanti May 2016 #6
Another one under the bus book_worm May 2016 #7
for good reason amborin May 2016 #10
Today's directive: smear Jerry Brown. YouDig May 2016 #11
It's doesn't matter. ronnykmarshall May 2016 #13
CounterPunch, the go-to source for bashers everywhere. ucrdem May 2016 #14
Oh frack it. nc4bo May 2016 #15
But he was so liberal Pastiche423 May 2016 #16
Geez, that's a bit overstated, don't you think? kstewart33 Jun 2016 #17
 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
1. One DINO endorses another. Film at 11.
Tue May 31, 2016, 03:07 PM
May 2016


The irony is that one of Brown's goals is to be remembered as "the climate change governor"!!

bjo59

(1,166 posts)
2. Jerry Brown, who once studied to be a priest and who later studied Buddhism.
Tue May 31, 2016, 03:15 PM
May 2016

And where did the dilettante end up? In the pocket of big oil and endorsing a candidate for president who favors facilitating coups, regime-change, and wars in other people's countries because it makes "good business sense" to Goldman Sachs, the IMF, and a whole host of corporate interests. Brown clearly don't give a crap what Buddha would think of that! And so much for all that priestly stuff from his youth too. A lot of Californians don't like Jerry Brown (for the reasons that are the subject of this Counterpunch article) so we'll see whether they care at all about who the hell he endorses. Edmund "Pat" Brown must be rolling in his grave over what a shameful sell out his son turned out to be.

 

reddread

(6,896 posts)
8. no no no. it started with Pat.
Tue May 31, 2016, 05:00 PM
May 2016

after retiring from elected officialdom, Jerry's dad opened up a PR office in Santa Monica (?) with Occidental Petroleum, specifically to lobby for offshore drilling IN MARINE SANCTUARIES.
whole family is weasel.

 

reddread

(6,896 posts)
12. trying to dig through the chaff to try to get back to FDR
Tue May 31, 2016, 07:17 PM
May 2016

its worth it. to us.
I dont know what the fuck these other people are thinking.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
3. Brown appeals/panders to all groups at once: Clinton badly envies his ability at that
Tue May 31, 2016, 03:19 PM
May 2016

some pols can contradict themselves, others just can't get away with it

Carolina

(6,960 posts)
4. Dear Californians
Tue May 31, 2016, 03:23 PM
May 2016

Please do the right thing. You elected Ronald Reagan governor and from there, he was able to launch a presidential bid in 1976 and 1980. He went from unremarkable actor, to shilling for GE, to CA governor to the two-term POTUS who started US/us on this disastrous oligarchic, corporatist slide to hell.

Next Tuesday, PLEASE don't be fooled by HRC's campaign rhetoric and increased appearances in CA. Don't vote for HRC out of the fear promulgated in Gov. Brown's statement, a fear that maintains the status quo. Please send US the anti-Reagan, the man of real hope and change.

Vote for Bernie Sanders. Send a message to the third way, to the bought and paid for (corporate bribed) DINOs, to the establishment, to those in the Democratic Party who want you to vote AGAINST the opposition rather than FOR someone you can believe in, meaning voting yet again for the not so lesser of two evils.

This time there is a real choice between Wall Street Red and Wall Street Blue, and his name is Bernie Sanders.

Do what you can to START undoing Reagan!

shanti

(21,672 posts)
6. old jerry....
Tue May 31, 2016, 03:30 PM
May 2016

fuck off! god, what a disappointment! he's also selling off our water to japan. oh, and lest i forget, he's not for rec cannabis either.

YouDig

(2,280 posts)
11. Today's directive: smear Jerry Brown.
Tue May 31, 2016, 06:56 PM
May 2016

Because he's a real corporate establishment guy. Good luck selling that one.

ronnykmarshall

(35,356 posts)
13. It's doesn't matter.
Tue May 31, 2016, 08:51 PM
May 2016

FDR could come out of this his grave and endorse Hillary and these folks would attack HIM!

Pathetic, yet some much fun to watch childish meltdowns.

ucrdem

(15,512 posts)
14. CounterPunch, the go-to source for bashers everywhere.
Tue May 31, 2016, 09:03 PM
May 2016

Oil is still a big California industry and this is a hyper-gripe about one policy concerning one technology that's basically a stopgap between old and new energy sources. Fossil fuels won't be around much longer but in the meantime that's what we've got and no one is complaining about low prices except the oil companies. Remember the late great peak oil?

Pastiche423

(15,406 posts)
16. But he was so liberal
Tue May 31, 2016, 11:28 PM
May 2016

when he was my governor.

He's gone from moon bat to Big Oil Brown.

So effing sad.

kstewart33

(6,551 posts)
17. Geez, that's a bit overstated, don't you think?
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 11:24 AM
Jun 2016

Brown has a 77% approval rating in California. He must be doing something right.

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