FLASH: Californians Rejecting Proposition 23 to Suspend Climate Change Law by Wide Margin

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

California climate law challenge headed for defeat

LOS ANGELES | Wed Nov 3, 2010 1:43am EDT

(Reuters) - A ballot measure that sought to suspend California's landmark global warming law appeared headed for defeat on Tuesday, according to early election returns.

With 22 percent of precincts reporting, the "no" vote on Proposition 23 stood at 58 percent to 42 percent for the "yes" vo

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A03U420101103

[calimary]

1. SO glad to see this!

[mike_c]

2. take that, Koch brothers....

Rat bastards.

[FrenchieCat]

3. Yeah!

In my link to proposition, they advised not simply that one votes no...
but that they vote HELL NO!

[soleiri]

5. Hell no!

That's exactly what I wrote in my voter guide.
I'm so happy it's being defeated.

[Bette Noir]

4. That's 'cause we're smart. And we don't want to die.

[Hissyspit]

6. Kick nt

[Le Taz Hot]

7. All the ads had to say was

"sponsored by Texas oil companies" and that pretty much stopped it in it's tracks. (Californians and Texas have not been, historically, the best of friends.)

[cal04]

8. California rejects climate law challenge

Source: Reuters

A California ballot measure that sought to suspend the state's landmark global warming law failed at the polls on Tuesday, marking a big victory for environmentalists and the growing alternative energy sector.

With more than a quarter of precincts reporting, the "no" vote on Proposition 23 stood at 59 percent, with 41 percent in the "yes" column.

The measure, largely funded by oil companies, would have put on hold California's efforts to step up use of renewable energy sources and create a market for rights to trade greenhouse gases.

After the failure of federal climate legislation this year, the fate of California's 2006 AB 32 law was viewed as a U.S. turning point -- either away from addressing global warming or toward stronger action to curb greenhouse gases.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A03U420101103

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Voters reject Prop. 23, keeping California's global warming law intact
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/11/voters-reject-prop-23-keeping-californias-global-warming-law-intact.html

[left coaster]

9. Sanity prevails on this one! Yay for us. nt

[Turborama]

10. K&R Very good news for CA and the rest of the world!

Schwarzenegger Celebrates Prop. 23 Defeat
http://www.baycitizen.org/proposition-23/story/gov-schwarzenegger-celebrates-prop-23/

[Posteritatis]

11. This made me feel a bit better about the world tonight. (nt)

[calimary]

12. Let California dry your tears!

My state has saved me from having a grim night.

[K8-EEE]

13. CA REJECTS THE BIG OUTSIDE MONEY!

Now if we can just get other states to do that!

[EFerrari]

14. We dodged a bunch of bullets tonight. And I bet part of it

is because Debra Bowen has quietly cleaned up our elections a great deal. L.A. County and I think Riverside are still a mess but nowhere near where they were headed with the Republican vapor vote peddler that we voted out.

[Uncle Joe]

15. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.:thumbsup:

[slackmaster]

16. We also rejected Prop. 27, which was a similarly dirty trick

Designed to repeal something we voted in two years earlier, before it even took effect. (27 would have repealed the citizens' redistricting commission for state legislative offices that was created by Proposition 11 in 2008.)