He's getting plenty of (mis)education from the people who wrote his environmental plan: Bonnie Reiss, RFK Jr., Terry Tamminen, Robert Grady (a trustee of Environmental Defense), Buzz Thompson Dean at Stanford Law School and a bigwig at Earthjustus), and Dan Emmett (a big developer and real estate speculator).
Here is what you don't understand:
When people, especially moderates, are confronted with a hard choice, that choice becomes paradoxically easier. Such is a choice between a conservative and a liberal. Between a conservative and a moderate (as Davis was believed to be), a conservative loses. Between a conservative and a leftist, as Bustamante is and Davis is now exposed to be, a conservative wins, especially amid the wreckage of leftist governance.
That is why it was so evil for the Republican Party to run a supposedly moderate candidate against Bustamante and against their own principled candidate. That candidate is a statist, an anathema to everything for which the party supposedly stands but upon which the leadership depends for the cash flow with which it funds its continuing feckless hegemony.
Our protagonist, being an actor, needed only packaging, and a selective message to each divided constituency. Who cares if they are mutually exclusive messages? Just win baby.
Win what? With that philosophy in charge, the corporate and legal feeding frenzy that is destroying this state will continue.
"Too bad you didn't get this before the recall election. It's going to get worse and it didn't have to happen."
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NO, it didn't need to happen. We could have continued with Gray Davis or gotten Bustamante. What a pity, what wonderful place California would be now if either of them would be governor today. (/sarcasm)
Yes, I can see how you are wishing Gray Davis were still governor...
California Gov. Gray Davis Signs Landmark CO2 Pollution Measure; New Law Uses Power of American Know-How to Tackle Global Warming
July 22, 2002
http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressreleases/020722.asp
California Governor Gray Davis today signs a pioneering measure to protect California's health and environment by reducing global warming pollution from all new cars and trucks sold in the state, America's largest automobile market. The law demonstrates that Americans can and will meet the global warming challenge, and reaffirms California's worldwide leadership in pollution safeguards and clean vehicle technology.
The law -- known as AB 1493 -- is the first of its kind anywhere in world, and marks a dramatic change in the national global warming debate, according to NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council). It reaffirms California's successful 40-year leadership in pollution safeguards and clean vehicle technologies.
"We have the know-how to solve this problem safely and affordably. The law is proof that America doesn't have to take global warming lying down," said Ann Notthoff, NRDC's California Advocacy Director. "This is a bold stroke for the people of California, and an enormous credit to Governor Davis and the legislators who fought to get it to his desk."
Introduced by Assemblymember Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills), AB 1493 requires automakers for the first time to limit heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), which form a thickening blanket in the atmosphere. It also will reduce other pollutants, and save consumers money at the gas pump.
Even with these bonehead remarks, he is better than Bustamonte or Governor Grayout. Having said that, they all were very poor choices. Such is life in Kalifornia....I can't wait to make enough money to get out of here...