But it is behind in the polling.
For details....we go to Watts Up With That:
Initiative to suspend California’s Global Warming Law (AB32) makes the ballot
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I’m proud to say that Dan Logue is my assemblyman. – Anthony
Economic initiative makes the ballot
In a phone interview, Logue said he found out Tuesday the initiative had enough valid signatures.
He said the initiative needed 440,000 signatures and it got 800,000. The names were collected by volunteers and paid “signature gatherers,” he said.
AB32 became law in 2006. It provides that between 2012 and 2020, greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced to the levels they were in 1990.
Logue’s initiative would postpone the implementation of AB32 until the state’s unemployment rate stands at 5.5 percent for a year. Now the jobless rate is around 12 percent.
Suspending AB32 only makes sense, Logue said. “We can’t afford it. We’ll lose another million jobs. It will drive business out of the state.”
Robin Huffman, advocacy director for the Chico-based Butte Environmental Council, expressed the opposite view.
Suspending AB32 is not necessary, she said. The law “is the very encouragement and incentive that is needed to create the jobs that we need for the new green economy.”
She called AB32 “a very, very reasonable law” and “a step in the right direction.”
“I’m sad that it’s gotten on the ballot,” she said of Logue’s initiative.
Logue said he’s long been disturbed by what he called a regulatory climate in the state that discourages business.
“Economic recovery begins by suspending AB32,” he said.
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