CA elections - voters embrace green economic climate, nix green bud

California elections have a history of launching political and social trends nationally. Within the 2010 CA political election, propositions to set back global warming legislation and bring weed into the mainstream were under heavy scrutiny.

California's global warming law is not going anywhere

CA is probably the most popular state within the United States of America which makes its elections fairly popular. The voters and companies in CA usually set trends throughout the country. This is all because within the whole world, CA has the eighth largest economy. The state has continued to keep air quality legislation significant. Within the last 40 years, this hasn't changed. In 2006, there had been a greenhouse gas legislation that passed. This left California's economic climate entirely changed. Prop 23 claims the change does not have to be made with the economic recession, while oil corporations put millions into stopping that from happening. Proposition 19 failed also, as the voters did not want to go against the federal govt. This had been the prop that would allow marijuana to be legalized.

Prop 23 beaten hurting oil businesses

The ground breaking global warming law in CA is something 2 Texas oil companies wanted to stop. Valero and Tesoro both wanted Proposition 23 to pass. By 2020, emission amounts have to be reduced to 1990 under the law called AB23. The legislation affects most everybody within the state. The public, govt and companies are all affected. A campaign funded by oil corporations tried to convince voters that California, with a current unemployment rate of 12 percent, couldn’t afford to address climate change until unemployment hit 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters. Continuing to go green had been what over 60 percent of Californian voters preferred to do. It was not just a small loss for the oil companies. It was more than that. They lost badly. It did not even seem a competition.

Prop 19 stopped by Fed

Proposition 19 supporters tried to bolster their own green economy by also using the recession to rationalize the legalization of marijuana. The CA budget would do much better with the tax on marijuana that would come in. The Proposition 19 campaign had strong backing from younger voters, but they failed to show up on political election day. Certainly voters did not like the idea. They would have voted differently then. Proposition 19 was likely stopped because of the federal government one of the most. It said that if marijuana were legalized, CA would be hit hard.

Citations

Reuters

reuters.com/article/idUS184481293120101103

Los Angeles Times

latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pot-20101103-1,,5135592.story

Wall Street Journal

online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20101103-710843.html