2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumLets be honest about Jerry Brown...
Jerry Brown is no real progressive, he's been a big supporter of fracking in California...
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0505-mckibben-california-fracking-20150502-story.html
That means Brown's legacy is double-edged: visionary on one side but status quo on the other.
And even worse, fracking in a time of drought is a remarkable obscenity. The process uses a tremendous amount of water. Trucks line up on rural roads in Kern County, not to deliver water to those communities where wells have run dry but to deliver it to drillers who inject it underground. What they bring back up is polluted wastewater.
And it's even worse, Jerry Brown has done nothing to protect plants and water used in California from being contaminated with fracking wastewater (and in fact, regulators basically allowed polluters to pollute California water.)
California Regulators Allowed Oil Industry To Drill Hundreds Of Wastewater Injection Wells Into Aquifers With Drinkable Water
http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/03/california-regulators-allowed-hundreds-oil-industry-wastewater-injection-wells-drilled-aquifers-drinkable-water
Original post: The fallout from the ongoing review of Californias deeply flawed Underground Injection Control program continues as new documents reveal that state regulators are investigating more than 500 injection wells for potentially dumping oil industry wastewater into aquifers protected under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act as well as state law.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Single issue....amazing to see anyone call out brown for not being a true progressive...pretty funny
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)It would be good to understand his motivations for this and he should be held accountable. That goes for every politician.
Ned_Devine
(3,146 posts)But honestly, part of the democratic platform should be that we are good stewards of the earth and fracking is most definitely bad stewardship. I mean, that seems like something we should all be able to rally around. If you're not sure, just watch Gas Land and Gas Land II
LonePirate
(13,437 posts)It's one thing to have supported it in prior years; but the evidence in Oklahoma should be sufficient for any Dem to oppose fracking simply based on human safety concerns.
whathehell
(29,102 posts)tonyt53
(5,737 posts)They used high pressure, just like now, and when quakes started, they stopped for a bit. Then they started it again. Same thing - quakes.That was in the 50's. The rock structure under OK is the reason for it. That is the reason there are no quakes in ND, and yes, they are fracking there. Just a tidbit of info. They knew what would happen and did it anyway.
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)Don't they care enough to vote for politicians that reflect their wishes?
LonePirate
(13,437 posts)The legislature is passing all sorts of crap to distract from the real issues like fracking-induced earthquakes.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)preferring instead to spend our recent surpluses on debt service, rainy-day funds, etc.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)Fracking has always been a bad deal and I am glad people are waking up to it.
metroins
(2,550 posts)Just because you support it in the short term, which is better than coal or foreign oil, doesn't disqualify you from being a progressive.
Life isn't about 1 issue or fixing everything at once.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)metroins
(2,550 posts)That's exactly what I wrote, I want to poison everybody's water.
That must have been what I wrote for you to reply like that.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)And get back to me.
metroins
(2,550 posts)And get back to me.
I'm sure we'll both get back to each other at the same time.
Why throw a great governor under the bus?
Nobody is perfect, nothing is perfect and Jerry Brown is a progressive governor.
mmonk
(52,589 posts)Ash_F
(5,861 posts)It has been around for decades too. 1947
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing
metroins
(2,550 posts)They are well documented.
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)When there's no more petrochemicals to be extracted? Or when OPEC makes it no longer profitable to continue (like right now)?
metroins
(2,550 posts)Option becomes more efficient and feasible.
I'm all for better options. It just takes time to scale them up and fracking is already here.
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)That's what the industry has pushed for and received permission to do.
Because apparently we are no longer dependent on foreign oil...? Right?
Actually we are fracking just so the frackers can sell on the open World market (when prices per barrel are high) and make profits, not to quench domestic demand.
Otherwise it would be idiotic to allow export of domestic oil products. And the Obama administration are not idiots.
metroins
(2,550 posts)When it makes sense.
I'm not sure what my opinions have to do with governor brown being thrown under the bus.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)metroins
(2,550 posts)A lot today.
Earlier you said I want to poison people's water.
Seriously, you are insulting me and not having a rational conversation. It is extremely rude.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)either progressive or not. If you choose to support fracking for oil profits over the drinking water of the People, THEN YOU ARE NOT PROGRESSIVE. As far "fixing everything at once." Fracking was a fix. Starting fracking is an ok fix but stopping isn't.
Some people think if they are a little progressive on one issue, bingo-bango they are progressive.
If fracking wasn't so bad, why has Hillary Clinton-Sachs changed her tune? Why doesn't she simply explain that fracking aint so bad if she really believed it?
One day we will be begging for clean drinking water. But the pro-frackers are ok because that will only effect our children.
roody
(10,849 posts)ebayfool
(3,411 posts)I don't feel like my family's health and welfare is a frigging "issue" to be trifled or used as a bargaining tool/pawn. Those that talk about expediency and 'short term' have no clue what it's like for the peons that are living it.
Life isn't about 1 issue, no. BUT being progressive doesn't mean you relegate people's lives to a back burner. It means you multi-task and take on the big issues that affect others. You don't fix everything at once, no. But you damned well make the attempt instead of playing triage on those it most affects and shrug it off with an - Oh well. We'll get to it later. Hope ya'll make it on your own without too many birth defects, breathing problems, cancers, etc. And don't forget to buy bottled water! It's good for the economy! Don't forget to donate to the party and vote Democratic!
Yes, Brown done some good stuff. But he fails miserably on fracking and I won't make excuses for him. He can and should do better. The race for progress isn't over when you have some done. And if he isn't done, why isn't he helping with one of the biggest issues facing the Central Valley? Do you know that 95% of California's fracking is done in 1, count 'em ONE, county?
This is not a Sanders only issue for me, either. Though it is ONE of the reasons I support him. The following is from my Journal, without the Sanders stuff so that maybe, MAYBE! - some of you people will read it ... minus the candidate glasses. This isn't academic speculation. It's real life. It's our families. Not a matter of prioritization of issues. Fracking hits our air. Our water. Our food. Big oil is too powerful to take on at the local level. It takes a big gun, like the governor, to make any headway. And he doesn't take it on in a real, meaningful way.
http://earthjustice.org/blog/2015-december/one-california-countys-fracked-idea
@ 2 miles from home, and there is so many more all over the county.
snip/
Its Kern County, California with around 42,000 active wells . California is the third largest oil producing state, behind Texas and North Dakota. The epicenter of the states oil boom is Kern County, which lies about 100 miles north of Los Angeles in the rural Central Valley. Kern is home to approximately 75 percent of California's oil drilling and 95 percent of the states fracking, and regulators hope to keep the black gold flowing.
Last month, the county board of supervisors approved a new ordinance that would purportedly allow oil and gas companies to fast track drilling permits for tens of thousands of new wells in the next two decades with no environmental review and no public notice or participation. On Thursday, Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against Kern County on behalf of the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), in coordination with the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment and the Center for Biological Diversity. The Earthjustice suit challenges the countys claim that a single environmental review conducted before the ordinance was passed is sufficient to authorize up to 3,647 new oil and gas wells a year for the next 20 years or longer, for a total of 72,000 new wells.
NRDC found that 14 percent of Californians5.4 million peoplelive within one mile of an oil or gas well. Of that group, 69 percent are people of color, most Hispanic or Latino. Low-income communities of color typically face disproportionate financial and health burdens from heavy industry, including oil and gas production. The new wells authorized by the Kern County plan would be built in an area that already has some of the nations worst air quality. According to the American Lung Association, Bakersfield, the largest city in Kern County, is the second worst city in the country for air pollution, both short-term and year-round.
Air pollution from oil and gas wells can exacerbate illnesses like asthma and high blood pressure, and fracking, specifically, has been linked to water pollution, which can occur when massive amounts of fracking wastewater laced with chemicals are injected deep underground. Just one barrel of fracked oil produces 10 barrels of contaminated waste water that must be disposed of.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)I'm sure the state that gave us Jan Brewer has lots of room to criticize.
Response to Starry Messenger (Reply #4)
AZ Progressive This message was self-deleted by its author.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)The state that seized books from schoolchildren when it forbade ethnic studies and literally took books out of the kids' hands.
I guess that's just "identity politics" though.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)looks like the chihuahua just barked
p.s. I got the most humongous traffic ticket in my life a few years ago in AZ while parked in a parking lot. The works. I'd have to sell my car to pay it.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)I guess he thought that insult was really going to resonate when dealing with a state with a high Latino population--he finally got a hide in this sad thread though.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)I'd call that throwing stones from a glass house.
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)I wonder if they would be willing to drink water that was recycled from a treatment plant?
BeyondGeography
(39,393 posts)over their issue celebre.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,393 posts)Is he a Republican, too?
http://www.thenation.com/article/i-used-to-support-bernie-but-then-i-changed-my-mind/
Eko
(7,403 posts)on this op.
Tarc
(10,478 posts)pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)Maedhros
(10,007 posts)AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)let that be your guide going forward
Without the Orwellian spin, what have you got here?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)JTFrog
(14,274 posts)CrowCityDem
(2,348 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Although the state's air quality has improved over the years, Brown said, more must be done to improve Californians' health, and the state must continue setting the standard for halting global warming.
We are talking about the big world of avoiding climate catastrophe, but we are talking about the immediate world of people living in Riverside, Los Angeles and other places, Brown said. This is big. It is big because it is global in scope, but it is also big because it is local in application.
Under the legislation, which builds upon standards already on the books, California will need to generate half of its electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind by 2030. At the same time, the state will need to double energy efficiency in homes, offices and factories.
Bernie: Knows nothing about CA drought issues and tells media this--https://twitter.com/davidsiders/status/737703419633238017
TacoD
(581 posts)AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)TacoD
(581 posts)issues.
BTW it's "you're."
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)Even if Jerry Brown gave into temptation to support fracking, at the very least he isn't trustable. Progressives put the people first.
TacoD
(581 posts)deride you as "no true progressive?" I say no it is not.
And again, the word you are looking for is "you're."
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)wasting California's water.
CrowCityDem
(2,348 posts)Maedhros
(10,007 posts)TacoD
(581 posts)TacoD
(581 posts)Maedhros
(10,007 posts)/ignore.
TacoD
(581 posts)TacoD
(581 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)Because "WAHHHH, Governor Brown didn't endorse my candidate."
Grow up already and try a little reading about my Governor.
Lemme know when Arizona gets anywhere near this progressive.
I won't hold my breath...
Just two years ago, the idea that California could be a global model for anything was laughable. When Brown took office, the state was staggered by double-digit unemployment, a $26 billion deficit and an accumulated "wall of debt" topping $35 billion. California was a punch line for Republican politicos a cautionary tale, they said, of the fate that awaits the nation should it embrace Left Coast-style economic, social and environmental liberalism. On the campaign trail in 2012, Mitt Romney joked that "America is going to become like Greece, or like Spain, or Italy, or like?.?.?.?California."
But in astonishingly short order, America's shrewdest elder statesmen blazed a best-worst way out of California's economic morass. With a stiff cocktail of budget cuts and hard-won new taxes, Brown has not only zeroed out the deficit, he's also begun paying down the debt. "Jerry Brown's leadership is a rebuttal to the failed policies of Republicans in Washington," says Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress. "California is proving you can have sane tax systems, raise revenues, eliminate structural deficits and have economic growth."
A generation later, Brown has picked up where he left off. In 2011, he signed a law requiring California to generate one-third of its power from renewable sources by 2020 including a target of 1 million solar rooftops. He is also reshaping the auto industry, mandating that 15 percent of cars sold in California by 2025 be electric. (Since California has the largest auto market in the country, this mandate will have an influence nationwide.) "We're the most aggressive in the Western Hemisphere in terms of our clean-energy goals," he says. Cap-and-trade may be a dead letter in Congress, but Brown has launched one of the world's most advanced carbon-pollution trading markets, committing the world's ninth-largest economy to reduce its climate pollution to 1990 levels by 2020. "It can serve as a model for the rest of the country," says Rep. Henry Waxman, the ranking Democrat on the House energy committee.
The governor recently solicited a climate report through UC Berkeley, now signed by more than 1,300 scientists, that lays out the consensus on what's required to preserve "humanity's life-support systems." "We've got to wake up!" he insists. As he travels his state, Brown foists the document on every captive audience he encounters, whether it's a convention of nurses, a meeting with his state's top mayors even the president of China, where Brown traveled last spring.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/jerry-browns-tough-love-miracle-20130829
MARCH 2016
Governor Brown and California Democratic legislators raised the states minimum wage to $15 by 2022 with an agreement that also protects the budget and small businesses becoming the first state to reach this milestone. No Republican legislators voted for the law.
OCTOBER 2015
Governor Brown signed one of the nations strongest equal pay laws with bipartisan support to reduce the wage gap for women. California women earn 84 cents for every $1 a man earns for the same work.
OCTOBER 2015
California made clean energy history with the signing of Senate Bill 350, which boosts renewable energy sources like wind and solar to 50% and doubles the energy efficiency of buildings by 2030.
OCTOBER 2015
California Democrats passed SB 703, which prohibits discrimination against transgender people by companies doing business with the state, and SB 713, which aids transgender children in the foster care system to prevent homelessness, victimization, depression, and suicide.
OCTOBER 2015
Governor Jerry Brown responded to a devastating oil spill on the Santa Barbara coast by signing bills to prevent oil spills and strengthen the states response to future spills.
OCTOBER 2015
The California Motor Voter Act makes us a national leader on increasing voter participation by automatically registering California citizens to vote when they apply for, renew, or change their address on a drivers license.
SEPTEMBER 2015
California Democrats passed SB 588 to combat wage theft and ensure hardworking Californians are paid overtime and other earned wages. Wage theft by employers disproportionally affects women and people of color.
MAY 2015
California expanded Medi-Cal to cover all children regardless of their immigration status. The Health for All Kids Act will cover an estimated 170,000 children from families with low incomes.
MAY 2015
Gov. Brown signed the Climate Change Pact together with the leaders of other states and countries to reduce greenhouse gases and promote clean energy. Also known as the "Under 2 MOU," the goal is to keep global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius. As of December 2015 the pact includes 123 jurisdictions representing more than 720 million people and $19.9 trillion in combined GDP. We are building a global force of cities, states and even countries to reduce carbon pollution and protect the wellbeing of people everywhere, said Gov. Brown.
MAY 2015
California Democrats approved a 2015-16 state budget that increased per-pupil K-12 spending by $3,000, froze tuition costs at the UC and CSU systems through 2017, put billions of dollars into rainy day reserves, and expanded health insurance through Medi-Cal for children from low-income families, regardless of their immigration status.
NOVEMBER 2014
Californians approved Propositions 1 and 2 to safeguard California's water supply and to save money to protect schools and public safety services from budget cuts in future recessions.
NOVEMBER 2014
California Democrats added a seat to our 38-member Congressional delegation through our push into previously Republican-held areas. We delivered millions of doorhangers, slate cards, and mailers in targeted state and federal campaigns.
NOVEMBER 2014
California voters reelected Gov. Jerry Brown and again captured every constitutional statewide office and strong Democratic majorities in the California Legislature. The Los Angeles Times said California Democrats had much to celebrate. They swept all eight statewide offices [and] Gov. Jerry Brown trounced his Republican challenger.
APRIL 2014
Nearly 3 million uninsured Californians obtained healthcare in the first year of implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
OCTOBER 2013
California Democrats overcame years of Republican stonewalling and approved Assembly Bill 60 to issue state drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants and improve safety on our roads.
SEPTEMBER 2013
We gave more than 1 million working Californians a raise by raising the minimum wage from $8 to $10 by 2016.
AUGUST 2013
Governor Brown signed the School Success and Opportunity Act, ensuring transgender youth have the opportunity to fully participate and succeed in schools across the state.
SEPTEMBER 2012
We implemented online voter registration, making it easier for Californians to register to vote.
JULY 2013
We passed the Middle Class Scholarship, which slashed student fees at UC and CSU by up to 40% for families making under $100,000.
NOVEMBER 2012
We led the charge to defeat the deceptive Proposition 32, which would have handed more power to corporate special interests.
NOVEMBER 2012
California voters sent nine targeted Republican Congressional incumbents and challengers packing.
NOVEMBER 2012
California Democrats championed Proposition 30 to restore funding to California K-12 schools and community colleges and help end years of teacher layoffs and budget cuts.
JULY 2012
California Democrats passed the Homeowner Bill of Rights to help stop fraudulent foreclosures and predatory lending practices and repair the damage of the foreclosure crisis.
NOVEMBER 2011
It Gets Bluer effort increased Democratic Latino voter turnout in Fresno, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties and led to pickup of Legislative and Congressional seats in 2012.
OCTOBER 2011
Gov. Brown signed the California DREAM Act to open the door for all students to attend college, regardless of their immigration status. Most Republicans opposed the bill.
OCTOBER 2011
Operation Game Changer improved turnout in Los Angeles by converting 50,000 Democrats to become permanent vote-by-mail voters.
NOVEMBER 2010
Californians approved the majority vote state budget with Proposition 25. Californians "made it a lot easier Tuesday for legislators to pass a budget," said the San Francisco Chronicle. Without Republican blocking tactics, Democrats have delivered balanced, on-time budgets since 2011.
NOVEMBER 2010
Californians elected Jerry Brown as governor despite his being outspent 6:1. The San Francisco Chronicle said Brown defied a tsunami of spending by his billionaire opponent. Sen. Barbara Boxer defeated a former corporate CEO who had offshored California jobs, and Democrats swept every constitutional statewide office.
MARCH 2010
President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act to extend health insurance to an estimated 41 million uninsured Americans, despite unrelenting Republican opposition. The landmark law has since survived repeated Republican assaults and two legal challenges in the Supreme Court.
http://www.cadem.org/take-action/accomplishments
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)And most who have posted here are Hillary's chihuahuas...
zappaman
(20,606 posts)Actually most of who have posted here see your OP for the bullshit it is.
"Honest" my ass.
MARCH 2016
Governor Brown and California Democratic legislators raised the states minimum wage to $15 by 2022 with an agreement that also protects the budget and small businesses becoming the first state to reach this milestone. No Republican legislators voted for the law.
OCTOBER 2015
Governor Brown signed one of the nations strongest equal pay laws with bipartisan support to reduce the wage gap for women. California women earn 84 cents for every $1 a man earns for the same work.
OCTOBER 2015
California made clean energy history with the signing of Senate Bill 350, which boosts renewable energy sources like wind and solar to 50% and doubles the energy efficiency of buildings by 2030.
OCTOBER 2015
California Democrats passed SB 703, which prohibits discrimination against transgender people by companies doing business with the state, and SB 713, which aids transgender children in the foster care system to prevent homelessness, victimization, depression, and suicide.
OCTOBER 2015
Governor Jerry Brown responded to a devastating oil spill on the Santa Barbara coast by signing bills to prevent oil spills and strengthen the states response to future spills.
OCTOBER 2015
The California Motor Voter Act makes us a national leader on increasing voter participation by automatically registering California citizens to vote when they apply for, renew, or change their address on a drivers license.
SEPTEMBER 2015
California Democrats passed SB 588 to combat wage theft and ensure hardworking Californians are paid overtime and other earned wages. Wage theft by employers disproportionally affects women and people of color.
MAY 2015
California expanded Medi-Cal to cover all children regardless of their immigration status. The Health for All Kids Act will cover an estimated 170,000 children from families with low incomes.
MAY 2015
Gov. Brown signed the Climate Change Pact together with the leaders of other states and countries to reduce greenhouse gases and promote clean energy. Also known as the "Under 2 MOU," the goal is to keep global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius. As of December 2015 the pact includes 123 jurisdictions representing more than 720 million people and $19.9 trillion in combined GDP. We are building a global force of cities, states and even countries to reduce carbon pollution and protect the wellbeing of people everywhere, said Gov. Brown.
MAY 2015
California Democrats approved a 2015-16 state budget that increased per-pupil K-12 spending by $3,000, froze tuition costs at the UC and CSU systems through 2017, put billions of dollars into rainy day reserves, and expanded health insurance through Medi-Cal for children from low-income families, regardless of their immigration status.
NOVEMBER 2014
Californians approved Propositions 1 and 2 to safeguard California's water supply and to save money to protect schools and public safety services from budget cuts in future recessions.
NOVEMBER 2014
California Democrats added a seat to our 38-member Congressional delegation through our push into previously Republican-held areas. We delivered millions of doorhangers, slate cards, and mailers in targeted state and federal campaigns.
NOVEMBER 2014
California voters reelected Gov. Jerry Brown and again captured every constitutional statewide office and strong Democratic majorities in the California Legislature. The Los Angeles Times said California Democrats had much to celebrate. They swept all eight statewide offices Gov. Jerry Brown trounced his Republican challenger.
APRIL 2014
Nearly 3 million uninsured Californians obtained healthcare in the first year of implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
OCTOBER 2013
California Democrats overcame years of Republican stonewalling and approved Assembly Bill 60 to issue state drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants and improve safety on our roads.
SEPTEMBER 2013
We gave more than 1 million working Californians a raise by raising the minimum wage from $8 to $10 by 2016.
AUGUST 2013
Governor Brown signed the School Success and Opportunity Act, ensuring transgender youth have the opportunity to fully participate and succeed in schools across the state.
SEPTEMBER 2012
We implemented online voter registration, making it easier for Californians to register to vote.
JULY 2013
We passed the Middle Class Scholarship, which slashed student fees at UC and CSU by up to 40% for families making under $100,000.
NOVEMBER 2012
We led the charge to defeat the deceptive Proposition 32, which would have handed more power to corporate special interests.
NOVEMBER 2012
California voters sent nine targeted Republican Congressional incumbents and challengers packing.
NOVEMBER 2012
California Democrats championed Proposition 30 to restore funding to California K-12 schools and community colleges and help end years of teacher layoffs and budget cuts.
JULY 2012
California Democrats passed the Homeowner Bill of Rights to help stop fraudulent foreclosures and predatory lending practices and repair the damage of the foreclosure crisis.
NOVEMBER 2011
It Gets Bluer effort increased Democratic Latino voter turnout in Fresno, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties and led to pickup of Legislative and Congressional seats in 2012.
OCTOBER 2011
Gov. Brown signed the California DREAM Act to open the door for all students to attend college, regardless of their immigration status. Most Republicans opposed the bill.
OCTOBER 2011
Operation Game Changer improved turnout in Los Angeles by converting 50,000 Democrats to become permanent vote-by-mail voters.
NOVEMBER 2010
Californians approved the majority vote state budget with Proposition 25. Californians "made it a lot easier Tuesday for legislators to pass a budget," said the San Francisco Chronicle. Without Republican blocking tactics, Democrats have delivered balanced, on-time budgets since 2011.
NOVEMBER 2010
Californians elected Jerry Brown as governor despite his being outspent 6:1. The San Francisco Chronicle said Brown defied a tsunami of spending by his billionaire opponent. Sen. Barbara Boxer defeated a former corporate CEO who had offshored California jobs, and Democrats swept every constitutional statewide office.
MARCH 2010
President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act to extend health insurance to an estimated 41 million uninsured Americans, despite unrelenting Republican opposition. The landmark law has since survived repeated Republican assaults and two legal challenges in the Supreme Court.
http://www.cadem.org/take-action/accomplishments
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)And BTW, I call em chihuahuas because they are a small but loud group. Most here on DU are Bernie supporters
zappaman
(20,606 posts)Boo fucking hoo.
This OP is bullshit and far, far from anything remotely honest.
MARCH 2016
Governor Brown and California Democratic legislators raised the states minimum wage to $15 by 2022 with an agreement that also protects the budget and small businesses becoming the first state to reach this milestone. No Republican legislators voted for the law.
OCTOBER 2015
Governor Brown signed one of the nations strongest equal pay laws with bipartisan support to reduce the wage gap for women. California women earn 84 cents for every $1 a man earns for the same work.
OCTOBER 2015
California made clean energy history with the signing of Senate Bill 350, which boosts renewable energy sources like wind and solar to 50% and doubles the energy efficiency of buildings by 2030.
OCTOBER 2015
California Democrats passed SB 703, which prohibits discrimination against transgender people by companies doing business with the state, and SB 713, which aids transgender children in the foster care system to prevent homelessness, victimization, depression, and suicide.
OCTOBER 2015
Governor Jerry Brown responded to a devastating oil spill on the Santa Barbara coast by signing bills to prevent oil spills and strengthen the states response to future spills.
OCTOBER 2015
The California Motor Voter Act makes us a national leader on increasing voter participation by automatically registering California citizens to vote when they apply for, renew, or change their address on a drivers license.
SEPTEMBER 2015
California Democrats passed SB 588 to combat wage theft and ensure hardworking Californians are paid overtime and other earned wages. Wage theft by employers disproportionally affects women and people of color.
MAY 2015
California expanded Medi-Cal to cover all children regardless of their immigration status. The Health for All Kids Act will cover an estimated 170,000 children from families with low incomes.
MAY 2015
Gov. Brown signed the Climate Change Pact together with the leaders of other states and countries to reduce greenhouse gases and promote clean energy. Also known as the "Under 2 MOU," the goal is to keep global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius. As of December 2015 the pact includes 123 jurisdictions representing more than 720 million people and $19.9 trillion in combined GDP. We are building a global force of cities, states and even countries to reduce carbon pollution and protect the wellbeing of people everywhere, said Gov. Brown.
MAY 2015
California Democrats approved a 2015-16 state budget that increased per-pupil K-12 spending by $3,000, froze tuition costs at the UC and CSU systems through 2017, put billions of dollars into rainy day reserves, and expanded health insurance through Medi-Cal for children from low-income families, regardless of their immigration status.
NOVEMBER 2014
Californians approved Propositions 1 and 2 to safeguard California's water supply and to save money to protect schools and public safety services from budget cuts in future recessions.
NOVEMBER 2014
California Democrats added a seat to our 38-member Congressional delegation through our push into previously Republican-held areas. We delivered millions of doorhangers, slate cards, and mailers in targeted state and federal campaigns.
NOVEMBER 2014
California voters reelected Gov. Jerry Brown and again captured every constitutional statewide office and strong Democratic majorities in the California Legislature. The Los Angeles Times said California Democrats had much to celebrate. They swept all eight statewide offices Gov. Jerry Brown trounced his Republican challenger.
APRIL 2014
Nearly 3 million uninsured Californians obtained healthcare in the first year of implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
OCTOBER 2013
California Democrats overcame years of Republican stonewalling and approved Assembly Bill 60 to issue state drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants and improve safety on our roads.
SEPTEMBER 2013
We gave more than 1 million working Californians a raise by raising the minimum wage from $8 to $10 by 2016.
AUGUST 2013
Governor Brown signed the School Success and Opportunity Act, ensuring transgender youth have the opportunity to fully participate and succeed in schools across the state.
SEPTEMBER 2012
We implemented online voter registration, making it easier for Californians to register to vote.
JULY 2013
We passed the Middle Class Scholarship, which slashed student fees at UC and CSU by up to 40% for families making under $100,000.
NOVEMBER 2012
We led the charge to defeat the deceptive Proposition 32, which would have handed more power to corporate special interests.
NOVEMBER 2012
California voters sent nine targeted Republican Congressional incumbents and challengers packing.
NOVEMBER 2012
California Democrats championed Proposition 30 to restore funding to California K-12 schools and community colleges and help end years of teacher layoffs and budget cuts.
JULY 2012
California Democrats passed the Homeowner Bill of Rights to help stop fraudulent foreclosures and predatory lending practices and repair the damage of the foreclosure crisis.
NOVEMBER 2011
It Gets Bluer effort increased Democratic Latino voter turnout in Fresno, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties and led to pickup of Legislative and Congressional seats in 2012.
OCTOBER 2011
Gov. Brown signed the California DREAM Act to open the door for all students to attend college, regardless of their immigration status. Most Republicans opposed the bill.
OCTOBER 2011
Operation Game Changer improved turnout in Los Angeles by converting 50,000 Democrats to become permanent vote-by-mail voters.
NOVEMBER 2010
Californians approved the majority vote state budget with Proposition 25. Californians "made it a lot easier Tuesday for legislators to pass a budget," said the San Francisco Chronicle. Without Republican blocking tactics, Democrats have delivered balanced, on-time budgets since 2011.
NOVEMBER 2010
Californians elected Jerry Brown as governor despite his being outspent 6:1. The San Francisco Chronicle said Brown defied a tsunami of spending by his billionaire opponent. Sen. Barbara Boxer defeated a former corporate CEO who had offshored California jobs, and Democrats swept every constitutional statewide office.
MARCH 2010
President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act to extend health insurance to an estimated 41 million uninsured Americans, despite unrelenting Republican opposition. The landmark law has since survived repeated Republican assaults and two legal challenges in the Supreme Court.
http://www.cadem.org/take-action/accomplishments
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)Or rather, it suggests you've been hiding a darker side of you. Same goes with Jerry Brown.
TacoD
(581 posts)this morning.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)fruits and nuts are grown. One should be following what has been going on in California.
BeyondGeography
(39,393 posts)JTFrog
(14,274 posts)Wish I was somehow surprised or shocked.
Be careful you don't fall off that pedestal.
senz
(11,945 posts)Among other things, they discussed the primary.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article79443967.html
ronnykmarshall
(35,356 posts)Or shocked him with some zombie ray, right?
senz
(11,945 posts)Beacool
(30,253 posts)AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)Take the money out of politics and throw the current corrupt bums out. People shouldn't be able to be financially enriched from public service.
amborin
(16,631 posts)amborin
(16,631 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,490 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,821 posts)Jerry Brown is now under the bus. Reason: he endorsed HRC.
Had Jerry Brown endorsed BS, there would be several OPs up right now, extolling his virtues and praising his undeniable bona fides as a True Progressive (TM).
zappaman
(20,606 posts)MARCH 2016
Governor Brown and California Democratic legislators raised the states minimum wage to $15 by 2022 with an agreement that also protects the budget and small businesses becoming the first state to reach this milestone. No Republican legislators voted for the law.
OCTOBER 2015
Governor Brown signed one of the nations strongest equal pay laws with bipartisan support to reduce the wage gap for women. California women earn 84 cents for every $1 a man earns for the same work.
OCTOBER 2015
California made clean energy history with the signing of Senate Bill 350, which boosts renewable energy sources like wind and solar to 50% and doubles the energy efficiency of buildings by 2030.
OCTOBER 2015
California Democrats passed SB 703, which prohibits discrimination against transgender people by companies doing business with the state, and SB 713, which aids transgender children in the foster care system to prevent homelessness, victimization, depression, and suicide.
OCTOBER 2015
Governor Jerry Brown responded to a devastating oil spill on the Santa Barbara coast by signing bills to prevent oil spills and strengthen the states response to future spills.
OCTOBER 2015
The California Motor Voter Act makes us a national leader on increasing voter participation by automatically registering California citizens to vote when they apply for, renew, or change their address on a drivers license.
SEPTEMBER 2015
California Democrats passed SB 588 to combat wage theft and ensure hardworking Californians are paid overtime and other earned wages. Wage theft by employers disproportionally affects women and people of color.
MAY 2015
California expanded Medi-Cal to cover all children regardless of their immigration status. The Health for All Kids Act will cover an estimated 170,000 children from families with low incomes.
MAY 2015
Gov. Brown signed the Climate Change Pact together with the leaders of other states and countries to reduce greenhouse gases and promote clean energy. Also known as the "Under 2 MOU," the goal is to keep global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius. As of December 2015 the pact includes 123 jurisdictions representing more than 720 million people and $19.9 trillion in combined GDP. We are building a global force of cities, states and even countries to reduce carbon pollution and protect the wellbeing of people everywhere, said Gov. Brown.
MAY 2015
California Democrats approved a 2015-16 state budget that increased per-pupil K-12 spending by $3,000, froze tuition costs at the UC and CSU systems through 2017, put billions of dollars into rainy day reserves, and expanded health insurance through Medi-Cal for children from low-income families, regardless of their immigration status.
NOVEMBER 2014
Californians approved Propositions 1 and 2 to safeguard California's water supply and to save money to protect schools and public safety services from budget cuts in future recessions.
NOVEMBER 2014
California Democrats added a seat to our 38-member Congressional delegation through our push into previously Republican-held areas. We delivered millions of doorhangers, slate cards, and mailers in targeted state and federal campaigns.
NOVEMBER 2014
California voters reelected Gov. Jerry Brown and again captured every constitutional statewide office and strong Democratic majorities in the California Legislature. The Los Angeles Times said California Democrats had much to celebrate. They swept all eight statewide offices Gov. Jerry Brown trounced his Republican challenger.
APRIL 2014
Nearly 3 million uninsured Californians obtained healthcare in the first year of implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
OCTOBER 2013
California Democrats overcame years of Republican stonewalling and approved Assembly Bill 60 to issue state drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants and improve safety on our roads.
SEPTEMBER 2013
We gave more than 1 million working Californians a raise by raising the minimum wage from $8 to $10 by 2016.
AUGUST 2013
Governor Brown signed the School Success and Opportunity Act, ensuring transgender youth have the opportunity to fully participate and succeed in schools across the state.
SEPTEMBER 2012
We implemented online voter registration, making it easier for Californians to register to vote.
JULY 2013
We passed the Middle Class Scholarship, which slashed student fees at UC and CSU by up to 40% for families making under $100,000.
NOVEMBER 2012
We led the charge to defeat the deceptive Proposition 32, which would have handed more power to corporate special interests.
NOVEMBER 2012
California voters sent nine targeted Republican Congressional incumbents and challengers packing.
NOVEMBER 2012
California Democrats championed Proposition 30 to restore funding to California K-12 schools and community colleges and help end years of teacher layoffs and budget cuts.
JULY 2012
California Democrats passed the Homeowner Bill of Rights to help stop fraudulent foreclosures and predatory lending practices and repair the damage of the foreclosure crisis.
NOVEMBER 2011
It Gets Bluer effort increased Democratic Latino voter turnout in Fresno, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties and led to pickup of Legislative and Congressional seats in 2012.
OCTOBER 2011
Gov. Brown signed the California DREAM Act to open the door for all students to attend college, regardless of their immigration status. Most Republicans opposed the bill.
OCTOBER 2011
Operation Game Changer improved turnout in Los Angeles by converting 50,000 Democrats to become permanent vote-by-mail voters.
NOVEMBER 2010
Californians approved the majority vote state budget with Proposition 25. Californians "made it a lot easier Tuesday for legislators to pass a budget," said the San Francisco Chronicle. Without Republican blocking tactics, Democrats have delivered balanced, on-time budgets since 2011.
NOVEMBER 2010
Californians elected Jerry Brown as governor despite his being outspent 6:1. The San Francisco Chronicle said Brown defied a tsunami of spending by his billionaire opponent. Sen. Barbara Boxer defeated a former corporate CEO who had offshored California jobs, and Democrats swept every constitutional statewide office.
MARCH 2010
President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act to extend health insurance to an estimated 41 million uninsured Americans, despite unrelenting Republican opposition. The landmark law has since survived repeated Republican assaults and two legal challenges in the Supreme Court.
http://www.cadem.org/take-action/accomplishments
BootinUp
(47,209 posts)AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)Let us know when you Arizonans elect a governor even 10% as progressive as Brown.
I won't hold my breath.
MARCH 2016
Governor Brown and California Democratic legislators raised the states minimum wage to $15 by 2022 with an agreement that also protects the budget and small businesses becoming the first state to reach this milestone. No Republican legislators voted for the law.
OCTOBER 2015
Governor Brown signed one of the nations strongest equal pay laws with bipartisan support to reduce the wage gap for women. California women earn 84 cents for every $1 a man earns for the same work.
OCTOBER 2015
California made clean energy history with the signing of Senate Bill 350, which boosts renewable energy sources like wind and solar to 50% and doubles the energy efficiency of buildings by 2030.
OCTOBER 2015
California Democrats passed SB 703, which prohibits discrimination against transgender people by companies doing business with the state, and SB 713, which aids transgender children in the foster care system to prevent homelessness, victimization, depression, and suicide.
OCTOBER 2015
Governor Jerry Brown responded to a devastating oil spill on the Santa Barbara coast by signing bills to prevent oil spills and strengthen the states response to future spills.
OCTOBER 2015
The California Motor Voter Act makes us a national leader on increasing voter participation by automatically registering California citizens to vote when they apply for, renew, or change their address on a drivers license.
SEPTEMBER 2015
California Democrats passed SB 588 to combat wage theft and ensure hardworking Californians are paid overtime and other earned wages. Wage theft by employers disproportionally affects women and people of color.
MAY 2015
California expanded Medi-Cal to cover all children regardless of their immigration status. The Health for All Kids Act will cover an estimated 170,000 children from families with low incomes.
MAY 2015
Gov. Brown signed the Climate Change Pact together with the leaders of other states and countries to reduce greenhouse gases and promote clean energy. Also known as the "Under 2 MOU," the goal is to keep global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius. As of December 2015 the pact includes 123 jurisdictions representing more than 720 million people and $19.9 trillion in combined GDP. We are building a global force of cities, states and even countries to reduce carbon pollution and protect the wellbeing of people everywhere, said Gov. Brown.
MAY 2015
California Democrats approved a 2015-16 state budget that increased per-pupil K-12 spending by $3,000, froze tuition costs at the UC and CSU systems through 2017, put billions of dollars into rainy day reserves, and expanded health insurance through Medi-Cal for children from low-income families, regardless of their immigration status.
NOVEMBER 2014
Californians approved Propositions 1 and 2 to safeguard California's water supply and to save money to protect schools and public safety services from budget cuts in future recessions.
NOVEMBER 2014
California Democrats added a seat to our 38-member Congressional delegation through our push into previously Republican-held areas. We delivered millions of doorhangers, slate cards, and mailers in targeted state and federal campaigns.
NOVEMBER 2014
California voters reelected Gov. Jerry Brown and again captured every constitutional statewide office and strong Democratic majorities in the California Legislature. The Los Angeles Times said California Democrats had much to celebrate. They swept all eight statewide offices Gov. Jerry Brown trounced his Republican challenger.
APRIL 2014
Nearly 3 million uninsured Californians obtained healthcare in the first year of implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
OCTOBER 2013
California Democrats overcame years of Republican stonewalling and approved Assembly Bill 60 to issue state drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants and improve safety on our roads.
SEPTEMBER 2013
We gave more than 1 million working Californians a raise by raising the minimum wage from $8 to $10 by 2016.
AUGUST 2013
Governor Brown signed the School Success and Opportunity Act, ensuring transgender youth have the opportunity to fully participate and succeed in schools across the state.
SEPTEMBER 2012
We implemented online voter registration, making it easier for Californians to register to vote.
JULY 2013
We passed the Middle Class Scholarship, which slashed student fees at UC and CSU by up to 40% for families making under $100,000.
NOVEMBER 2012
We led the charge to defeat the deceptive Proposition 32, which would have handed more power to corporate special interests.
NOVEMBER 2012
California voters sent nine targeted Republican Congressional incumbents and challengers packing.
NOVEMBER 2012
California Democrats championed Proposition 30 to restore funding to California K-12 schools and community colleges and help end years of teacher layoffs and budget cuts.
JULY 2012
California Democrats passed the Homeowner Bill of Rights to help stop fraudulent foreclosures and predatory lending practices and repair the damage of the foreclosure crisis.
NOVEMBER 2011
It Gets Bluer effort increased Democratic Latino voter turnout in Fresno, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties and led to pickup of Legislative and Congressional seats in 2012.
OCTOBER 2011
Gov. Brown signed the California DREAM Act to open the door for all students to attend college, regardless of their immigration status. Most Republicans opposed the bill.
OCTOBER 2011
Operation Game Changer improved turnout in Los Angeles by converting 50,000 Democrats to become permanent vote-by-mail voters.
NOVEMBER 2010
Californians approved the majority vote state budget with Proposition 25. Californians "made it a lot easier Tuesday for legislators to pass a budget," said the San Francisco Chronicle. Without Republican blocking tactics, Democrats have delivered balanced, on-time budgets since 2011.
NOVEMBER 2010
Californians elected Jerry Brown as governor despite his being outspent 6:1. The San Francisco Chronicle said Brown defied a tsunami of spending by his billionaire opponent. Sen. Barbara Boxer defeated a former corporate CEO who had offshored California jobs, and Democrats swept every constitutional statewide office.
MARCH 2010
President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act to extend health insurance to an estimated 41 million uninsured Americans, despite unrelenting Republican opposition. The landmark law has since survived repeated Republican assaults and two legal challenges in the Supreme Court.
http://www.cadem.org/take-action/accomplishments
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Dem2
(8,168 posts)This is getting stupid - no Democrat would be tossing other Democrats under the bus like this.
woolldog
(8,791 posts)thanks for posting.
Mnpaul
(3,655 posts)just before they announced Brown's endorsement
brooklynite
(94,911 posts)...they're incredibly creative at finding reasons to explain why their candidate is losing.
Response to brooklynite (Reply #79)
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Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Or should I say...what is a Samders and which spports would you play with it?
DCBob
(24,689 posts)This is a huge endorsement and will likely give Hillary a major bump. June 7th is going to be a great day for team Clinton and a disaster for Sanders.
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)ronnykmarshall
(35,356 posts)Jerry under the bus.
So fucking predictable.
AzDar
(14,023 posts)ebayfool
(3,411 posts)fracking. I look through the thread and see very little concern for the problem, but lots of cheerleading for fracking as long as it benefits the Clinton campaign (Brown's endorsement). And listing the Calif Dems Legislature's accomplishments does NOT make them Brown's accomplishments. He is a PART of those accomplishments, but he doesn't get all the credit for other Democrat's hard work.
snips from your link/
In May 2013, Brown called fracking a fabulous economic opportunity that he had to balance against his commitment to climate protection. He has resisted calls to sign an executive order imposing a moratorium or ban on fracking, which as governor he has the authority to do at any time. Instead, last September he signed California Senate Bill 4, which allows fracking to continue but requires drillers to notify regulators and nearby residents in advance; SB 4 also requires the state to monitor water quality near fracking sites, and to complete a study of frackings environmental and other implications by 2015. (In 2005, George W. Bush signed a law that largely exempts fracking from the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act and other major federal oversight.) In case anyone still wondered, Mark Nechodom, the director of the Conservation Department, told a public panel last October in no uncertain terms: Governor Brown supports hydraulic fracturing.
Environmentalists have also voiced suspicions about the $500,000 that Occidental Petroleum, long one of Californias top oil companies, contributed to Browns campaign in 2012 to pass Proposition 30, which raised taxes on wealthy Californians to fund increased spending on public educationgenerally not the kind of initiative that big corporations favor. Occidentals contributions came a few months after Brown fired the previous director and deputy director of the Conservation Department, following complaints from the oil industry that DOGGR was too slow in granting drilling permits. When a Los Angeles Times article linked the two firings to industry complaints, the governors office pointedly did not issue a denial.
That was a clear signal to the industryboth the firings and the nondenial, said a former administration official familiar with the decision.
But by far the biggest development in the fracking debate is one Brown had nothing to do with: on May 20, the bottom dropped out of the economic case for fracking in California when federal officials slashedby a whopping 96 percenttheir estimate of how much recoverable oil is contained in the Monterey Shale. So much for the initially projected 13.7 billion barrels of oil that had oil companies salivating. The Energy Information Agencys new estimate is that the Monterey Shale contains a mere 600 million barrels of oil. This [EIA] report hammers the final nail in the coffin for oil companies ludicrous claims that fracking is the key to Californias prosperity, said Zack Malitz, a campaigner with CREDO, an activist group coordinating opposition to fracking in the state.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)STILL an unapologetic defender of mass incarceration, the 1980's "mega-prison" boom, and the "three strikes" laws.
STILL(AFAIK) a supporter of the death penalty.
And, when it mattered, a convert to the cause of Proposition 13(even though he knew that measure would gut the UC system, state environmental protection laws, state labor law enforcement and the social wage-in other words, even though he knew Prop. 13 would make it impossible for a Democratic governor to do anything recognizable Democratic while in office).
Other than being mildly pro-farmworker in the Seventies(and not since)Brown has never been progressive on any issues that actually mattered, or on any where he had to come anywhere close to standing to the 1%(such as his complete refusal, throughout California's water crisis, to ask the state's almond growers to even slow down on planting new almond trees-despite the fact that almond growing uses up more water than virtually any other crop in the state).
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)to complain. If he ever had real power, he wouldn't know what to do except complain.
He's no team player, that's why he's been independent.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Now Jerry Brown doesn't make the cut.
What a joke.
ebayfool
(3,411 posts)Really? No addressing the points brought up? Just knee-jerk support of fracking because Brown's a Democrat.
What I'm seeing here is that the Democrats that are affected by fracking don't matter, because they aren't the right Democrats. The issue of Brown's support of fracking and nobody seems to have a problem with it IS the joke. On Californians.
Read the WHOLE thread. That's embarrassing.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)The wheels on your bus go round and round, well-suited for throwing the latest apostate-of-the-week under.