Californians on the Governor's Race

Issues: Air Quality, Clean & Renewable Energy, Environmental Justice | Content Type: You Report
Posted Thu, 2010-10-28 15:03 by Jason L. Gohlke
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Gubernatorial Debate, Fresno

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Event date(s): 
Sat, 2010-10-02 11:00 - 12:30

Voters will now have at least three chances to watch the gubernatorial candidates go head to head on the issues before the Nov. 2 election.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown today said he has accepted an invitation to debate Republican rival Meg Whitman on Oct. 2. The debate, sponsored by the Fresno Bee and Spanish-language network Univisión, will be held at California State University, Fresno, at 11 a.m. and broadcast on Univisión at 4 p.m. that day. Whitman had already agreed to participate.Read more

Brown Denounces Oil-Addicting Proposition 23 and Calls on Whitman to Explain Double Talk

Issues: Air Quality, Clean & Renewable Energy, Global Warming | Content Type: You Report
Posted Thu, 2010-09-23 13:45 by Anonymous

Appearing at the nation's largest, privately-owned solar and roofing company, Attorney General Jerry Brown today denounced Texas oil-funded Proposition 23, and called on Meg Whitman to be honest with Californians about her plans to dismantle the state's program to fight global warming.Read more

Gubernatorial endorsement Sept. 21

Issues: Air Quality, Clean & Renewable Energy, Environmental Justice | Content Type: You Report
Posted Thu, 2010-09-16 13:09 by JenesseMiller

The California League of Conservation Voters launched the "Build a Greener Governor" campaign one year prior to the November 2nd general election, when voters will choose their next governor. Our goal: to involved as many of our members and other environmental voters in California in a conversation about what it would take for the candidates to be able to claim the title of "environmental champion." Read more

Governor's Debate at Dominican University, San Rafael

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Event date(s): 
Tue, 2010-10-12 06:30 - 07:30

The California Governor's Debate will be a 60-minute program with questions asked of the candidates by moderator Tom Brokaw.

Questions and topics are at the discretion of the moderator.

Invitations to participate in the debate have been sent to candidates polling higher than 10% in a statewide poll including the winning candidates from the June 8th Republican and Democratic primaries. 

The debate will be held before a live audience in Dominican’s historic Angelico Hall.Read more

Exciting Times for Building a Greener Governor

Issues: Air Quality, Clean & Renewable Energy, Environmental Justice | Content Type: You Report
Posted Thu, 2010-08-05 09:08 by JenesseMiller

The last few weeks have been BIG for the campaign to elect an environmental champion as governor of California.  First, we marked the 100 day countdown to the November 2 election, when Californians will elect a new governor, replacing termed-out governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.  It's a nice round number that reminds us how quickly this very important election will be upon us.Read more

Gubernatorial Debate at UC-Davis

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Event date(s): 
Tue, 2010-09-28 06:00 - 07:00

Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown will debate September 28 on the UC Davis campus. The first debate between the Democratic and Republican candidates for governor of California will take place from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. PDT in the UC Davis Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.

Brown announced in July that he has agreed to participate in 10 debates and forums leading up to the Nov. 2 general election.Read more

Whitman's new booklet edits her positions on AB 32

Issues: Air Quality, Clean & Renewable Energy, Global Warming | Content Type: You Report
Posted Fri, 2010-07-16 14:43 by JenesseMiller

Meg Whitman's planning to mail her updated glossy booklet of policy positions to California voters in advance of the general election, as she did before the primary election. (Yes, that will be expensive. That's the subject of another blog.) But as Capital Notes' John Myers pointed out in his recent blog, one of the most noticable changes was the candidate's description of her position on the Global Warming Solutions Act, AB 32.

According to Myers:Read more

By Opposing High-Speed Rail, Whitman Shows True Colors on Jobs

Issues: Green Jobs, Transportation | Content Type: You Report
Posted Fri, 2010-07-09 15:28 by Anonymous

By the California Labor Federation

Billionaire CEO Meg Whitman continued her hypocrisy on jobs yesterday, coming out in opposition to high-speed rail and the hundreds of thousands of jobs it would create. Whitman spokeswoman Sarah Pompei told the Sacramento Bee that Whitman opposes the project because the state can't "afford" high-speed rail.Read more

The primary is over. What's next?

Issues: Air Quality, Clean & Renewable Energy, Environmental Justice | Content Type: You Report
Posted Thu, 2010-06-10 12:15 by JenesseMiller

Like some of you, I have a little of the post-primary blues. OK, maybe NONE of you feel anything close to the blues in the wake of the June 8th primary, and I'm all alone here.

That's OK. The important thing to ask ourselves, bluesy or not, is, what do we do now?Read more