Groundswell: CLCV Blog

No surprises here, just reminders of where this Governor has always stood. A few choice quotes from today’s Capitol Alert: “The governor twice this week portrayed environmental regulations as a barrier to job creation, at one point Tuesday suggesting that some environmentalists ‘become fanatics and they go overboard’ when they object to green technology projects.”

On January 21, the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion that represents a dramatic overhaul of the nation’s campaign finance system. In a 5-4 decision on Citizens United vs. FEC, the court declared that corporations are allowed to make unlimited independent expenditures to influence the outcomes of federal elections.

According to the Washington Post:

That’s the question asked by reporter John Myers (of the California Report) regarding Governor Schwarzenegger’s decision to link funding of the state’s parks to new offshore oil drilling in his just-released budget proposal.

Myers tweeted: “Guv links $200 mil from the controversial T-Ridge oil drilling project 2 help pay for #caparks. Quite a political move: parks vs. drilling?”