This weekend, we will see a full-page ad in the California newspapers (just in case anyone still reads newspapers).
I heard about the ad via the internets' version of newpaper, or the newpaper version of the internets.
http://www.sfgate.com/...
Leave it to our California activists to transform the California vs Texas World Series into a chance to make a political statement.
On Sunday, a huge print ad will run in various publications opposing Prop 23 -- the measure that would overturn California's ground-breaking 2006 climate change law.
It's the most creative static political ad I've seen in a long time.
We not only need Prop 23 to fail, we need an EPIC FAIL.
Also out today, a decent, brief Tube by a guy with whom I went to high school. You know who I mean. He was in that movie about that Gabriel Garcia Marquez book. And that one TV show.
Remember that cop/lawyer show? Well, anyway, he's an actor, and here to tell you about Prop 23 in less than a minute.
http://www.stopdirtyenergyprop.com/...
Two Texas oil companies are spending millions to push Prop. 23, a deceptive ballot proposition that would kill California clean energy and air pollution reduction standards. Four years ago, California passed a clean air law (AB 32) that holds polluters accountable and requires them to reduce air pollution that threatens human health and contributes to global climate change. This law has launched California to the forefront of the clean technology industry, sparking innovation and clean energy businesses that are creating hundreds of thousands of new California jobs.
As usual, Van Jones knows what's up.
I'll give him the last word:
No on California Prop 23: Reversing Course on Climate Policy Is the Real Job Killer
Proposition 23 would destroy half a million jobs in California (many in construction and high-tech manufacturing) by 2020 while costing the state $80 billion in gross domestic product. This number does not even include the $20 billion in GDP growth and 100,000 new clean energy jobs California can create in the next 10 years if its environmental and clean energy policies are upheld (and Proposition 23 is voted down).
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Clean energy is one part of the economy that will continue to experience substantial growth, despite the persistence of a potent national recession. With our planet and pocketbooks in peril, the clean energy economy is helping to create jobs as well as fight pollution and climate change.
It's bad enough for business that China is now the most attractive market for investing in renewable energy; today the U.S. is ranked number 2 on the list, but where will we be in ten years if we repeal the most aggressive clean energy policy we have?