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Arnie's no Green

 I must write in response to the disastrous exaggeration:
  "Far from being the merciless robo-governor some feared, Arnold Schwarzenegger has proved himself a green thinker, unveiling groundbreaking climate policies that put his state well ahead of the rest of the country." Quoted from the weekly Grist.

  Actually, I think "merciless Robo-Governor," has a nice ring to it. Governor Schwarzenegger is hardly a true friend of the environmental community in California or anywhere. He vetoed 50% of the environmental bills that got to his desk last year. His piece-meal signing of AB32, indeed a groundbreaking global warming bill, was done in an effort to salvage his environmental record going into a tight election. After signing this bill he vetoed many other very important greenhouse gas reduction bills.
  He also succeeded in taking credit for this bill as though it was his idea(note: photo-op con Tony Blair), even though AB32 was clearly the work of a coalition of over 45 environmental groups, plus some real enviro heroes in the Sac leg, prioritizing global warming and putting the lobby pressure on extra thick. Two weeks after signing the bill, Arnie passed an executive order to include carbon trading, which arguably hurts low-income communities.
  It is embarrassing, to say the least, that Grist (such a reputable environmental news source) would ever be convinced by (and further propagate) the strategic propaganda programs executed by the Arnie campaign in Fall '06. The fact that Arnie has come out with green rhetoric again, is simply an opportunistic way of furthering his political career.  
 Well, I for one, and I recommend the rest of the informed environmentalists out there in blog land, should not be so easily fooled. Until the bills start rolling off his desk in 2007 we should leave a very watchful eye on the governors office.
  *Let's remember he ran on a platform in '05 that said he wouldn't take special interest money (he was rich, so he didn't need to, right?), and then he proceeded to take more campaign handouts than any Governor in California history.  
    On An interview with California environmental adviser Terry Tamminen posted 2 years, 10 months ago 8 Responses