Comments on: AB32, Trump help Schwarzenegger repair reputation

By: fletch92131

fletch92131 — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:00:52 +0000

In reply to Ron. Ron, great comment,, if you don't mind I'm going to use as justification for NOT doing anything about global warming.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 19:19:24 +0000

Brown and Schwarzenegger (Gov.’s B&S) pushed through AB32 and its follow on legislation. AB32 even survived a referendum. The new cap and trade legislation will supposedly cost 20-25 Billion dollars annually. That’s $1500 per household and the inland valleys and rural areas will be hit hardest with rising electricity and fuel costs. Environmentalists have complained about AB32 because it was too easy to hit the emission targets. Perhaps there is enough pain in this new legislation that citizens will feel it. What will the Gov.’s B&S legacy look like then?

By: Dude

Dude — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 21:16:11 +0000

It’s simple. Arnold looks great compared to Governor Brownstreak.

By: Richard Rider

Richard Rider — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 18:51:57 +0000

Here’s the case FOR Gerrymandering — itself a FAR less than perfect way to elect representatives. Given that we still insist on “winner take all” single rep district elections (unlike many countries in the world), Gerrymandering gives the minority party a roughly representative number of the state legislative positions.

Let’s assume that instead of Gerrymandering, we had “fair” districts drawn — seeking a balanced diversity in each district.

Looking at the 2016 Presidential CA vote totals, 63.8% of the voters voted for the Democrat or liberal third party candidates. The remaining 36.1% voted for Republican or the Libertarian Party candidate.

If each district were drawn “fairly,” than each district would have about a 64% liberal majority. It’s quite likely that in this case the result would be that (like Venezuela) 100% of the elected district representatives would be Democrats!!

Is that “representative Democracy? I think not. Better to Gerrymander so that libertarians and conservatives have some representation in the state legislative houses.

Yeah, it probably would not be 100% due to local demographics. But it WOULD likely be an 80-20 split favoring Democrats — again, not a fair representation of the electorate.

That being said, I have a better solution to suggest — proportional representation in at least one state legislature. If the voters vote 36% for Republicans, the Republicans get 36% of the legislative seats. This is a technique used by a number of other countries, and it is far more fair than our single representative district elections.

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 18:28:45 +0000

Even though humans were on earth 200,000 years ago, about 18,000 years ago when virtually few humans lived on earth, there was no industrialization pollution, and no emissions, the most recent glacial age was near its peak, and vast expanses of the northern continents were covered by glacial ice. Maybe Governor Brown and Schwarzenegger can explain the climate change that caused the meltdown and produced many of our National Parks such as Yosemite and the Grand Canyon.