Following the Money on Prop. 23 - Pulse of the Bay
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Who is paying the Proposition 23 campaign bills? KQED has created a clever Google map illustrating where the biggest contributors to the campaigns for and against the initiative live.(http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=105270551637173844123....)
A quick glance shows that more of the “Yes on 23” money is coming from out-of-state, with big money donations pouring in from San Antonio, Texas, Witchita, Kan., Smithville, Mo., and Washington, D.C. Major funders include oil interests, Valero, Tesoro and Koch Industries. (http://www.baycitizen.org/proposition-23/story/report-highlights-prop-backers-po...)
But the “No on 23” campaign is getting some big donations from far-flung allies, too, in New York City and Lummi Island, Wash. In California, some of the largest donations to "No on 23" are coming from Silicon Valley, with venture capitalist John Doerr and his wife Ann Doerr kicking in $2 million.
Prop. 23 would suspend AB 32,California’s land-mark greenhouse-gas emissions law, until the state’s unemployment rate reaches 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters. With unemployment currently stuck above 12 percent, the initiative would nullify the state’s global warming law for years.
With Congress failing to pass a clean energy bill this year, the national battle over climate change has shifted to California, which has the toughest global warming law on the books in the country. Since Prop. 23 could stall that law, the big donations from out-of-state underscore the importance of this initiative in the national debate over how to address global warming.
A quick glance shows that more of the “Yes on 23” money is coming from out-of-state, with big money donations pouring in from San Antonio, Texas, Witchita, Kan., Smithville, Mo., and Washington, D.C. Major funders include oil interests, Valero, Tesoro and Koch Industries. (http://www.baycitizen.org/proposition-23/story/report-highlights-prop-backers-po...)
But the “No on 23” campaign is getting some big donations from far-flung allies, too, in New York City and Lummi Island, Wash. In California, some of the largest donations to "No on 23" are coming from Silicon Valley, with venture capitalist John Doerr and his wife Ann Doerr kicking in $2 million.
Prop. 23 would suspend AB 32,California’s land-mark greenhouse-gas emissions law, until the state’s unemployment rate reaches 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters. With unemployment currently stuck above 12 percent, the initiative would nullify the state’s global warming law for years.
With Congress failing to pass a clean energy bill this year, the national battle over climate change has shifted to California, which has the toughest global warming law on the books in the country. Since Prop. 23 could stall that law, the big donations from out-of-state underscore the importance of this initiative in the national debate over how to address global warming.
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