California voters likely to keep global warming law, toss two-thirds budget passage

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Source: LA Times

Prop. 23, which would suspend new emissions standards until unemployment drops, trails 48% to 32% among likely voters. Prop. 25, allowing a legislative majority to pass a budget, has 58% support.

Despite the struggling economy, most California voters oppose suspending the state's landmark global warming law, which would place strict new environmental regulations on business, a new Los Angeles Times/ USC poll shows.

Proposition 23, which would put the new emissions standards on hold, is trailing 48% to 32% among likely voters, according to the survey.

But as voters look inclined to stay the course with the state's global warming policies, they appear ready to radically change state budget policy. The poll found that 58% of likely voters support Proposition 25, which would replace the constitutional requirement that the state budget be approved by two-thirds of the Legislature with a simple majority vote requirement. Such a change would allow Democrats to pass a budget without any GOP votes under the current makeup of the Legislature.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-poll-20101025,0,1234526.story

[wtmusic]

1. And Whitman/Fiorina are toast.

There will be hope in CA under Brown. :thumbsup:

[lolly]

2. Very expensive toast

Guess you don't get what you pay for when you try to buy an election!

[Joe Bacon]

6. Oh, they're more like charred crumpets!

Toast is just too common and demeaning for either one of them :evilgrin:

[Radical Activist]

3. Thank god.

Keeping the standards will create more jobs anyway. Building cleaner sources of energy creates more jobs than keeping old coal plants running.

[strategery blunder]

4. Hopefully CA will actually be able to pass a budget after Nov.

Without the usual 13 months of drama.

[demosincebirth]

5. We also need to end term-limits.

[Bette Noir]

7. Looks to me like we Californians are too smart to be bought.

A lot of money went into political ads this year.

I mostly watch news shows out of New York, on cable, so I hadn't noticed how saturated the airwaves have been with political ads. I was watching local news Friday, hoping to catch some of Obama's LA visit, and was pummeled by right-wing ads, mercilessly. A channel would show the same ad three or four times in an hour.

I'm sorry, but Carly Fiorina's face is not one you want to look at that much. Somebody want to tell me again, how attractive Republican women are?

[reggie the dog]

10. please vote to legalize cannabis!

people like me will have a free state to migrate to then

[meowomon]

8. Clean energy is the future

and will create jobs if the rethuglicans will quit getting down on their knees with the big oil companies.

[Moonbat2]

9. Vote Brown

I would love to see Brown elected{: