I think most of us agree the budget should be the top issue in race in the 19th senate district. Some favor higher taxes, some favor cuts to the budget only, and others favor a mix of the two options.
But this entry isn't about the top issue, it is about what should the other top issues should be. What are your top issues, they might be related to, but isn't the budget? In the above video a group of environmentalists are taking on Tony Strickland's record at a press conference because they think he is greenwashing his actual support for alternative energy.
His website only says this about his energy plans:
Reducing Our Dependence on Foreign Oil:
As Vice President of GreenWave Energy Solutions, a company created to harness the power of ocean waves, Tony Strickland is helping to invest in new, innovative, clean and renewable energy sources to help reduce our dependence on foreign oil and help jumpstart California's economy.
Do you think he should be more specific on this issue if it is going to be the center of his campaign? I am surprised more people haven't been calling him out on his complete lack of specifics about how to support alternative energy.
What are your top issues for a state senate candidate? Is it alternative energy?
Brian,
Exactly who is supposed to be calling Tony out? Isn't that the job of the media, like Ventura County Star reporters? Sounds like a great article to me! As for Hannah-Beth's supporters, we're talking to everyone in Ventura County-- I spent my Labor Day calling voters and telling them of Strickland's "greenwashing."
I make a living in the environmental protection field, and I have to say clean air, water, and soil are at the top of my list of priorities. I've watched a lot of my work dry up due to Bush's bleeding of the EPA to pay for his Iraq debacle. I'd love to see Obama turn that around and put money where it is desperately needed, in environmental protection.
Back to the 19th Senate Race: Hannah-Beth Jackson definitely is the superior candidate if you care about the environment. While in the Assembly she wrote over 30 bills designed to help the environment covering issues like alternative energy, reducing coastal pollution, protecting against pesticides and keeping open spaces. She was the chair of two Assembly committees whose work focused on environmental protection: the Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee, and the Committee on Natural Resources. She's also received awards from many pro-environment groups based on her leadership in this area.
Strickland, on the other hand, has a legislative history that shows he does not care about the environment and he's not interested in alternative energy. While in the Assembly, he voted 119 out of 121 times against protecting the environment. He also voted against every bill requiring energy conservation, which is funny, because I keep getting reminders from SoCalEdison to conserve!!!
Making Waves has covered much better than I the total sham of a company Tony started with his political buddies to harvest energy from waves. Tony must not believe it can work, because I've read he didn't even pony up any of his own seed money.
The choice could not be clearer in the election for the 19th SD. If you care about the environment, vote for Hannah-Beth Jackson. If you care about public health, education, health care, alternative energy, getting our economy back on the right track, and a State Legislature that works again, vote for Hannah-Beth Jackson.
Have you ever seen a sorrier bunch of meat-deprived, tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, tie-dying, Wal-Mart hating, global warming reciting, Kool-Aid drinking, sad sacks in your life?
And check out the guy holding the microphone. Why, it's none other than Santa Barbara's very own Das Williams. The head Wal-Mart hater himself. This is the guy who's going to teach Ventura how to be just like Santa Barbara.
God help us.
These are your typical Hannah-Beth Jackson supporters, folks. These are the Santa Barbara/Montecito/Summerland/Carpinteria elitists that want Ventura County to join with them in supporting the biggest tax-and-spend liberal this side of the Mississippi - Miss Hannah-Beth "Taxin'" Jackson.
Ladies and gentlemen, I beseech you. Don't fall for this sham. Once she gets in, she will work with all the diligence she can muster to tax the living bejeezus out of each and every one of us. Hannah-Beth Jackson is someone that none of us, except maybe the rich liberals in Santa Barbara, can afford.
Tony Strickland is running on his background in alternative energy. Can you name what he supports? Are you just attacking because he hasn't issued a statement for you to support?
Here we go again. Strickland's supporters can't talk substance and policy, so they revert to the same, tired fallacy about taxes. Jeez, can't you guys come up with anything more original and effective than that?
Tony clearly isn't feeding the locals any talking points so all they can do is attack others. Yawn.
Hannah Beth-Jackson hasn't even been campaigning in Ventura County, has she? I haven't gotten any flyers or mailers from her and I live in Camarillo.
She seems like she's stuck in neutral. She really doesn't have anything positive to offer Ventura County residents, otherwise she'd be at least trying to get our support, wouldn't you think?
Live in north county; haven't received a thing from Tony. I have gotten five mailers from Jackson. I think she wants my vote.
Flyers, mailers, and signs don't mean much when you're too ashamed to write Republican on them. If people don't see the candidates party on the materials they know it's Republican douchebag. Poor pathetic Republican scum. LOL!
I think old 'Birkenstock' up there pretty much summed up Strickland's feelings about the environment. They all think alike over at the Republican Central Committee.
Greenwave us just another LLC set up by a group of greedy developers who hope to lay their claim to offshore sites in the hopes that once they have made their minimal investment in feasibilty studies, they can then sell the claim for big bucks. Not exactly a goldrush deal, but not far from it. And certainly not "GREEN" Stickland has big b--ls sending a letter asking for bipartisan support in Camarillo, based on the prison hospital project. He must think all of us registered Dems are completely ignorant. Or, he simply just doesn't care. Once a developer always a developer.
Greenwave us just another LLC set up by a group of greedy developers who hope to lay their claim to offshore sites in the hopes that once they have made their minimal investment in feasibilty studies, they can then sell the claim for big bucks. Not exactly a goldrush deal, but not far from it. And certainly not "GREEN" Stickland has big b--ls sending a letter asking for bipartisan support in Camarillo, based on the prison hospital project. He must think all of us registered Dems are completely ignorant. Or, he simply just doesn't care. Once a developer always a developer.