If you live in the 50th Congressional District in San Diego County, or the 35th State Senate District in Orange County – today is your day to vote. Special elections are taking place today in both of these districts! Remember that the FlashReport recommends any Republican BUT Bilbray in CD 50, and a vote for Diane Harkey in SD 35. There is also a race underway for Mayor in the city of Long Beach — look for a special FR look at how that race goes in tomorrow issue, or maybe Thursday.
The Governor today in unveiling a greenhouse-gas emission reduction plan in, of course, San Francisco. The FlashReport will spend much more time focusing on this proposal, but just on the face of it, given that the cornerstone of the plan involves regulation of business that will be quite costly, you have to ask yourself how one state out of 50 can engage in such an aggressive program unilaterally, and not expect it to have a negative effect on our state’s economic climate? I admit that this is not an area of policy expertise for me, but it seems like with extremely tough economic challenges taking place in Sacramento, including structural deficits and more, that we should be doing everything we can to encourage economic development in the Golden State. From a political perspective, this kind of a radical environmental agenda isn’t going to help the Governor with his ‘contrast’ campaign against leftists Angelides and Westly. You cannot beat them by embracing their agenda. I’ll be reaching out to conservative minds who focus on environmental policy and bring you their perspective in the coming weeks.
