Voters refuse marijuana and oil corporations in California political election

CA voters have a history of setting national trends in their elections. The CA midterm elections were viewed closely for the outcome of 2 propositions in unique: Proposition 23, to overturn California’s aggressive greenhouse gas law; and Proposition 19, to legalize marijuana.

California’s bold global warming law upheld

CA is probably the most popular state in the United States of America which makes its elections quite popular. The voters and corporations in CA usually set trends throughout the country. This is all because in the whole world, California has the eighth largest economy. In the last 40 years, the state has had the best air quality legislation. In 2006, there was a greenhouse gas legislation that passed. This left California's economy entirely changed. Prop 23 claims that the change does not have to be made with the recession, while oil businesses put millions into stopping that from happening. California voters decided not to go against the federal govt with Prop 19 to legalize weed as it failed.

Oil corporations rejected with Proposition 23 defeat

The ground breaking climate change law in CA is something two Texas oil businesses wanted to stop. Valero and Tesoro both wanted Proposition 23 to pass. AB32 is the law that demands greenhouse gas emissions in the state to go down to 1990. By 2020, this goal has to be met. The whole public, along with the govt and businesses, have to be concerned about this legislation. A campaign funded by oil companies tried to convince voters that California, with a current unemployment rate of 12 percent, couldn’t afford to address global warming until joblessness hit 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters. Californian voters seemed to prefer the state going green. At least more than 60 percent of voters voted this way. The oil companies weren't just beat just a little bit. They were beat severely.

Feds kill the buzz on Proposition 19

Many who supported proposition 19 tried to make the economic recession an excuse for passing it. That had been how they were trying to get it passed. If weed were legal, a huge tax revenue would come in. This would help the California budget a ton. Younger voters obviously didn't show up on political election day since proposition 19 showed a ton of younger support. Those who did vote did not think it had been a good idea though. Prop 19 had been likely stopped because of the federal government probably the most. It said that if marijuana were legalized, California would be hit hard.

Citations

Reuters

reuters.com/article/idUS184481293120101103

Los Angeles Times

latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pot-20101103-1,,5135592.story

Wall Street Journal

online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20101103-710843.html