[courtesy of California Progress Report]

A Poseidon Adventure We Don't Need

By Gary A. Patton
Executive Director
Planning and Conservation League

Kermit the Frog famously lamented, "it's not easy being green." Poseidon Resources, a company proposing to build an environmentally-destructive ocean water desalination facility on the California coast, would love to have his problem.

Next week in San Diego, Poseidon Resources will try to explain to the California Coastal Commission why they should be granted a permit to build and operate a desalination facility in Carlsbad after the Commission's own staff report recommends denying their request.

by Erik Love [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

The Courage Campaign has launched a petition drive against the Republican power grab otherwise known as the "Presidential Election Reform Act."  Click here to fight back against this transparent attempt to steal electoral votes in a move more brazen than anything Katherine Harris even dreamed of back in 2000.
As you may already have heard, a team of GOP lawyers have filed an initiative with the state attorney general for the June 2008 ballot that would reduce California's voice in electing the president of the United States by moving California from a winner take all electoral system to one that allots electoral votes proportionally by congressional district.

They call it The Presidential Election Reform Act. We call it a rightwing power grab because the net result would be that the Republican candidate could win as many as 20 of California's 55 electoral votes or the equivalent of Ohio.

Help stop this right wing power grab by signing this pledge to oppose it today.

by atdleft [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

by atdleft [courtesy of Calitics: Soapblox California - Front Page]

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Mayor Newsom's love-hate relationship with the blogging community veared toward love today, as Newsom and bloggers exchanged a few kind words at the blogger riser on the convention floor.