{"id":278734,"date":"2010-02-04T17:45:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/a-ballot-initiative-by-any-other-name\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T17:45:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:45:38","slug":"anti-jobs-california-jobs-initiative-crew-threatens-suit-over-name-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/278734","title":{"rendered":"Anti-jobs &#8216;California Jobs Initiative&#8217; crew threatens suit over name change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Adam Browning <\/p>\n<p>This is funny.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A group in California is working on a ballot initiative to suspend implementation of AB 32, the state&#8217;s global warming law, until California&#8217;s unemployment drops below 5.5% for four consecutive quarters. No big fans of green jobs, one presumes. Their proposed title? The &#8220;California Jobs Initiative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Luntzian nomenclature reminds me of Bush&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.fed.us\/projects\/hfi\/\">Healthy Forests Initiative<\/a>,&#8221; which did have its own perverse logic, in that a clearcut forest and denuded hillsides are significantly less at risk for major fires.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In any event, California Attorney General Jerry Brown gets final say on ballot initiative naming, and he prefers: &ldquo;Suspends air pollution control laws requiring major polluters to<br \/>report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Now the sponsoring group is <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/greenspace\/2010\/02\/jerry-brown-global-warming-ab-32.html\">reportedly threatening to sue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Which reminds me of Fox News&#8217; lawsuit against Al Franken for using &#8220;Fair and Balanced&#8221; in his book title&#8212;an effort entirely welcomed by Franken, as the controversy put his book onto bestseller lists and kept it there for a long time.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Fox had the last laugh, though. After the judge threw out their case, they dropped their lawsuit, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2003\/08\/12\/entertainment\/main567800.shtml\">saying<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s time to return Al Franken to the obscurity that he&#8217;s normally accustomed to,&#8221; Fox News spokeswoman Irena Steffen said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I wonder what Senator Franken has to say about the ballot initiative?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-04-a-chat-with-bernie-sanders-on-his-new-10-million-solar-roofs-bil\/\">A chat with Sen. Bernie Sanders on his new 10 million solar roofs bill<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/in-which-it-feels-like-everything-has-come-to-a-full-stop\/\">The Climate Post: In which it feels like everything has come to a full stop<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-01-the-jobs-are-in-the-trees\/\">The jobs are in the trees<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=99a51533c9ae0106e11fe18b7c768e0e&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=99a51533c9ae0106e11fe18b7c768e0e&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2223\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Adam Browning This is funny. A group in California is working on a ballot initiative to suspend implementation of AB 32, the state&#8217;s global warming law, until California&#8217;s unemployment drops below 5.5% for four consecutive quarters. No big fans of green jobs, one presumes. Their proposed title? The &#8220;California Jobs Initiative.&#8221; The Luntzian nomenclature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}