EDITORIAL BROWN OUT.WHEN he was running for office last year, California Attorney General The California Attorney General is the State Attorney General of the government of the state of California in the USA. The officer's duty is to ensure that "the laws of the state are uniformly and adequately enforced" (California Constitution, Article V, Section 13. Jerry Brown For the whistleblower, see . Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. (born April 7, 1938), is the Attorney General for the state of California. Brown has had a lengthy political career spanning terms on the Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees (1969-1971), as California was cool to predecessor Bill Lockyer's plan to sue car manufacturers over global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. . After all, if the automakers are responsible for greenhouse gases, then what about the state, which registers, taxes and builds roads for the cars? But now Brown has -- pardon the pun -- warmed up to the idea. He plans to pursue the case, although reportedly as a means to try to pressure automakers to drop their legal challenge of the state's tough new restrictions on greenhouse gases. But a bad idea is a bad idea, even when applied to a nominally worthy end. A meritless lawsuit won't intimidate automakers, but it will cost taxpayers. Candidate Brown was right to be skeptical of Lockyer's goofy Goofy bumbling, awkward dog; originally named Dippy Dawg. [Comics: “Mickey Mouse” in Horn, 492] See : Awkwardness idea, which is why Attorney General Brown should drop it now. |
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