Sierra Club California

✔ Pedro Nava

"Sierra Club California’s volunteer leaders have endorsed Assemblymember Pedro Nava for state Attorney General, which is probably the second-most important position in the state government, next to Governor. As the top lawyer for the state, the AG enforces our environmental laws, from the Environmental Quality Act to the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Coastal Act. As an Assemblymember, Nava has introduced important environmental legislation including bills banning the use of lead ammunition in Condor Country, establishing a comprehensive oil spill prevention program, and strengthening watershed protection. Additionally, he has been a staunch opponent of offshore oil drilling in California Coastal Sanctuary waters. Prior to his service in the Assembly, Nava served on the California Coastal Commission for eight years where he had the highest coastal resource protection voting record. Sierra Club California sent questionnaires to all nine viable candidates in this race. None of the three Republicans returned the questionnaires. All six Democratic candidates did participate, and were interviewed by our team. The last two Attorneys General, Bill Lockyer and Jerry Brown, have set a high standard of standing up for California’s air, water and wild places. We are confident that Pedro Nava will continue and enhance that standard. "

Attorney General (D) in California Primary on May 24, 2010 at 1:28AM.

✘ No

" Proposition 16 would amend the California Constitution to require local governments to obtain 2/3 super-majority voter approval for extending a local public utility's service territory or before issuing public financing for a Community Choice energy program. This amendment to the state constitution is being bankrolled by one power company, Pacific Gas and Electric, also known as PG&E. PG&E plans to spend $30 million dollars on passing Proposition 16. It seeks to write PG&E’s monopoly into the law, protecting it from competition. PG&E currently gets only about 14% of its electricity from renewable energy and will fail to reach the state mandated minimum of 20% by the end of 2010. Instead, PG&E is investing mostly in dirty fossil-fuel plants and damming wild rivers in British Columbia for hydropower to export to California. "

Proposition 16: Public Electricity in California Primary on May 24, 2010 at 1:30AM.

✔ Yes

"Cleaning up our political system is crucial to cleaning up our air and water and preserving our coast, parks, forests and deserts. Presently, wealthy developers, oil companies, utilities and other special interests hold too much influence over our elected officials, so Californians do not get the environmental policies that we want. YES The Fair Elections Act on the June 2010 ballot would create a pilot project to make voluntary public financing available to Secretary of State candidates in 2014 and 2018. Public financing is a way to get politicians out of the fundraising game and back to solving California’s problems. Replacing special-interest money with clean money would ensure elected officials are accountable to voters, not donors, and open up the political process so the best candidates, not just the wealthiest candidates, can pursue elected office."

Proposition 15: CALIFORNIA FAIR ELECTIONS ACT in California Primary on May 24, 2010 at 1:29AM.