Lets be honest about Jerry Brown...
Jerry Brown is no real progressive, he's been a big supporter of fracking in California...
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0505-mckibben-california-fracking-20150502-story.html
That means Brown's legacy is double-edged: visionary on one side but status quo on the other.
And even worse, fracking in a time of drought is a remarkable obscenity. The process uses a tremendous amount of water. Trucks line up on rural roads in Kern County, not to deliver water to those communities where wells have run dry but to deliver it to drillers who inject it underground. What they bring back up is polluted wastewater.
And it's even worse, Jerry Brown has done nothing to protect plants and water used in California from being contaminated with fracking wastewater (and in fact, regulators basically allowed polluters to pollute California water.)
California Regulators Allowed Oil Industry To Drill Hundreds Of Wastewater Injection Wells Into Aquifers With Drinkable Water
http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/03/california-regulators-allowed-hundreds-oil-industry-wastewater-injection-wells-drilled-aquifers-drinkable-water
Original post: The fallout from the ongoing review of California’s deeply flawed Underground Injection Control program continues as new documents reveal that state regulators are investigating more than 500 injection wells for potentially dumping oil industry wastewater into aquifers protected under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act as well as state law.
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preferring instead to spend our recent surpluses on debt service, rainy-day funds, etc. 
That's exactly what I wrote, I want to poison everybody's water.
That must have been what I wrote for you to reply like that.
When there's no more petrochemicals to be extracted? Or when OPEC makes it no longer profitable to continue (like right now)?
That's what the industry has pushed for and received permission to do.
Because apparently we are no longer dependent on foreign oil...? Right?
Actually we are fracking just so the frackers can sell on the open World market (when prices per barrel are high) and make profits, not to quench domestic demand.
Otherwise it would be idiotic to allow export of domestic oil products. And the Obama administration are not idiots.
either progressive or not. If you choose to support fracking for oil profits over the drinking water of the People, THEN YOU ARE NOT PROGRESSIVE. As far "fixing everything at once." Fracking was a fix. Starting fracking is an ok fix but stopping isn't.
Some people think if they are a little progressive on one issue, bingo-bango they are progressive.
If fracking wasn't so bad, why has Hillary Clinton-Sachs changed her tune? Why doesn't she simply explain that fracking aint so bad if she really believed it?
One day we will be begging for clean drinking water. But the pro-frackers are ok because that will only effect our children. 
I don't feel like my family's health and welfare is a frigging "issue" to be trifled or used as a bargaining tool/pawn. Those that talk about expediency and 'short term' have no clue what it's like for the peons that are living it.
Life isn't about 1 issue, no. BUT being progressive doesn't mean you relegate people's lives to a back burner. It means you multi-task and take on the big issues that affect others. You don't fix everything at once, no. But you damned well make the attempt instead of playing triage on those it most affects and shrug it off with an - Oh well. We'll get to it later. Hope ya'll make it on your own without too many birth defects, breathing problems, cancers, etc. And don't forget to buy bottled water! It's good for the economy! Don't forget to donate to the party and vote Democratic!
Yes, Brown done some good stuff. But he fails miserably on fracking and I won't make excuses for him. He can and should do better. The race for progress isn't over when you have some done. And if he isn't done, why isn't he helping with one of the biggest issues facing the Central Valley? Do you know that 95% of California's fracking is done in 1, count 'em ONE, county?
This is not a Sanders only issue for me, either. Though it is ONE of the reasons I support him. The following is from my Journal, without the Sanders stuff so that maybe, MAYBE! - some of you people will read it ... minus the candidate glasses. This isn't academic speculation. It's real life. It's our families. Not a matter of prioritization of issues. Fracking hits our air. Our water. Our food. Big oil is too powerful to take on at the local level. It takes a big gun, like the governor, to make any headway. And he doesn't take it on in a real, meaningful way.
http://earthjustice.org/blog/2015-december/one-california-countys-fracked-idea
@ 2 miles from home, and there is so many more all over the county.
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It’s Kern County, California with around 42,000 active wells . California is the third largest oil producing state, behind Texas and North Dakota. The epicenter of the state’s oil boom is Kern County, which lies about 100 miles north of Los Angeles in the rural Central Valley. Kern is home to approximately 75 percent of California's oil drilling and 95 percent of the state’s fracking, and regulators hope to keep the black gold flowing.
Last month, the county board of supervisors approved a new ordinance that would purportedly allow oil and gas companies to fast track drilling permits for tens of thousands of new wells in the next two decades with no environmental review and no public notice or participation. On Thursday, Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against Kern County on behalf of the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), in coordination with the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment and the Center for Biological Diversity. The Earthjustice suit challenges the county’s claim that a single environmental review conducted before the ordinance was passed is sufficient to authorize up to 3,647 new oil and gas wells a year for the next 20 years or longer, for a total of 72,000 new wells.
NRDC found that 14 percent of Californians—5.4 million people—live within one mile of an oil or gas well. Of that group, 69 percent are people of color, most Hispanic or Latino. Low-income communities of color typically face disproportionate financial and health burdens from heavy industry, including oil and gas production. The new wells authorized by the Kern County plan would be built in an area that already has some of the nation’s worst air quality. According to the American Lung Association, Bakersfield, the largest city in Kern County, is the second worst city in the country for air pollution, both short-term and year-round.
Air pollution from oil and gas wells can exacerbate illnesses like asthma and high blood pressure, and fracking, specifically, has been linked to water pollution, which can occur when massive amounts of fracking wastewater laced with chemicals are injected deep underground. Just one barrel of fracked oil produces 10 barrels of contaminated waste water that must be disposed of.
looks like the chihuahua just barked 
p.s. I got the most humongous traffic ticket in my life a few years ago in AZ while parked in a parking lot. The works. I'd have to sell my car to pay it.
I'd call that throwing stones from a glass house. 
let that be your guide going forward
Without the Orwellian spin, what have you got here?
Actually most of who have posted here see your OP for the bullshit it is.
"Honest" my ass.
MARCH 2016
Governor Brown and California Democratic legislators raised the state’s minimum wage to $15 by 2022 with an agreement that also protects the budget and small businesses – becoming the first state to reach this milestone. No Republican legislators voted for the law.
OCTOBER 2015
Governor Brown signed one of the nation’s strongest equal pay laws with bipartisan support to reduce the wage gap for women. California women earn 84 cents for every $1 a man earns for the same work.
OCTOBER 2015
California made clean energy history with the signing of Senate Bill 350, which boosts renewable energy sources like wind and solar to 50% and doubles the energy efficiency of buildings by 2030.
OCTOBER 2015
California Democrats passed SB 703, which prohibits discrimination against transgender people by companies doing business with the state, and SB 713, which aids transgender children in the foster care system to prevent homelessness, victimization, depression, and suicide.
OCTOBER 2015
Governor Jerry Brown responded to a devastating oil spill on the Santa Barbara coast by signing bills to prevent oil spills and strengthen the state’s response to future spills.
OCTOBER 2015
The California Motor Voter Act makes us a national leader on increasing voter participation by automatically registering California citizens to vote when they apply for, renew, or change their address on a driver’s license.
SEPTEMBER 2015
California Democrats passed SB 588 to combat wage theft and ensure hardworking Californians are paid overtime and other earned wages. Wage theft by employers disproportionally affects women and people of color.
MAY 2015
California expanded Medi-Cal to cover all children regardless of their immigration status. The Health for All Kids Act will cover an estimated 170,000 children from families with low incomes.
MAY 2015
Gov. Brown signed the Climate Change Pact together with the leaders of other states and countries to reduce greenhouse gases and promote clean energy. Also known as the "Under 2 MOU," the goal is to keep global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius. As of December 2015 the pact includes 123 jurisdictions representing more than 720 million people and $19.9 trillion in combined GDP. “We are building a global force of cities, states – and even countries – to reduce carbon pollution and protect the wellbeing of people everywhere,” said Gov. Brown.
MAY 2015
California Democrats approved a 2015-16 state budget that increased per-pupil K-12 spending by $3,000, froze tuition costs at the UC and CSU systems through 2017, put billions of dollars into rainy day reserves, and expanded health insurance through Medi-Cal for children from low-income families, regardless of their immigration status.
NOVEMBER 2014
Californians approved Propositions 1 and 2 to safeguard California's water supply and to save money to protect schools and public safety services from budget cuts in future recessions.
NOVEMBER 2014
California Democrats added a seat to our 38-member Congressional delegation through our push into previously Republican-held areas. We delivered millions of doorhangers, slate cards, and mailers in targeted state and federal campaigns.
NOVEMBER 2014
California voters reelected Gov. Jerry Brown and again captured every constitutional statewide office and strong Democratic majorities in the California Legislature. The Los Angeles Times said California Democrats “had much to celebrate. They swept all eight statewide offices Gov. Jerry Brown trounced his Republican challenger.”
APRIL 2014
Nearly 3 million uninsured Californians obtained healthcare in the first year of implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
OCTOBER 2013
California Democrats overcame years of Republican stonewalling and approved Assembly Bill 60 to issue state driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants and improve safety on our roads.
SEPTEMBER 2013
We gave more than 1 million working Californians a raise by raising the minimum wage from $8 to $10 by 2016.
AUGUST 2013
Governor Brown signed the School Success and Opportunity Act, ensuring transgender youth have the opportunity to fully participate and succeed in schools across the state.
SEPTEMBER 2012
We implemented online voter registration, making it easier for Californians to register to vote.
JULY 2013
We passed the Middle Class Scholarship, which slashed student fees at UC and CSU by up to 40% for families making under $100,000.
NOVEMBER 2012
We led the charge to defeat the deceptive Proposition 32, which would have handed more power to corporate special interests.
NOVEMBER 2012
California voters sent nine targeted Republican Congressional incumbents and challengers packing.
NOVEMBER 2012
California Democrats championed Proposition 30 to restore funding to California K-12 schools and community colleges and help end years of teacher layoffs and budget cuts.
JULY 2012
California Democrats passed the Homeowner Bill of Rights to help stop fraudulent foreclosures and predatory lending practices and repair the damage of the foreclosure crisis.
NOVEMBER 2011
It Gets Bluer effort increased Democratic Latino voter turnout in Fresno, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties and led to pickup of Legislative and Congressional seats in 2012.
OCTOBER 2011
Gov. Brown signed the California DREAM Act to open the door for all students to attend college, regardless of their immigration status. Most Republicans opposed the bill.
OCTOBER 2011
Operation Game Changer improved turnout in Los Angeles by converting 50,000 Democrats to become permanent vote-by-mail voters.
NOVEMBER 2010
Californians approved the majority vote state budget with Proposition 25. Californians "made it a lot easier Tuesday for legislators to pass a budget," said the San Francisco Chronicle. Without Republican blocking tactics, Democrats have delivered balanced, on-time budgets since 2011.
NOVEMBER 2010
Californians elected Jerry Brown as governor despite his being outspent 6:1. The San Francisco Chronicle said Brown defied “a tsunami of spending by his billionaire opponent.” Sen. Barbara Boxer defeated a former corporate CEO who had offshored California jobs, and Democrats swept every constitutional statewide office.
MARCH 2010
President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act to extend health insurance to an estimated 41 million uninsured Americans, despite unrelenting Republican opposition. The landmark law has since survived repeated Republican assaults and two legal challenges in the Supreme Court.
http://www.cadem.org/take-action/accomplishments
And BTW, I call em chihuahuas because they are a small but loud group. Most here on DU are Bernie supporters 
fruits and nuts are grown. One should be following what has been going on in California.
This is a huge endorsement and will likely give Hillary a major bump. June 7th is going to be a great day for team Clinton and a disaster for Sanders.
