Schwarzenegger Embraces Environment Ideas

[Socialist Christian]

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20031121_1201.html

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Activists trying to slow suburban sprawl in California see reason for hope in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger even if the guy does drive a Hummer and received $2.5 million in campaign contributions from real estate interests.
The Republican has been taking advice from a Los Angeles environmental group and has embraced many ideas of the "smart growth" movement, which favors mass transit, rebuilding cities and slowing development of farmland.

His Web site has pledged wholesale restoration of declining urban areas, criticized "fiscally unsustainable sprawl" and promised new incentives to clean up blighted or contaminated industrial sites and build homes on them.

The action hero-turned-governor has also named the chief of the group Environment Now, Terry Tamminen, to run California's Environmental Protection Agency. And he appointed a prominent Democratic critic of "dumb growth," Sunne Wright McPeak, as his secretary of business, housing and transportation

[ramapo]

1. This might be different

RFK Jr says Arnold is a true environmentalist. Wouldn't it be something if he proves to the Republicans the old adage: Watch out what you wish for, you might get it.