Strickland, T rep

Tony Strickland (b. February 17, 1970, in Fort Ord, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California" title="California" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none; font-family: "Libre Franklin", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">CA</a>) was a 2014 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none; font-family: "Libre Franklin", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Republican</a> candidate who sought election to the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/U.S.House_elections,2014" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House elections, 2014" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none; font-family: "Libre Franklin", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">U.S. House</a> to represent <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California%27s_25th_Congressional_District_elections,2014" title="California's 25th Congressional District elections, 2014" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none; font-family: "Libre Franklin", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">the 25th Congressional District</a> of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California" title="California" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none; font-family: "Libre Franklin", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">California</a>.<span id="cite_ref-year_1-0" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Libre Franklin", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tony_Strickland#cite_note-year-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a> Tony Strickland lost the general election on November 4, 2014. He is also a former <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none; font-family: "Libre Franklin", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Republican</a> member of the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California_State_Senate" title="California State Senate" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none; font-family: "Libre Franklin", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">California State Senate</a>, representing District 19 from 2008 to 2012.In 2012, Strickland ran for <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/U.S.House" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. House</a> representing <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California%27s_26th_Congressional_District_elections,2012" title="California's 26th Congressional District elections, 2012" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none;">the 26th Congressional District</a> of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California" title="California" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none;">California</a>, losing to Democrat <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Julia_Brownley" title="Julia Brownley" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none;">Julia Brownley</a> in the general election.<span id="cite_ref-cnnr_2-0" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tony_Strickland#cite_note-cnnr-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a> He initially planned to run again in 2014 but dropped out of the race once <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Jeff_Gorell" title="Jeff Gorell" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none;">Jeff Gorell</a> announced his candidacy. He then immediately endorsed Gorell.<span id="cite_ref-rematch14_3-0" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tony_Strickland#cite_note-rematch14-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a><span id="cite_ref-gorell_4-0" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tony_Strickland#cite_note-gorell-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a>Prior to joining the state senate, Strickland served in the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California_State_Assembly" title="California State Assembly" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none;">California State Assembly</a> (District 37) from 1998 to 2004. He ran for the statewide position of California State Controller in 2006.=<h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Redistricting</h4><dl style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><dl style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Redistricting_in_California" title="Redistricting in California" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Redistricting in California</a> and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_40,State_Senate_Redistricting_Plan_Referendum(2012)" title="California Proposition 40, State Senate Redistricting Plan Referendum (2012)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">California Proposition 40, State Senate Redistricting Plan Referendum (2012)</a></dd></dl></dd></dl>In August 2011, the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California_Citizens_Redistricting_Commission" title="California Citizens Redistricting Commission" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">California Citizens Redistricting Commission</a> completed the new Congressional and state legislative maps for the 2012-2020 elections. A <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_40,State_Senate_Redistricting_Plan_Referendum(2012)" title="California Proposition 40, State Senate Redistricting Plan Referendum (2012)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">referendum</a> began in August 2011 to repeal the Senate map. Supporters have until November 13, 2011 to collect the 504,760 signatures that are required to qualify the measure for the ballot. Among the drive supporters are former <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Governor_of_California" title="Governor of California" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Governor</a> Pete Wilson and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/State_Senate_Minority_Leader" title="State Senate Minority Leader" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">State Senate Minority Leader</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Bob_Dutton" class="mw-redirect" title="Bob Dutton" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Bob Dutton</a>.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Joel_Anderson(California)#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">[2]</a> Four other GOP senators immediately contributed more than $5,000 to the referendum group FAIR:<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Joel_Anderson_(California)#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">[3]</a><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.6em 1.6em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tony_Strickland" title="Tony Strickland" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Tony Strickland</a>: $25,000</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mimi_Walters" title="Mimi Walters" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Mimi Walters</a>: $25,000</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="mw-selflink selflink" style="text-decoration: inherit; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Joel Anderson</a>: $10,000</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Doug_La_Malfa" class="mw-redirect" title="Doug La Malfa" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Doug La Malfa</a>: $5,000</li></ul><div>=</div>=California House Races: Logue and Knight Of California's three known ALEC members, two ran for higher office in this election: state Rep. Dan Logue (R-3) for U.S. House district three against incumbent Rep. John Garamendi (D). Garamendi, who outspent Logue, won his race with 52% of the vote. ALEC member state Sen. Steve Knight (R-21) ran for U.S. House district 25 against fellow Republican former state Sen. Tony Strickland. Knight won the election. - See more at: http://www.prwatch.org/node/12654#sthash.DkN3oZ13.dpuf==Georgia-Pacific, incidentally, is registered with the California

Secretary of State’s office as a limited liability company (LLC). This

means none of its political activity will be hampered by <a href="http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/pdf/">Prop. 32’s proposed restrictions</a> [6] should

the measure pass, as it only “[p]rohibits unions and corporations from

contributing directly or indirectly to candidates and

candidate-controlled committees.” An LLC is not considered a corporation

nor, certainly, a union.The Kochs’ most conspicuous foray into

California politics—prior to their Prop. 32 support –came in 2010, when

the Koch Industries subsidiary Flint Hills Resources donated $1 million

to <a href="http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/koch-industries-war-california">support Proposition 23</a> [7].

Had voters ratified it, Prop. 23 would have overturned California’s

landmark climate change prevention statute, AB 32. Flint Hills didn’t

chip in out of climate change denial. The company has a substantial

investment in Canadian tar sands oil, whose extraction and consumption

creates a Sasquatch-sized carbon footprint. Robust clean emissions

standards, Koch Industries complained on its website, “would cripple

refiners that rely on heavy crude feedstocks.”In addition to

their attempts to cripple the state’s environmental laws, the Kochs seem

to have a keen interest in opening up California’s waters to new

offshore drilling. The Koch-backed American Future Fund, which supplied

the recent $4 million lump-sum to Prop. 32, is a vociferous <a href="http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/columnists/sherman/article_57f884dc-a4a1-5f5b-98df-a4493b9ff497.html">“drill, baby, drill” backer</a> [8]. In 2008, the group went after Colorado Congressman <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/07/24/174097/udall-cuba-drilling/">Mark Udall </a> [9]in

a series of ads for supposedly “blocking American energy” by refusing

to support opening up protected waters for oil exploration. The pressure

appeared to get to Udall, as he ultimately switched his position.In August of 2008, the Koch-backed FreedomWorks organization also helped fund such <a href="http://exiledonline.com/teagagged-tea-party-protest-silenced-over-organizers-links-to-2008-drill-here-drill-now-astroturf-campaign/">pro-drilling, proto-Tea Party outfits</a> [10] as

the Sam Adams Alliance and DontGo Movement. The combined Astroturf

efforts of these groups helped convince the U.S. House and Senate to

lift longstanding federal restrictions on new offshore oil and gas

drilling.Had the British Petroleum spill in the Gulf of Mexico not occurred in 2010, forcing Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (a <a href="http://cal-access.ss.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1007775&view=expenditures&session=2005">major recipient</a> [11] of

Georgia-Pacific campaign contributions) to rescind his efforts to open

up California waters to new oil exploration, there’s a good chance the

Koch’s national efforts would have been successful here too.Now,

with lessons of the BP spill two years in hindsight, the idea of

offshore drilling in California has resurfaced. Koch Industries recently

donated $5,000 to the Congressional campaign of Santa Barbara

Republican <a href="http://m.vcstar.com/news/2012/may/24/fundraising-hits-17-million-in-county-race/">Tony Strickland</a> [12]—who, in various campaigns over the years, has <a href="http://votesmart.org/candidate/16765/tony-strickland">routinely advocated</a> [13] opening up waters off the coast of California to <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/26/local/la-me-treas-controller-20100526">drilling</a> [14].Though

they don’t yet appear to have their feet in the door financially,

there’s no reason to suspect that, with their army of lobbyists at the

ready and history of campaign contributions in the state, the Kochs

couldn’t maneuver to profit off of California’s offshore oil.