Costa, Ted

<p><a rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to 'REPORT: The Politician Behind The Campaign To Repeal California’s Clean Energy Law'" href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/07/28/dan-logue-ab32/">REPORT: The Politician Behind The Campaign To Repeal California’s Clean Energy Law</a>

<a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/07/28/dan-logue-ab32/">http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/07/28/dan-logue-ab32/</a>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Originally, the initiative to repeal AB 32 was pushed by Ted Costa</span>, a veteran <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa">right-wing activist</a> behind many conservative initiatives and head of the group <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">People’s Advocate</span>. In a separate interview, Costa told the Wonk Room that he met privately with Logue, who was “crying that he had a bill to repeal AB 32.” Logue’s bill, <a href="http://www.flashreport.org/blog0a.php?postID=2010011118125493&post_offsetP=0&authID=2008012914170167">AB 118</a>, died in committee, but Costa said he and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rep. <font color="#ff0000">Tom McClintock </font>(R-CA) advised Logue to use an initiative to instead rescind California’s clean energy law using provisions concerning the unemployment rate.</span>

To draft the initiative, Costa said he initially worked with California GOP and<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/07/27/prop23-tobacco/">tobacco</a> lawyer <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/07/27/prop23-tobacco/">Tom Hiltachk</a> to write the language. But after submitting Costa’s <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/initiatives/pdfs/i902_initiative_09-0104.pdf">initiative</a>, Hiltachk resubmitted the Prop 23 “<a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ccrov/pdf/2010/february/10070km.pdf">California Jobs Initiative</a>” using slightly altered provisions “to get better financial backing.”</span> According to Costa, Hiltachk lied to him, secretly pushing him out so that the money raised for the proposition could be funneled back to Hiltachk and his friends in the “<a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/07/27/prop23-tobacco/">million-dollar consultant</a>” world. Before long, Costa said he <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">received a call from a “high powered lobbyist” </span>to tell him he was out of the process.

Costa told the Wonk Room that he became disgusted when he kept hearing Logue and others involved gleefully discussing the potential of raising<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> $50 million from oil companies and the Chamber of Commerce</span>. Logue believes Costa has <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“<a href="http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2010/03/leader-of-anti-.html">sour grapes</a>” because he did not win the contract to gather signatures</span>. Costa, however, says Logue is “full of shit” and is afflicted with “politician’s disease” for pushing an initiative just to get rich.

==</p><p>Posted on Mon, Dec. 20, 2010</p><h2>Commentary: A GOP power grab is resurrected for 2012</h2><h3>Dan Morain | The Sacramento Bee</h3><p class="modtime">last updated: December 27, 2010 02:47:36 PM</p><div id="story_body"><p>As President Barack Obama and his advisers prepare for the 2012 campaign, they assume he already has won California.</p><p>Given the Democrats' domination here, Obama is all but assured of winning the popular vote as he did in 2008 and, by extension, the richest-in-the-nation trove of electoral votes. But that would be under the current winner-take-all rules.</p><p><b>Ted Costa</b> has a different idea. Costa is the Sacramento political provocateur who controls the People's Advocate operation and mailing list built by his mentor, Paul Gann, the other half of the Howard Jarvis-Gann initiative team that brought us Proposition 13.</p><p>With no fanfare, Costa last week submitted to the attorney general's office an initiative he calls the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Electoral College Reform Act.</span>" On its face, the populist proposal would play to voters' sense of fairness and desire for competition among candidates.</p><p>In reality, this initiative would be a Republican power grab with national implications.</p><p>The change contemplated by Costa and other consultants could push a Republican to victory in a close presidential race.</p><p>"It is the kind of thing that puts the metal to the grindstone and sparks fly," Costa told me.</p><p>Under the proposal, California's 55 electoral votes no longer would go to whoever wins the popular vote. Rather, they'd be apportioned based on the candidate who wins in particular congressional districts.</p><p> </p><p>There's the rub.</p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The GOP may be endangered in California. But Republicans hold 20 of the state's 53 congressional seats. If Costa's measure were to become law, any Republican presidential nominee who could breathe and speak at the same time would win 20 electoral votes, the equivalent of winning Ohio.</span></p><p>To be sure, anyone with the $200 filing fee and an idea, no matter how bad, can ask the attorney general for an initial review. Most measures die at this first stage, mercifully sparing voters from having to decipher the trickery imbedded in their legalese.</p><p>Costa, who operates from a musty office in an aging strip mall on Arden Way, has plenty of experience in the big business of direct democracy, and an uneven record of success. Slicker operators have snatched ideas from him in the past.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> In this instance, Costa has seized on someone else's idea.</span></p><p>In 2007, Sacramento attorney T<b>homas Hiltachk,</b> whose firm represents the California Republican Party, wrote a virtually identical initiative and joined GOP strategist Marty Wilson, who managed Carly Fiorina's U.S. Senate run this year, in an effort to place it on the June 2008 ballot.</p><p>It didn't work out well. Unable to raise much money and facing fierce opposition from Democrats – and some Republicans who disliked the gimmicky nature of it all – Wilson dropped it.</p><p>In stepped a Republican consultant<b><span style="color: rgb(237, 28, 36);"> Dave Gilliard. Gilliard's clients include Rep. Darrell Issa</span></b>, the Vista Republican said to be the wealthiest member of Congress.</p><p><b>Issa has dug deep in the past, spending $10 million on a failed run for the U.S. Senate in 1998, and $1.6 million on the 2003 recall and his aborted run to replace Gov. Gray Davis.</b></p><p>Gilliard said he has not broached the Electoral College initiative idea with Issa, who is busy figuring out who and what to investigate as incoming chairman of the House Oversight Committee. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But in 2007, Issa kicked in $91,000 to help qualify the measure. Even though Gilliard raised $1.3 million, the petition drive fell short.</span></p><p>Like Wilson, Gilliard laments what might have been. Both men are considering rekindling the measure. There's nothing to stop them from big-footing Costa and moving ahead with Electoral College "reform" for the June 2012 ballot.</p><p>"I'm involved in some discussions about reviving it," Gilliard told me. "<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The key is getting donors excited that California can be relevant."</span></p><p>Democrats have noticed the chatter that Costa's measure is generating. San Francisco strategist Chris Lehane, a former Clinton White House aide, led the effort to derail the 2007 version. Calling it the "Freddy Krueger" of initiatives, Lehane is preparing a new battle against this Democratic nightmare.</p></div>

<h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading"><font size="4">Ted Costa</font></h1>

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<p><b>Edward J. "Ted" Costa</b> , who describes himself as "a populist <a title="Conservative" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative">conservative</a>"<a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_note-0"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0">[1]</sup></a>, is a board member and chief executive officer of <a title="People's Advocate" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=People%27s_Advocate">People's Advocate</a>, a California-based advocacy group attempting to suspend California's California's Global Warming Solutions Act, AB32. Costa is also in charge of People's Advocate's <a title="Political action committee" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Political_action_committee">political action committee</a> (PAPAC).

Costa filed the petition and <a title="http://www.nndb.com/people/003/000099703/" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nndb.com/people/003/000099703/">"Drove the 2003 California recall election"</a> against then-Governor <a title="Gray Davis" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gray_Davis">Gray Davis</a>. Costa and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a title="Howard Kaloogian" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Kaloogian">Howard Kaloogian</a> "helped get the Davis Recall off the ground before the professionals took over,"</span> Daniel Weintraub wrote in the <i>Sacramento Bee</i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_note-1">[2]</a></sup></p>

<h2>Contents</h2>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#Background"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Background</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#Personal"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Personal</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#Contact_Information"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Contact Information</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#Articles_and_resources"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Articles and resources</span></a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#Related_SourceWatch_articles"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Related SourceWatch articles</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#References"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#External_resources"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">External resources</span></a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#Profiles"><span class="tocnumber">4.3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Profiles</span></a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#External_articles"><span class="tocnumber">4.4</span> <span class="toctext">External articles</span></a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#By_Ted_Costa"><span class="tocnumber">4.4.1</span> <span class="toctext">By Ted Costa</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#Articles_.26_Commentary"><span class="tocnumber">4.4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Articles & Commentary</span></a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table>

<h2><span class="mw-headline">Background</span></h2>

<p>Costa's website states that he "was educated at the University of California at Davis"<a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_note-Bio-2"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bio_2-0">[3]</sup></a>, although as of 2003 he had not graduated.<a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_note-LATimes2003-3"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-LATimes2003_3-0">[4]</sup></a>

From Costa's website,</p>

<ul>

<li>He served "eight years in the United States Coast Guard" and "graduated from [the] Biological and Chemical Warfare School."<a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_note-Bio-2"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bio_2-1">[3]</sup></a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li>He graduated from the <a title="National Republican Leadership Training School (page does not exist)" class="new" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Republican_Leadership_Training_School&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">National Republican Leadership Training School</a>, was "voted Outstanding Young Republican of the year" and "served as Chairman of the Sacramento County Republican Central Committee."<a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_note-Bio-2"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bio_2-2">[3]</sup></a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li>He was <a title="Paul Gann (page does not exist)" class="new" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Gann&action=edit&redlink=1">P<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">aul Gann</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">'s "assistant in 1982 </span>and, after his death, continued as the chief executive officer" of People's Advocate, Inc..<a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_note-Bio-2"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bio_2-3">[3]</sup></a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li>He now serves as President of the San Juan Water District and is "on the Board of the Central Valley Project Water Association." He has "a plan to build more water storage facilities for our homes and farms," his biographical note states.<a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_note-Bio-2"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bio_2-4">[3]</sup></a></li>

</ul>

<p>"Before joining People's Advocate, he managed over 20 political campaigns."<a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_note-4"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4">[5]</sup></a> In July 2005, Costa became a member of the advisory board of <a title="Take Back California (page does not exist)" class="new" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Take_Back_California&action=edit&redlink=1">Take Back California</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"><a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_note-5">[6]</a></sup></p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline">Personal</span></h2>

<p>Costa lives in Citrus Heights, a suburb of Sacramento, with wife Jayna Karpinski-Costa, a veterinarian and lawyer<a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_note-LATimes2003-3"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-LATimes2003_3-1">[4]</sup></a> who is mayor of Citrus Heights<a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_note-6"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6">[7]</sup></a>.</p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline">Contact Information</span></h2>

<p>Website: <a title="http://www.tedcosta.com" class="external free" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tedcosta.com">http://www.tedcosta.com</a>

Website: <a title="http://www.peoplesadvocate.org" class="external free" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.peoplesadvocate.org">http://www.peoplesadvocate.org</a>

Website: <a title="http://www.fairdistricts.com" class="external free" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.fairdistricts.com">http://www.fairdistricts.com</a> (<a title="Fair Districts Now (page does not exist)" class="new" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fair_Districts_Now&action=edit&redlink=1">Fair Districts Now</a>, "A Special Project of People's Advocate, Inc.")</p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline">Articles and re</span>Related Sourcsources</h2>

<p><a name="Related_SourceWatch_articles" id="Related_SourceWatch_articles"> </a>eWatch articles</p>

<ul>

<li><a title="Republican Party" class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_Party">Republican Party</a></li>

<li><a title="Water wars" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Water_wars">water wars</a></li>

<li><a title="People's Advocate" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=People%27s_Advocate">People's Advocate</a></li>

<li><a title="AB 32 Implementation Committee" class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=AB_32_Implementation_Committee">AB 32 Implementation Committee</a></li>

<li><a title="Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Solutions_Act_of_2006">Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006</a> (AB 32)</li>

</ul>

<h3><span class="mw-headline">References</span></h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_ref-0">↑</a> Ted Costa, <a title="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/09/EDG508477J1.DTL" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/09/EDG508477J1.DTL">"Part-time solution to full-time woes"</a>, <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>, August 9, 2004.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_ref-1">↑</a> <a title="http://web.archive.org/web/20040319032725/http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/insider/archives/001093.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040319032725/http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/insider/archives/001093.html">"Lockyer recall planned"</a>, California Insider (blog), <i>Sacramento Bee</i>, February 24, 2004.</li>

<li id="cite_note-Bio-2">↑ <a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_ref-Bio_2-0"><sup>3.0</sup></a> <a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_ref-Bio_2-1"><sup>3.1</sup></a> <a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_ref-Bio_2-2"><sup>3.2</sup></a> <a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_ref-Bio_2-3"><sup>3.3</sup></a> <a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_ref-Bio_2-4"><sup>3.4</sup></a> <a title="http://www.tedcosta.com/biography.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tedcosta.com/biography.html">"Who Is Ted Costa?"</a>, accessed January 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-LATimes2003-3">↑ <a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_ref-LATimes2003_3-0"><sup>4.0</sup></a> <a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_ref-LATimes2003_3-1"><sup>4.1</sup></a> Joe Mathews (2003-07-14). <a title="http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jul/14/local/me-costa14" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jul/14/local/me-costa14">Little-Known Activist Is Recall Powerhouse</a>. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on 2010-02-21. “enrolled at UC Davis (though he is still just short of a degree). In 1982...he joined up with Proposition 13 crusader Paul Gann, the founder of People's Advocate. ... he lives with his wife, veterinarian and lawyer Jayna Karpinski-Costa, in the suburb of Citrus Heights.”</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_ref-4">↑</a> <a title="http://www.peoplesadvocate.org/ted.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.peoplesadvocate.org/ted.html">"Ted Costa"</a>, People's Advocate website, accessed January 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_ref-5">↑</a> <a title="http://web.archive.org/web/20051227172819/http://www.takebackca.org/node/30" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20051227172819/http://www.takebackca.org/node/30">"Ted Costa Joins Advisory Board"</a>, archived Take Back California website, July 7, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a title="" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Costa#cite_ref-6">↑</a> <a title="http://www.ci.citrus-heights.ca.us/home/index.asp?page=735" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ci.citrus-heights.ca.us/home/index.asp?page=735">City Council</a>. City of Citrus Heights. Retrieved on 2010-02-21.</li>

</ol>

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<h3><span class="mw-headline">External resources</span></h3>

<ul>

<li><a title="http://www.tedcosta.com" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tedcosta.com">Ted Costa's website</a></li>

</ul>

<h4><span class="mw-headline">Profiles</span></h4>

<ul>

<li><a title="http://www.tedcosta.com/biography.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tedcosta.com/biography.html">Biography</a> at <i>TedCosta.com</i>.</li>

<li><a title="http://www.peoplesadvocate.org/ted.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.peoplesadvocate.org/ted.html">Biography</a> at People's Advocate, Inc. (Last updated June 25, 2003.)</li>

<li><a title="http://takebackca.org/advisorybd" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://takebackca.org/advisorybd">Biography</a> at Take Back California.</li>

<li><a title="http://www.nndb.com/people/003/000099703/" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nndb.com/people/003/000099703/">Profile: Ted Costa</a>, <i>NNDB.com</i>.</li>

</ul>

<h3><span class="mw-headline">External articles</span></h3>

<h4><span class="mw-headline">By Ted Costa</span></h4>

<ul>

<li><a title="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/09/EDG508477J1.DTL" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/09/EDG508477J1.DTL">"Part-time solution to full-time woes,"</a> <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>, August 9, 2004.</li>

</ul>

<h4><span class="mw-headline">Articles & Commentary</span></h4>

<ul>

<li>Kim Alexander, <a title="http://www.calvoter.org/news/cvfnews/cvfnews061099.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.calvoter.org/news/cvfnews/cvfnews061099.html">"Will multiple reform measures appear on March 2000 ballot?"</a> CalVoter.org, June 10, 1999.</li>

<li><a title="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/165230" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/165230">"Could Arianna Huffington Become Governor of California?"</a> <a title="Democracy Now!" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Democracy_Now%21">Democracy Now!</a>, July 29, 2003.</li>

<li>Tom Chorneau, <a title="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/recall/20031007-2043-ca-recall-whatnext.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/recall/20031007-2043-ca-recall-whatnext.html">"Schwarzenegger facing challenges in transition to power,"</a> Associated Press (<i>San Diego Union-Tribune</i>), October 7, 2003.</li>

<li>Daniel Weintraub, <a title="http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/insider/archives/000877.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/insider/archives/000877.html">"New district lines for 2006?"</a> <i>The Insider</i>/<i>Sacramento Bee</i>, October 30, 2003.</li>

<li><a title="http://www.theirishlass.blogspot.com/2004_02_22_theirishlass_archive.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.theirishlass.blogspot.com/2004_02_22_theirishlass_archive.html">"Another April 15th Deadline,"</a> <i>the irish lass</i> Blogspot, February 22, 2004.</li>

<li>Daniel Weintraub, <a title="http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/insider/archives/001093.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/insider/archives/001093.html">"Lockyer recall planned,"</a> <i>The Insider</i>/<i>Sacramento Bee</i>, February 24, 2004.</li>

<li>Tom Elias, <a title="https://www.fairdistricts.com/news/news_db-01-03-05.asp" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.fairdistricts.com/news/news_db-01-03-05.asp">"Ted Costa's state district remap measure makes sense,"</a> <i>The Daily Breeze</i> (FairDistricts.com), January 3, 2005.</li>

<li><a title="http://takebackca.org/node/30" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://takebackca.org/node/30">"Ted Costa Joins Advisory Board,"</a> Take Back California, July 7, 2005.</li>

<li><a title="http://www.svgop.com/press/index.cfm/ID/29.htm" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.svgop.com/press/index.cfm/ID/29.htm">"Redistricting Pioneer Addresses GOP Gathering,"</a> Santa Clara County Republican Party of Silicon Valley, July 13, 2005.</li>

<li>John Myers, <a title="http://www.kqed.org/weblog/capitalnotes/2005/07/prop-77-gets-boot-now-what.jsp" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.kqed.org/weblog/capitalnotes/2005/07/prop-77-gets-boot-now-what.jsp">"Prop 77 Gets the Boot, Now What?"</a> <i>Capital Notes</i>/KQED.org, July 21, 2005.</li>

<li>Kevin Drum, <a title="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_07/006774.php" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_07/006774.php">"Redistricting in California,"</a> <i>Washington Monthly</i>, July 22, 2005.</li>

<li><a title="http://talk.ocregister.com/archive/index.php/t-15332.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://talk.ocregister.com/archive/index.php/t-15332.html">"Another One Bites the Dust,"</a> <i>Orange County Register</i> Talk, July 22, 2005.</li>

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 sw</p><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>People's Advocate</b> is a California-based political watchdog and anti-tax organization formed by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Gann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Gann (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none;">Paul Gann</a> in 1974. The group worked to help pass California's Proposition 13</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, which <font color="#ff0000">capped property taxes at 1% of the property's cash value. I</font>n 1979, it helped pass the Gann Spending LImit, which limits state spending increases to inflation and population increase, and requires the State to return surplus taxes back to the people. In 1986, it helped pass an initiative making</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> English the state's official language.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In 2003, it worked to recall California's then-Governor, Gray Davis.</span><sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People's_Advocate#cite_note-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a></sup></p><table id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); font-size: 12px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px;"><tbody><tr><td><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; width: auto; font-size: 12px; display: inline;">Contents</h2> <span class="toctoggle" style="font-size: 11.199999809265137px;"> [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People's_Advocate#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People's_Advocate#Campaign_to_suspend_California.27s_Global_Warming_Solutions_Act.28greenhouse_gas_emissions_law.29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Campaign to suspend California's Global Warming Solutions Act (greenhouse gas emissions law)</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People's_Advocate#Board_and_Officers" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Board and Officers</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People's_Advocate#Contact" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Contact</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People's_Advocate#Articles_and_Resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Articles and Resources</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People's_Advocate#Related_SourceWatch_Articles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Related SourceWatch Articles</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People's_Advocate#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People's_Advocate#External_resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">External resources</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People's_Advocate#External_articles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4.4</span> <span class="toctext">External articles</span></a></li></ul></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19.200000762939453px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Campaign_to_suspend_California.27s_Global_Warming_Solutions_Act.28greenhouse_gas_emissions_law.29">Campaign to suspend California's Global Warming Solutions Act (greenhouse gas emissions law)</span></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">In 2010, People's Advocate started backing a California initiative to suspend the state's Global Warming Solutions Act (also known as Assembly Bill 32), signed into law in 2006. AB 32 requires the state to bring its greenhouse gas emissions down to 1990 levels by the year 2020. The group is part of an effort to gather signatures to put a measure on the state-wide ballot suspending the law until unemployment in the state reaches 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters. Backers of the suspension effort call their measure the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=California_Jobs_Initiative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="California Jobs Initiative (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">California Jobs Initiative</a>. People's Advocate is listed as a supporter of the effort on a Web site,<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.suspendab32.org/index.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">SuspendAB32.org</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People's_Advocate#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a></sup></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">People's Advocate says AB 32 is AB 32 "increases government control of individual decisions" and is "ineffective and counterproductive, massively costly to businesses and families, and will increase our state deficit and/or cut services including those related to public health and environmental protection."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People's_Advocate#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a></sup></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19.200000762939453px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Board_and_Officers">Board and Officers</span></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">The CEO of People's Advocate is <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ted_Costa" title="Ted Costa" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ted Costa</a>, whose duties include soliciting memberships, conducting fundraising, and overseeing the drafting and qualification of the initiative to suspend AB 32. Costa is also in charge of People's Advocate's political action committee. <sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People's_Advocate#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a></sup></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">From the group's 2008 Form 990 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/942/514/2008-942514755-04cf762a-9O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF/+17Es/QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI+Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f/l8V12Ti7uhFFgDj19b58EwXuqkAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[1]</a>, the other officers are:
</p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Esther_Rushford_Greene&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Esther Rushford Greene (page does not exist)" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none;">Esther Rushford Greene</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Director; former director of public affairs for the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">California Chamber of Commerce</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and former Reagan appointee</span><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People's_Advocate#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a></sup></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Cates&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jim Cates (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Jim Cates</a>, Chairman; an electrical engineer <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.peoplesadvocate.org/jim.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[2]</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dan_Benvenuti,_Sr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dan Benvenuti, Sr. (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Dan Benvenuti</a>, Chairman. (His page on the People's Advocate website lists him as "Boardmember Emeritus"<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.peoplesadvocate.org/dan.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[3]</a>.)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Major General<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.peoplesadvocate.org/general.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[4]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sidney_Novaresi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sidney Novaresi (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sidney Novaresi</a>, President</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sonia_Sworak&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sonia Sworak (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sonia Sworak</a>, Director</li></ul><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19.200000762939453px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Contact">Contact</span></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">People's Advocate
3407 Arden Way
Sacramento, California, 95825
</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Phone: 1-916-482-6175
</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Web site: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.peoplesadvocate.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">http://www.peoplesadvocate.org/</a>
Email: tedcosta@tedcosta.com</p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19.200000762939453px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Articles_and_Resources">Articles and Resources</span></h2><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Related_SourceWatch_Articles">Related SourceWatch Articles</span></h3><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ted_Costa" title="Ted Costa" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ted Costa</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Forde_and_Mollrich" title="Forde and Mollrich" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Forde and Mollrich</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/AB_32_Implementation_Committee" title="AB 32 Implementation Committee" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AB 32 Implementation Committee</a></li></ul><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h3><div class="references-small" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11.199999809265137px;"><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-0" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People's_Advocate#cite_ref-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> <span class="reference-text">People's Advocate <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.peoplesadvocate.org/history.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">History of People's Advocate</a> Web site, accessed February 10, 2010</span></li><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People's_Advocate#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> <span class="reference-text">People's Advocate Initiative Committee <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.suspendab32.org/peoples_advocate.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">People's Advocate</a>, Web page, accessed February 10, 2010</span></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People's_Advocate#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> <span class="reference-text">California Jobs Initiative <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.suspendab32.org/ab_32.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">About AB 32</a>, Web site, accessed February 10, 2010</span></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People's_Advocate#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> <span class="reference-text">People's Advocate <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.peoplesadvocate.org/directors.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Directors</a>, organizational Web page, accessed February 10, 2010</span></li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People's_Advocate#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1982/43082a.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Appointments, April 30, 1982</a> (1982-04-30). Retrieved on 2010-02-21. “The President today announced his intention to appoint the following individuals to be members of the Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Education. ... Esther R. Greene has been serving as director of public affairs for the California Chamber of Commerce since 1975. She was born December 31, 1927, and resides in Sacramento, Calif.”</span></li></ol></div><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="External_resources">External resources</span></h3><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="External_articles">External articles</span></h3><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Samantha Young, <i>Associated Press</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hKPBv6ryL27OX8lhnZ0QgZWhXl7QD9DLO7AO0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">GOP lawmakers seek to suspend Calif. climate law</a>, February 5, 2010</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Margo Roosevelt <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/06/local/la-me-ballot-warming6-2010feb06" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Effort underway to suspend California's global-warming law</a> <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, February 6, 2010</li></ul></div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 5px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Categories</a>: <ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style: none none; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-style: none; padding: 0px 0.5em 0px 0.25em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Stubs" title="Category:Stubs" style="text-decoration: none; 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