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Washington
State's Climate Exec Order Challenged

By Paul Chesser on 7.21.10 @ 2:05PM

Today the Evergreen Freedom Foundation's Constitutional Law Center announced
they would, on behalf of Washington State taxpayers, sue Democrat Gov.
Christine Gregoire because last year she issued
an executive order implementing climate change measures that the
Democrat-run state legislature had rejected.

“We believe Gov. Gregoire’s climate change executive order is an
unconstitutional order,” said Michael Reitz, director of the Evergreen Freedom
Foundation’s Constitutional Law Center, who represents the taxpayers in this
case. “Gov. Gregoire violated the doctrine of separation of powers by
snatching a failed bill out of the legislative process and issuing it in the
form of an executive order. If the governor wants to pass laws, she’s in the
wrong branch of government.”

Indeed, Gregoire is such an Unconstitutionalist (as a former attorney
general, she should know better) that she
admitted openly last year she wanted to circumvent Washingtonians' elected
representatives, telling the Los Angeles Times, "I wanted
cap-and-trade. I didn't get it."

Used to using threats to get what
she wants, she instead used the hissy fit measure at her disposal and forced
the state Department of Ecology to redirect hundreds of thousands -- if not
millions -- of dollars from budget-authorized air quality programs to her global
warming agenda. Among her directives were
to join the wasteful Western
Climate Initiative, force private business to report their emissions, and
develop a low-carbon fuel standard. Kind of like her own, self-created EPA
endangerment finding.

She's about as far out in left field as she can get, as the Washington Policy
Center environmental director Todd Myers explained.
"Her party controls both chambers, ... and they still wouldn’t pass it," he
said. "When you’re pushing policy over the wishes of people in your own party, I
think that’s very dangerous.” Even more so when you consider her
approval ratings, although this is not an election year for her.

topics:
Global Warming, Environmentalism, Climate Change

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about a 1,000,000:1 weighting ratio ...
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