2007 California Environmental Scorecard

As we reported in 2006’s Scorecard, 2006 closed with hopeful signs of change:

• Almost half of the Assembly—37 out of 80 members—were newly-elected freshmen (in 2004 there were 18). In fact, a majority of the Assembly Democratic caucus—25 out of 48—were elected to their first term.
• The voters approved an unprecedented $43 billion in infrastructure bonds, for everything from transportation to housing to flood control.
• Governor Schwarzenegger triangulated his way to easy re-election, cheerfully declaring that his election and the 2006 legislative session ushered in an era of post-partisan cooperation.
• For environmentalists, AB 32 promised to change just about everything.

Alas, it was all too much. The post-election, post-bonds, post-AB 32, post-partisan world, both real and imagined, seemed to drive the legislature and governor to distraction.

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