"Tom McClintock is so far to the right that his own party has problems with him."

His Record Doesn't Lie: Tom McClintock
Posted by: ThosPayne


The way in which a politician is viewed by the people he now represents indicates how he will perform in the future. Comments from Tom McClintock's District 19 constituents
reveals why his home turf in Ventura County - - known as Reagan country - - went from Red to Blue:
- "This district was unrepresented for 8 years under McClintock. McClintock is so far to the right that his own party has problems with him."
- "Conejo Valley residents are an educated bunch. A good number of us are employed by Amgen or Baxter, biotech firms... [we] are savvy about climate change and will discriminate between the good arguments offered by scientists and bad arguments offered by a few feckless politicians. McClintock has “consistently opposed sensible measures to protect our air, water and wild places.” He “opposed important measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles (AB 1493, 2002), to recycle toxic electronic wastes (SB 20, 2003), and to increase California’s supply or clean, renewable energy (SB 1078, 2002).”
- McClintock Attacks Gore, Conservationists; Disputes Global Warming Science (October 29, 2007) - In an October 12 speech to the Western Conservative Political Action Conference, California State Senator Tom McClintock mounted a persuasive, and yet poorly informed attack against Al Gore, conservation, and the most widely accepted scientific theory of global warming. This is fortunate: McClintock’s comments have assured his well-deserved fate of political irrelevance and ignominy. McClintock repeated well-worn Republican jokes about personal jets and Gore’s electricity bill. He mentioned several laughably out-of-date theories about the causes of recent climate change. He even proudly admits that his knowledge about climate change has its most profound roots in his grade school musings... This position is damaging to the Republican party and will cause it to lose votes in California and nationally."
Tom McClintock has long enjoyed a reputation for being a straight-shooting, principled conservative. You may not believe what he believes, but you usually get a sense that he knows what he's talking about. That's why people [here]were stunned when McClintock, in a speech to the Western Conservative Politcal Action Conference, called global warming a "farce." In a rant against environmentalists he blasted the state's new greenhouse emissions law, saying it would hurt industry and (get this) even cause starvation in the world.
Republican supporters said McClintock "seems to be in a time warp. The most recent PPIC poll shows that even 60 percent of Republicans see an immediate need to tackle global warming (82 percent of independents did too). McClintock didn't do himself any favors on this one. He's just handed Democrats and even his likely 2010 Republican gubernatorial primary opponent, Steve Poizner, an issue to campaign on, making it even easier to paint McClintock as an extremist out of touch with California values."
If voters in Los Angeles and Ventura feel McClintock is an anti-environment extremist, consider what he may do to our Auburn-Sierra-Tahoe area?