Gangster Government: California Officials Retaliate Against Prop. 23 Supporters

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- JunkScience.com has learned that California Treasurer Bill Lockyer is retaliating against two Texas-based refiners that are supporting Proposition 23, the California ballot initiative to rollback the state's global warming law until unemployment (now at 12.4 percent) recedes to 5.5 percent.  According to Climatewire, "State Treasurer Bill Lockyer, a former attorney general, urged the state's largest public employee investment funds to divest themselves of Valero and Tesoro stock.  Lockyer sent a letter to the public pension funds, known as CalPERS and CalSTRS, asking them to rid themselves of any stock connected to the refiners Valero and Tesoro. Lockyer charged the companies with attempting to constrain gasoline supplies in California to ensure profits for years to come — and opposing the state's climate change law as a means to ensure that constraint.

"CalPERS and CalSTRS should not be investing in Texas oil companies that hurt the California economy, no more than they should invest in companies that spend millions of shareholder dollars to undermine California's environmental laws and the state's green energy industries and green tech jobs,' Lockyer wrote.  Lockyer, a board member at CalPERS, is expected to ask the board tomorrow to divest Valero and Tesoro holdings during a meeting."

Steve Milloy commented, "This is gangster government at its worst.  Lockyer is behaving like a street thug marking his turf.  Energy companies that support a sound-science, sound economic policy ballot proposition are on notice: public employee pensions are going to dump your stock and slander your name and reputation.  When Californians see their gasoline, grocery and utility bills spiral out of control while more employers flee the state, they should blame thugs like Treasurer Bill Lockyer for further destroying the golden state's economy."

Steve Milloy is the publisher of JunkScience.com and author of Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them.

SOURCE JunkScience.com

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