A message from the President- Ocean Czar?

[j mo]

Originally Posted by dos ballenas

What exactly is your point of concern?



Are you still mad about losing the election or what? Get over it.

My point of concern is that the current administration has exemplified California environmental policies and that the MLPA could be used as blueprint for the nation and could be easily passed off to the public as something designed”to save/heal mother ocean".


While California’s budget deficit is the largest single obstacle to implementation, that issue becomes moot w respect to the federal governments ability to implement a "national type" MLPA under the federal stimulus package.


Just a few thoughts. I’ve edited my original email, as my concern with our current state of politics may have offended some.

(Dos BallENAS, I used the plural form "politics" which implies all, or both sides of our political party , Implying that I am equally dissapointed...)

[Fiskadoro]

Originally Posted by j mo

My point of concern is that the current administration has exemplified California environmental policies and that the MLPA could be used as blueprint for the nation...

You probably should look at the MPA process as what your talking about already exists, and it was not created during the Obama Administration but went forward during the Bush administration.

Bush loved MPAs: He worked with Groups like the Ocean Conservancy and created the largest MPAs on the planet.



That area is now all closed to fishing.

You might want to note the the rationalization for that massive closure was seal protection.

Bush couldn't even wait for the MPA process to go through the proper public hearings etc...

He feared it would be held up till the next administration, so he stepped in and staged an intervention and directly signed the reserve into existence with a Presidential decree, a proclamation to create the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument on June 15, 2006.

Originally Posted by j mo

I used the plural form "politics" which implies all, or both sides of our political party , Implying that I am equally dissapointed

Your post is not really equal or nonpartisan, why pretend otherwise? You can't mitigate an attack by adding "I am equally dissapointed" at the end of it, after directing your attack at only one side.

Jim