{"id":9569,"date":"2017-10-12T11:16:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=9569"},"modified":"2017-12-05T21:36:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T03:36:52","slug":"when-it-comes-to-the-energy-transition-governors-matter-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/12\/when-it-comes-to-the-energy-transition-governors-matter-a-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"When it comes to the energy transition, Governors matter A LOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Minnesota, and I&#8217;m here to tell you that our governor is pretty good, but he&#8217;s retiring.  No, not just his personality, he is actually retiring as in not running for re-election. My choice to replace him is Rebecca Otto who has the best energy transition policy bar none. <\/p>\n<p>Find out about the policy here:<a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/rebecca-ottos-clean-energy-plan-minnesota\/\"><strong> Rebecca Otto\u2019s Clean Energy Plan for Minnesota<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPlease go contribute to her campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaotto.com\/donate\">HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>(Rebecca is also <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/rebecca-otto-far-strongest-progressive-candidate-minnesota-governor-2018\/\">the strongest candidate <\/a>to run and win in Minnesota.)<\/p>\n<p>But there are some other great-for-energy governors running as well.  Get Energy Smart NOW! has information  on Ralph Northam, and he is running on a &#8220;climate change is real&#8221; and &#8220;we have to do something about this&#8221; platform, against &#8220;Enron Ed&#8221; Gillespie. <\/p>\n<p>The post is: <a href=\"http:\/\/getenergysmartnow.com\/2017\/10\/12\/when-it-comes-to-virginia-being-concerned-about-environmentclimate-demands-vote-for-northam\/\">When it comes to Virginia, being concerned about environment\/climate demands vote for Northam<\/a>. Check it out and find out what a good Virginia governor looks like.<\/p>\n<p>Note, the governor&#8217;s race in virginia is old-style. They do it in odd years.  So, now.  Also, while Northam is leading Enro Ed in the polls, there are experts who believe these polls are off.  So, get involved!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Minnesota, and I&#8217;m here to tell you that our governor is pretty good, but he&#8217;s retiring. No, not just his personality, he is actually retiring as in not running for re-election. My choice to replace him is Rebecca Otto who has the best energy transition policy bar none. Find out about the policy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/12\/when-it-comes-to-the-energy-transition-governors-matter-a-lot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When it comes to the energy transition, Governors matter A LOT<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5034],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NorthamGovVirginia.png?fit=1451%2C497&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2ul","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9572,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569\/revisions\/9572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}