Brown urged to adopt Transparency Code
Legal Newsline
April 18, 2008
By Chris Rizo
One of California's leading taxpayer advocates Friday took aim at Attorney General Jerry Brown for filing legal actions against greenhouse gas emitters, including governments at all levels, at the same time the Golden State faces a historic cash crunch.
Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, said, for example, when Brown sued the County of San Bernardino a year ago, taxpayers there were forced to pay for both sides of the case. "It is difficult to see how the people of California come out ahead when they are forced to sue themselves," Coupal wrote in an op-ed published Friday by CaliforniaRepublic.org.
