What if Kathleen Falk Wins?

If Kathleen Falk wins the Wisconsin Attorney General election, what can we expect? The future can not be predicted with total accuracy but trends and tendencies can be determined by looking at comparable situations. Something like California.

Calif. sues 6 carmakers in global warming suit: Lockyer, a Democrat, said the complaint states that under federal and state common law the automakers have created a public nuisance by producing "millions of vehicles that collectively emit massive quantities of carbon dioxide."

The Democratic Attorney General of California actually files suit in Federal Court this week against Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Chrysler, Honda and Nissan. The environmentalists in the Democratic Party are completely serious about being anti-car. Individual freedom of movement is the absolute antithesis of government control of their subjects. Lockyer, however, may have gone a bridge to far in going after Big Auto.

Nuisance Lawsuit: When companies are accused of breaking state law, then it's understandable when the state attorney general files a suit against them. That's a key role of a state's top cop. But it's reprehensible when an attorney general uses the powers entrusted to him to launch what can best be described as a political witch hunt against companies that are out of favor.

The lesson of the tobacco litigation is that public power can coerce big dollars from business, but it helps when the business has individually observable problems, like Aunt Jenny with cancer. The problem with going after personal transportation is that the theory of human induced global warming being bad for the planet is still a theory, and a completely wrong theory in terms of catastrophic predictions. Kathleen Falk, however, is a true believer environmentalist and she will absolutely want to sue any business she believes harms her concept of perfect nature.

2006 Car Free Challenge September 22 - October 5, 2006. Reducing your car use is the most significant action you can take to benefit the environment.

Thanks to our 2006 Sponsors. Alliant Energy, City of Madison, Community Car, Dane County, J.H. Findorff & Son, Fiore Companies, Home Savings Bank, Insty Prints, L'Etoile Restaurant, Madison Gas & Electric, Planet Bike, Trek Bicycle Store of Madison, UW-Madison Transportation Service.

Official sponsors of the 2006 Car Free Challenge include Dane County (Kathleen Falk) and the City of Madison (her hand picked mayor). One more time, the environmentalists in the Democratic Party are completely serious about being anti-car and, whenever they can, they will use the courts to advance their agenda.