The Washington Policy Center has obtained documents exposing Governor Gregoire and her chief of staff, Jay “Enviro-Mann” Manning, for what they really are—out of touch enviros indifferent to the economic suffering of the state’s businesses and families caused by the pursuit of their grandiose plans to make Washington greener.
In an internal briefing document stamped “confidential,” Enviro-Mann gloats that Gregoire’s Executive Order (issued 05/21/09) demanding radical regulations to reduce global warming will be so restrictive and costly for the state’s businesses that the “regulated community” (translation: businesses) will practically beg for the more reasonable federal cap and trade regulations.
In his confidential brief, Enviro-Mann notes Gregoire directed the state Department of Ecology (which Enivo-Mann headed before his promotion as Gregoire’s number one henchman) to draft an Executive Order establishing the climate change regulations she unsuccessfully asked the Legislature to pass (SB 5735; the state's version of cap and trade).
No Legislative approval? No problem! The Guv doesn’t let a little thing like rejection from the Legislature get in the way of her global warming agenda. (Gregoire’s climate change Executive Order wasn’t the last time she would thumb her nose at the Legislature to implement her costly global warming regs.)
Enviro-Mann even brags in the brief that the Executive Order he drafted for Gregoire goes even farther than what the legislature refused to pass, calling the new regulations he tacked on “more controversial.” Enviro-Mann smugly explains the controversial additions will ultimately “benefit” Gregoire’s global warming agenda because the “regulated community” will be so burdened by the new regulations that federal cap and trade will look like a real bargain.
But hey, don’t worry about those pesky businesses comprising the “regulated community” Enviro-Mann mentions. Gregoire’s global warming regs might put them under (or force them to more business friendly states), but that’s okay, because she’ll be in Copenhagen trying to recruit the kind of businesses Washington really wants.
