VICTORY! Prop 16 Dies, Clearing Path to Clean Energy

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PG&E's Power Grab Defeated by Broad-Based Coalition Prop 16's Demise Clears the Path for Cities to Pursue Community Choice Energy Dear friends, Together, we beat back Prop 16 — the PG&E Power Grab — one of the most brazen attacks to-date on our clean energy future. PG&E pulled all the stops, spending $46.5 million on deceptive ads and mailers compared to our $100,000. Yet when the dust settled, Prop 16 was defeated 52.5% to 47.5%! This is particularly noteworthy given that this was a low turnout election, especially for Democrats. Here in the Bay Area, there was particularly strong opposition to the initiative, with 6 of the 9 counties registering more than 60% NO votes! Thankfully, many more people now realize that there are cleaner, cheaper options than PG&E. Prop 16's failure breathes new life into the Community Choice movement. CleanPowerSF, San Francisco's soon-to-launch Community Choice energy program, can now move forward, and Oakland, Berkeley, and other cities now have all the more reason to consider Community Choice as a viable way to meet their clean energy, climate, and local green jobs goals. JOIN US JUNE 17 FOR "THE FUTURE OF COMMUNITY CHOICE!" Fighting Prop 16 diverted much of our effort from working on solutions over the past six months. That time will have been wasted unless we use this victory as an opportunity to create a broad-based movement for clean, affordable power and green energy jobs. On Thursday, June 17 at 10 am, the Local Clean Energy Alliance is convening a meeting on "The Future of Community Choice" at our offices at 436 14th St. (at Broadway) in downtown Oakland. Please RSVP today! Toward a just, vibrant, and resilient world, —Aaron, Ashley, Belinda, Dave, Jenni, Kirsten, Linda, Nile, Rachel, Rosa, and Tad P.S.: We are deeply grateful to everyone who made this amazing victory possible!  We especially want to thank Mark Toney, Brianna Chesser, Mindy Spatt and the entire TURN team; Megan Matson and Eddie of Mainstreet Moms; Bruce Wolfe and Micheas Herman; SF Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi and David Campos; California Senator Mark Leno; former CEC Commissioner John Geesman; Dave Nakabayashi and Harrison Parker and the rest of the NoProp16Films.org team; Larry Chang; Woody Hastings; Kathleen Elumbra; Paul Fenn and Dave Erickson of Local Power; Larry Fahn of As You Sow; Ben Zolno and Jenni Perez of the One Million Strong campaign; Renata Brillinger of the Climate Protection Campaign; Laura Livoti of French American Charitable Trust; the Courage Campaign; Navina Khanna and Naina Devi; Jack Lin; Ambessa Cantave; Aaron Ableman; Katherine Thompson; Eric Brooks of Our City; Karey Christ-Janer; Craig Fiels; Colin Miller, Tara Marchant, and the Greenlining Institute team; Rebecca Bowe and Bruce Brugmann of the SF Bay Guardian; Susan Mernit of Oakland Local; Councilmembers Jean Quan, Nancy Nadel, and Kriss Worthington; Rob Simpson and Ernie Pacheco of Citizens Against Pollution; Sam Golding; Maikhanh Nguyen; Sheila Chung Hagen; Suzy Karasik; Al Weinrub, Ed Mainland, Kent Lewandowski, Aaron Israel, Kate Kelley and the Sierra Club Bay Chapter team; Tom Taylor of the Harvey Milk Democratic Club; Rebecca Valentine; Ellen Seh; Megan Swoboda, Levana Saxon and the Brass Liberation Orchestra; Alexander Binik; Gera Marin; Dan Berman; Mary Beth and Jim of Ecological Options Network; Emily Kirsch, Hayes Morehouse, and Ian Kim of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights; Rory Cox of Pacific Environment; Andrea Landis and Gale Kaufman and the Kaufman Campaign Consultants team; and everyone who volunteered, handed out leaflets, phone banked, did visibility or social media outreach, fundraised, or appeared in a film.   Please excuse anyone who we inadvertently left out — you all rocked!