Letter to Michael Shellenberger on running for governor of California (Bruno Comby) France

To: Michael Shellenberger Founder - President, Environmental Progress Candidate for Governor of California Berkeley, California June 6, 2018 Hello Michael, Thumbs up and a thousand bravos for your hard and well done work running for governor in the Californian election.

You certainly did your best, worked hard and in the proper direction (i.e. for public good). Your campaign was excellent.

You weren't part of the hypocrite orchestra who tends to win all elections making stupid promises and then once elected, do nothing for public good, continue to fool their electorate, while increasing their own privileges and salaries.

As far as I saw from France (one continent and one ocean away) everything you did and said was for public good. You would certainly be a much better governor than the selected candidates.

On my side of the Atlantic Ocean, I ran for elections on 4 occasions. In all cases my pioneer work as an environmentalist and supporting nuclear energy and a leader in environmental thinking was always used by my opponents against me, enabling them to present me as a sort of crazy outsider. Not always easy to be a pioneer.

Be proud of everything you did, and continue your good work! Being pro- or antinuclear, or pro or anti-AGW wouldn't have changed much in this case, in my opinion.

The problem is that you were right and correct by many aspects, and that is VERY disturbing for those who remain stuck in false beliefs, have no real program other than being elected, and makes it hard to gather a majority of the votes.

You were an excellent candidate, but the best candidates don't always win, or, may I say, they usually don't win. Perhaps because they are the best: they would destabilize the old corrupt system that is still resisting hard.

Your good friend and solid supporter in France.

Bruno Comby Founder – President Environmentalists for Nuclear Association des Ecologistes Pour le NuclÊaire Houilles, France