Huntington Beach mayor receives environmentalists' nod

The California League of Conservation Voters has endorsed Huntington Beach Mayor Debbie Cook for Congress in the 46th Congressional District.

"Mayor Cook has a long record of achievement on environmental, public health and other issues
important to the people of the 46th District," said CLCV's Southern California Director David Allgood.

The organization cited Cook's pro-active stance In 1989, when she fought efforts to destroy the city's parks and beaches by private development. She led a group that collected 18,000 signatures for a successful ballot measure to require voter approval in order to build in Huntington Beach public parks and beaches.

As an attorney, Cook joined the Bolsa Chica Land Trust legal team, winning a case that protects sensitive coastal habitat throughout the state, the organization added.

As mayor, the organization noted, Cook led the fight to stop the Orange County Sanitation District from
dumping partially-treated sewage into the ocean.

The California League of Conservation Voters is the non-partisan
political action arm of California's environmental movement. The organization's 
mission is to protect the environmental quality of the state by
increasing public awareness of the environmental performance of all
elected officials, working to elect environmentally responsible
candidates, and holding them accountable to the environmental agenda
once elected.

The 46th Congressional District covers a two-county area bounded by
Costa Mesa on the south and the Palos Verdes Peninsula on the north.