I've complained often enough about California politics, but we have an especially odious couple of corporate-sponsored initiatives out here this time. Both Prop 16 and Prop 17 are nothing more than PG&E and Mercury Insurance respectively funneling their dollars toward deceiving voters so as to further their corporate interests. PG&E's campaign is particularly galling and deceitful. I feel confident that their efforts to convince voters that they need to protect themselves from politicians by erecting a 2/3 vote barrier between PG&E's monopoly and any attempt to establish a municipal power plan will come very close to being successful. After all, how could anything called the Taxpayer's Right to Vote Act, with countless full page newspaper ads and radio spots not be in your interest?
Should you care even if you're safely ensconced in a saner state (hey, Virginia and Florida, don't get all puffy, I wasn't talking about you!)? I think you should, because through the joy of the Citizen's United decision, you can expect more of this unfettered and open corporate politicking in the future. As usual, we're just a little ahead of the curve out here, and it ain't all that fun.
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You may have seen this story I can't locate right now about some guy in Herndon Va. in a manuever intended to mock the recent ruling tried to have his corporation run for some local office, it was laughed at for some time around here. Of course the whole thing crashed and burned when there was some problem with his petition. Corporations arn't people..yet
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