Seems like some extra-sleazy attacks on propositions this year. I got a call the other day telling me to ignore the “misleading” description of a proposition, and that it actually was about lowering gas taxes (which were “too high!”). I looked at the prop, and it (truthfully) was described as eliminating some infrastructure spending (which is what lower gas taxes would do). Then there’s the prop where both the pro and con sides both make identical claims to be for improved animal welfare and accuse the other side of being greedy corporate farmers trying to undermine them. The proposition itself claims to improve animal welfare standards while it seems to actually worsen them by over-riding a more stringent, existing law.
Then there’s the California Republican congressmen who are outright lying about their positions - like many of their cohorts, they claim to be staunch defenders of preexisting condition protections (while obviously being the complete opposite). I never though such brazen outright lying about their positions would be successful, but in the Trump era…
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