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Vote No on Prop 16
06/07/10
Vote No on Prop 16
Proposition 16 on the June 8th ballot is easily the most misleading measure of the year. Dubbed the “Taxpayers Right to Vote Act” by its proponents, it should more properly be titled the “Protect PG&E’s Right to Monopolize its Territory Act.” Voters should not be mislead by PG&E’s blatantly misleading advertising and should vote NO on Prop 16. More after the break…
Here are some facts that are not mentioned in the ads:
- PG&E has spent more than $44 million rate-payer dollars to promote this proposition. As they said during Watergate, “Follow the Money!”
- Municipal utilities - which PG&E is desperately trying to keep from expanding - invariably charge their customer LESS for energy than do the Investor-Owned Utilities like PG&E (think PWP’s rates versus SCE’s)
- Voters already have a say - no City could create its own utility without a significant public process that would have to culminate in a public vote by the local city council - if they vote against the public’s will, they will be voted out of office. (Representative democracy at work!)
We urge a No vote on Prop 16!
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