Misleading Prop 16 Ads Popping Up Across California Media Spectrum

Those unfamiliar with California Proposition 16 would be wise to read eXiled Online editor Yasha Levine‘s take from several weeks ago — entitled simply: “How PG&E Plans To Screw The Golden State By Enshrining Its Corporate Energy Monopoly In the California Constitution” — because with the statewide vote less than a week away we’ve begun seeing severely misleading ads pop up just about everywhere.

The law would require municipalities currently using private energy to have a two-thirds vote if they wanted to switch to public power. Private power company PG&E is spending 511 times more money on advertising than its opponents to get the bill passed.

The California Public Utilities Commission has already scolded PG$E for some of its misleading claims, and the Sacramento Bee just dissected a statewide pro-Prop 16 TV spot — which falsely blamed the state’s economic woes on public power.

This one even popped up in this Fishie’s own online backyard, equating Prop 16 with the “right to vote.”

We feel dirty. Very very dirty.

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