Anti-Climate TV Ads Hit California, Loaded with Lies

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Posted by Brian Merchant at 2:14 pm
October 4, 2010

Anti-Climate TV Ads Hit California, Loaded with Lies
Posted by Brian Merchant on @ 2:14 pm


This post first appeared on Treehugger.

With the elections drawing closer, the oil company-funded Prop 23 campaign has kicked into full gear. The Texas oil companies Valero and Tesoro, along with Koch Industries, a coal and oil conglomerate, have donated millions of dollars to finance TV ads and other campaigns in an attempt to overturn California’s groundbreaking climate and clean energy law, which was passed in 2006. That TV ad has recently been put into heavy rotation in major California markets — and, staying true to form for such political ads, it’s chock full o’ lies.

Here’s the spot: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/10/04/anti-climate-tv-ads-hits-california-loaded-with-lies/

First of all, the tagline: California Jobs Initiative? I guess it’s no longer a requisite for political ads to convey even a shred of truth in naming their political prerogative: The only thing that Prop 23 does is cancel out AB 32, California’s climate law of 2006, which Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law. That’s it. There is no evidence that Prop 23 will create a single job. The goal is to protect the bottom line of oil companies, and other emissions-intensive industries. Period — the initiative was actually put on the ballot by the oil companies, not concerned citizens. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/10/04/anti-climate-tv-ads-hits-california-loaded-with-lies/

This place is crawling with API toadies.

Trolls are on the wild today.

several times now.
Jobs?- Right, sure thing!
:sarcasm:

If by some quirk we had a 'truth in advertising' law for
campaign ads,
this ad along with all of Meg Whitman's and Carly Fiorina's
would disappear!

Like NutMeg in the primaries, they may be saturating more conservative SoCal with their tripe.

Of course, with thunderstorms and crap down there this week, their timing may not be the best.