Awesome Yes on Prop 98 Ad

by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

 My Disclosure.

The Yes on Prop 98 folks have launched what I think might go down as one of the most melodramatic ads ever.  It starts with a couple of kids, who we are made to believe who are siblings who have been ruthlessly forced to move by the big, bad "gummamint" through their evil eminent domain. They'll never get to see their friends again!

Unfortunately, they didn't get to talk to the kids of renters who will be forced to move when the landlords who funded this measure kick them and their families out of their apartments. For the children who will be pushed out of California's major cities because rent control is ended and eviction protections are obliterated.  Apparently, only kids whose parents own a house matter.

Of course, relatively few homes (typically on the order of a few dozen in the state per year) are actually purchased through the use of eminent domain. Furthermore the vast majority of these incidents involve public uses of the land, roads, fire stations, that kind of thing. But the truth was never really an obstacle the right-wingers cared much about.

But the tide is clearly turning against the Landlords power grab. Even Republicans, like former Governor Pete Wilson, and the odious and ineffective George Radonovich (R-Mariposa), are turning against this stinker of a proposition. But these ads are going up across the state, and turnout will be shockingly low. So, we need to turn out voters from LA and SF. Check out the No on Prop 98 Website for what you can do to help.