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CleanTechnica has written a series of articles about the deceptive wording on Florida's Amendment 1, which is meant to slow the Sunshine State's rooftop solar growth and even penalize it — despite language that initially makes it look like a pro-solar amendment. A new press release from the US Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) reveals that Florida voters are waking up to the deception, but that the big utilities are playing hardball now to keep it up, pumping millions of dollars more into misleading ads before election day.
Fortunately, all of the press (and Elon Musk tweeting) about Amendment 1 have made many voters aware that it is a proposal to benefit utility monopolies like Florida Power & Light, not the people of Florida. But Florida's utilities aren't willing to give up. In fact, they are showing how valuable they consider this anti-solar legislation to be, pouring $3.5 million more into misleading advertisements in the closing days before all ballots are cast. SEIA writes:
"Polls conducted this past week indicate a sharp momentum shift on the anti-solar Amendment 1 ballot initiative in Florida. As public backlash mounts, the electric utility interests funding the deceptively worded amendment have doubled down, reportedly spending another $3.5 million to continue to deceive Floridians."
Lying at such low elevation, Floridians should have particular interest in not contributing to the higher global mean temperatures that drive higher sea levels.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @04:37PM
You think the democrats are not doing the same exact thing? These people give you a face of 'we are going to take down those dirty XYZs' then turn around and do the exact same thing.
Take net neutrality. Something all republicans are against? Right? Riiiight? Spin back the clock to 2005. It was the exact opposite. Nothing really changed other than who people were voting for. The republicans were against anything that limited the net. The democrats wrote bills that tried to tax it and limit what could go on there. Spin the clock forward to today. Well look at the 180 positions. Our legislatures and congress and even president are little more than sock puppets for the businesses that actually write our laws. In one case here in NC with a internet thing the dude didnt even bother answering the phone. TWC had a phone bank setup for him and ran his phones to answer about the bill they wrote. That man was a 'democrat'. Bill was shot down by the republicans. Spin forward on year. Pretty much same bill introduced by a republican. Same phone bank thing. It passed. This is how bought and brazen these companies are about this.
Trump is a interesting one. Both parties elites turned on him. The republicans got the message quick from their voters. Step in line with Trump or forget having that cushy voting job anymore where you lie to us everyday.
I'd hope public opinion would cry out against it.
Not sure you have been paying attention then. Things like Sanders, Trump, BLM, Tea Party (before co-opt), 99%, 2014 (vote em out), etc are the cracks starting to show. People are done with this BS. Take something like Trump. People normally do not stand in 2 mile long lines to get into political a rally. It just does not happen. Yet in the past few months it is nearly a daily occurrence. People are pissed at the system. They are looking to pick the guy who tips over the apple cart just for something different than rip you off smile and say too bad your job went to Bangalore should have studied something else. People start of fairly 'nice' about it. But eventually they will feel fed up about it.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday November 08 2016, @10:11PM
Both are corrupt. But there is a difference. Republicans embraced the anti-science, anti-education, and anti-fact crowd. They want to instill propaganda in our children, and call that education. Democrats aren't above lying and denial-- their stance on intellectual property law and love affair with Hollywood comes to mind-- but I have yet to see them embrace ignorance the way Republicans have. Republicans haven't yet dared to openly say they want to turn the nation towards barbarism, turn life back into nothing more than the savage and dead simple endless contest for food and mates, but many of them would like that. Look at the recent history of Cambodia for an example of how that turned out, when the Khmer Rouge was in power. They killed people for being smart. If you wore glasses, that meant you might be smart, and they'd kill you for it. Republicans still try to pretend there is rational thought behind their opinions and stances, but nominating Trump is the closest they've come yet to removing the mask.
Republicans love, love, love one part of the government they so profess to hate: the military. And of course they love guns and police. What is the purpose of having such an enormous military? If it's jobs, why can't we employ all those soldiers more usefully, by, for instance, fixing our highways? Even to them it's obvious enemies of the kind that Climate Change is can't be defeated with a few bullets and bombs. So they engage in denialism about that. But a large military is useful for competing with rival groups of humans for land, resources, and mates. Republicans are real obnoxious and entirely too sure of victory, seem to think it will be no problem to beat up a bunch of Muslim terrorists if only the namby-pamby peacenik spoilsport Democrats can be shoved out of the way.