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posted by cmn32480 on Friday November 18 2016, @03:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the power-of-social-media dept.

Floridians for Solar Choice reports

[November 8,] Florida voters rejected Amendment 1--the utility-backed proposal that sought to limit the growth of customer-owned solar power in the Sunshine State.

In a true David and Goliath battle, a diverse grassroots coalition of more than 200 organizations, solar companies, elected officials, and thousands of concerned citizens worked to defeat the deceptive utility-backed amendment. Amendment 1 opponents feel that a significant percentage of the "yes" voters felt they were tricked once they understood the true nature of the ballot measure. Constitutional amendments in Florida require 60 percent support to pass.

The millions of dollars in slick ad buys and glossy mailers did not win the day as opponents of Amendment 1 successfully harnessed social and earned media to educate Floridians about the true intent of this deceptive proposal while tapping a vast network of organizations, solar businesses and supporters who remain committed to growing--not restricting--Florida's solar industry.

[...] "In all my years of public service, I had never seen such a thinly-veiled attempt to intentionally mislead Florida voters" [...] said Mike Fasano (R), a former state Senator and current tax collector of Pasco County Tax.

Previously, PhilSalkie pointed out how easy it was to be confused by the competing proposals and other Soylentils weighed in on the disgusting state of electric infrastructure in Florida.
Florida Voters [Overwhelmingly] Approve Solar Energy Tax Break Constitutional Amendment


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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday November 18 2016, @05:43PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Friday November 18 2016, @05:43PM (#428956) Journal

    In other, OTHER news, they voted for Trump!
    Getting high, and getting by in Florida!!! :)

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @07:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @07:55PM (#429063)

    Actually, they voted -against- continued Neoliberalism.

    If you think about it just a moment, you realize that the Democrats shot themselves in the foot.
    They ran the -only- candidate that Trump was capable of beating.
    Martin O'Malley or Jim Webb would have beat Trump.
    Bernie Sanders, who was drawing crowds of 20,000 or more EVERYWHERE he spoke, would have stomped Trump.

    ...and, even after the Blues' subterfuge, had Jill Stein's invitation to assume the Green Party candidacy for president been taken by Bernie, we'd be talking about President-elect Sanders (as well as how the Greens, just as the Republicans had in 1860, came from the shadows to become the new 2nd party of USAian politics).

    The Democrat Party elites pulled every string and stabbed every back in order to make sure that their **weakest** candidate got the nomination.

    .
    This guy has a pretty solid understanding of where we are and where the Blues and the country as a whole needs to be.
    He's sliced it into easily-digestible chunks.
    Forty Short Post-Election Theses: Where We Stand Now and Where We Go From Here [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [counterpunch.org]

    Some samples:
    #9 - the electorate took a massive gamble too, they chose to end unbearable stagnation under Neoliberalism, even at the risk of bringing on something apocalyptic. They knew the risks, but they could not bear neoliberal precariousness anymore.

    #7 - The Democratic Party insisted on nominating a scandalous candidate not because they are stupid but because they wanted to preserve Neoliberalism at all costs. This is why the entire party establishment fell in line; it was more important to protect Neoliberalism than [to] stop Fascism. They deliberately gambled with the future of the country and lost.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @08:04PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @08:04PM (#429074)

      Warmonger Keith Ellison is the WRONG guy to lead the Blues. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [counterpunch.org]
      (I agree strongly with David Swanson's choice of Dennis Kucinich, a guy who grew up poor and knows what it's like to like in a car.)

      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @08:07PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @08:07PM (#429076)

        s/like in a car/live in a car

        -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]