Are the Wheels Coming off the Wagon of the Effort to Repeal AB 32?
You’ve got to wonder why anyone would contribute to the initiative campaign to suspend AB 32 given the way this initiative has come out of the gate. First, look at the polling. On the ballot title and summary, it gets only 37 percent. Since “Yes” campaigns are far more difficult to win (about 80 percent of them lose), conventional wisdom says you need to start out at 60 percent approval just to have a fighting chance. This isn’t even close. Then there are the internal squabbles. Ted Costa of the People’s Advocate, one of the initiative’s sponsors, came out loudly AGAINST the initiative last week, disgusted by the consultant-heavy campaign that he said undermines the integrity of the initiative process. Talk about a headache. Costa says he’s going to continue to spill the beans about the inner-workings of the campaign, and hopes to sign the ballot argument against it. The other sponsor of the initiative, Assemblymember Don Logue, has lost what little creditability with the media he had.
