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**AssinHT** · 01-19-2009, 08:19 PM

I don't even know the details, but it's an old tactic, especially in California, to pick out the most outrageous thing that could happen and say that it will happen if your opponent or your patron doesn't give you lots of money.

It's the way that NPR does business, for instance. Also, North Korea. It's amazing that supposedly well-educated, sophisticated people fall for this tactic so often.

Speaking as someone who has very little idea about Californian law, but don't they have a specific law about how they need a greater than majority vote to reduce the money they spend on initiatives and such, which is what seems to an outsider to be costing them money which could otherwise be used to finance disability and education etc?

01-19-2009, 08:19 PM	#13
AssinHT Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 445 Senior Member	I don't even know the details, but it's an old tactic, especially in California, to pick out the most outrageous thing that could happen and say that it will happen if your opponent or your patron doesn't give you lots of money. It's the way that NPR does business, for instance. Also, North Korea. It's amazing that supposedly well-educated, sophisticated people fall for this tactic so often. Speaking as someone who has very little idea about Californian law, but don't they have a specific law about how they need a greater than majority vote to reduce the money they spend on initiatives and such, which is what seems to an outsider to be costing them money which could otherwise be used to finance disability and education etc?
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