Follow the money. Always. On the left, in blue, you see who is supporting the YES position, and how much they’ve spent. On the right, in red, you can see who is opposing and how much they’re spending.
In general, I support unions and I support workers. In general, I oppose corporations and monopolies who seek to manipulate our laws with deceptive advertising and ballot initiatives.
In general, as long as I’ve been a voter (since 1990) I’ve been able to conclude that I want to support the opposite position I’m seeing on television, because the corporations and sick billionaires who pay for blanket television advertising NEVER share my values.
So this is a very useful graphic that shows you who is paying for the pro and against campaigns in California. It follows my instincts, and doesn’t affect how I was going to vote, but it’s still striking to see, visually, how much corporations are spending to influence our votes.
Look at 22, which was put on the ballot to undermine legislation already passed to protect gig workers and require the companies who are exploiting them to pay them a living wage, offer benefits, and treat their drivers with the respect and compensation they deserve.
Uber and the rest of them are so greedy, they are willing to spend almost $200 MILLION DOLLARS to make sure they don’t have to pay their drivers a living wage. They want the public and their drivers to believe that, if Uber et al are required to pay them a living wage, it’s going to somehow hurt their employees.
If these companies are willing to spend $200 million to enshrine into law their ability to exploit their workers, how much money are they withholding from their drivers?!
Follow the money. Support workers. Vote NO on 22 and YES on 23.