more NO on Initiative 933

brace yourself effie!!!! here it comes....they even have a "How to" manual ....yikes!

This Land: The Northwest Property Rights Movement
The defining environmental controversy of the early 21st century in the Northwest states may well turn out to be the debate over property rights, and Oregon and Washington are taking center stage. A new Daily Score series. The defining
environmental controversy of the early 21st century in the Northwest states may well turn out to be the debate over property rights, and Oregon and Washington are taking center stage.A new Daily Score series by Sightline researcher Eric de
Place.

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Planned Confusion
Posted by Eric de Place on
06/16/2006 at 08:55 AM
Note: This is part of a series on the Northwest property rights movement.

Last week, I wrote about the torrent of look-alike initiatives in the Northwest--933 in Washington; 154 in Montana; and "This House is My Home" in Idaho--and I pointed out their eerie similarity to one another. All three Northwest property initiatives lead off with booming rhetoric about abuses of eminent domain. In reality, however, the initiatives are about an entirely different issue (one that I'll describe in a moment). And all three measures use the same bait-and-switch tactic to mislead to voters. Why would the initiatives all do the same thing? Could it be part of a coordinated national strategy?
In a recent how-to manual, helpfully subtitled: "Exporting
Oregon's Measure 37 to Other States," the Reason Foundation, a pro-business think-tank based in Los Angeles, laid out the strategy: confuse voters.
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