Election Day is TODAY, June 8th, 2010.
Polls are open 7:00am – 8:00pm.
Contact your county elections office to find out about early voting or where to vote. All polling locations are open 7:00am to 8:00pm. If you have not returned your vote-by-mail ballot yet, you can return it to any polling location in the county where you are registered to vote. It must be received by 8:00pm today – postmarks don’t count!
Prop 16 is the worst special kind of special interest ballot initiative, paid for by a single corporation to benefit a single corporation. Prop 16 would lock PG&E ‘s high rates into the California Constitution by locking out community choice and public power. Prop 16 replaces the current process that allows communities to choose non-profit utilities with a process that would require a super-majority for any choice other than PG&E.
Without a choice, customers will be forced to accept:
- PG&E’s high rates instead of the lower rates of non-profit utilities
- Even higher rates in the future- PG&E has over $6 billion more in rate hikes currently pending at the California Public Utilities Commission.
- PG&E greenwashing instead of real green energy and real green jobs.
Rather than keep their customers by providing excellent service at reasonable rates, PG&E has already spent millions on misinformation campaigns designed to defeat public power initiatives throughout California. They said they would spend up to $35 million to pass Prop 16. They just dumped another $11 million in last week, bringing the latest tally to $46.1 million.
Get out and make sure everyone you know votes NO on Proposition 16 TODAY, June 8, 2010.