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Another aspect is that there was exactly $0 in campaign funding to oppose the proposition, whereas there was $3.7MM in favor of it. Campaign contributions are
by throwit1979 14y ago
Another aspect is that there was exactly $0 in campaign funding to oppose the proposition, whereas there was $3.7MM in favor of it.
Campaign contributions are public record, and nobody wants to be seen to be supporting sex offenders. Instant social suicide.
Ref: http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_35,_Ban_on_Human_Trafficking_and_Sex_Slavery_(2012) http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition...
- saurik 14y agoInterestingly, with the vast majority of that (especially so once you factor out some portion of the contributions that had been made to multiple simultaneous campaigns, which ballotpedia can't separate), came from a single person: Chris Kelly (former Chief Privacy Officer of Facebook).