I added some of my own content to the base article written by Mr. Hogue…

I was at the gym tonight and I saw some very misleading ads about proposition 93 – they were touting the fact that it reduces the amount of time you can serve from 14 to 12 years… It also touts being able to get more done as a result.

They conveniently ignore facts that Eric Hogue brings up in his press release today:

Titled “Limits on Legislators’ Term in Office”, Prop 93 is probably the most deceptive ballot measure Californians have faced in a generation. While it’s being described as ‘term limits reduction’, what it would really do is give the free-spending, irresponsible, big-government lawmakers currently in office even more time in office.

Prop 93 was crafted by the same lawmakers who moved California’s Presidential Primary from June to February, at a cost of millions of dollars for an added election. The excuse for moving up the election was that California would have more say in the selecting the Presidential candidates.

Well, have you seen the Presidential candidates, or even their campaign workers knocking on doors in your neighborhood? The truth is…during a period of record budget deficits created by the current leadership in Sacramento, we now have to pay for an expensive, extra February election that was forced upon us by the legislative ‘fat cats’ who brought us the deficit in the first place – Misters Nunez and Perata.

Worse yet, if Prop 93 passes, these same ‘Capitol cats’ will have time to file their re-election papers and make the ballot for California’s ‘real primary’ come June.

This deceptive labeling was no accident. All ballot measures are submitted to the Attorney General, who gets final say on every ballot measures’ “title and summary” – This is simply the name of the proposition and a small descriptive that we all read as we study the ballot measures.

The Attorney General (and Democrat loyalist) Jerry Brown went right along with the Prop 93 crowd, calling it a term limits reduction. Why? Because Brown and his “teammates” Nunez and Perata know that most people who actually vote in this state don’t trust the legislature, and understand that political corruption and too much time in office go hand-in-hand. So, when the voters read “Limits on Legislators” in the voting booth, their first instinct will be to pull that YES lever – don’t do it, it’s a trick.

Preying upon the voter’s cynical attitude toward the legislators is their strategy, and it is working. Although the latest poll results on Prop 93 shows that support for the measure is slipping, a majority of conservative voters still support it.

While it is a tiny reduction in terms limits, it is an “immediate” and huge reward for the irresponsible crowd who runs the State Capitol currently. Prop 93 is so poorly written, it could even allow former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown back into the legislature.

Proposition 93 is absurd and needs to be defeated.