{"id":14594,"date":"2012-10-02T20:41:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T20:41:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-10-02T23:19:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T23:19:41","slug":"insurer-caught-redhanded-lying-in-prop-33-tv-ad-warn-your-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/02\/insurer-caught-redhanded-lying-in-prop-33-tv-ad-warn-your-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurer Caught Red-Handed Lying In Prop 33 TV Ad &#8211; Warn Your Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Hha8mh2ff9o?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You won&#8217;t believe this!<\/p>\n<p>The insurance billionaire behind Prop 33 isn&#8217;t just lying about his phony proposal in the television ads airing this week. He is actually using paid employees to impersonate &#8220;real drivers&#8221; and not disclosing it to voters. We have the proof in this short video.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/stopthesurcharge.consumerwatchdogcampaign.org\/video\/consumer-alert-big-lies-behind-insurer-backed-prop-33-tv-ads\">Please watch the short video exposing the Prop 33 campaign&#8217;s big lies and share it with all the California voters you know to warn them.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Campaign finance law requires that campaigns disclose if they are using paid spokespeople in their television ads, but the insurer-funded Prop 33 campaign didn&#8217;t disclose to viewers that it used two employees of its paid PR firm in advertisements to pose as average drivers.<\/p>\n<p>You can help spread the word. <b><a href=\"http:\/\/stopthesurcharge.consumerwatchdogcampaign.org\/video\/consumer-alert-big-lies-behind-insurer-backed-prop-33-tv-ads\">Watch the short video and post it to your Facebook, Twitter and other accounts.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>California voters shouldn&#8217;t be deceived by one insurance billionaire, Mercury Insurance&#8217;s George Joseph, who has spent $8.4 million to pass Prop 33. &nbsp;Our friends, family and co-workers deserve to know the truth.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>When was the last time an insurance billionaire spent $8.4 million on a ballot measure to save consumers money?<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/stopthesurcharge.consumerwatchdogcampaign.org\/video\/consumer-alert-big-lies-behind-insurer-backed-prop-33-tv-ads\">Please join us in warning California voters.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>__<\/em>___________________________________________________<br \/>\n<br \/>Posted by Jamie Court, President of Consumer Watchdog Campaign and leader of StopProp33.com. &nbsp;For more information about the campaign visit us on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/ConsumerWatchdog\">Facebook<\/a> and on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/StopSurcharge\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You won&#8217;t believe this! The insurance billionaire behind Prop 33 isn&#8217;t just lying about his phony proposal in the television ads airing this week. He is actually using paid employees to impersonate &#8220;real drivers&#8221; and not disclosing it to voters. We have the proof in this short video. Please watch the short video exposing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/02\/insurer-caught-redhanded-lying-in-prop-33-tv-ad-warn-your-friends\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Insurer Caught Red-Handed Lying In Prop 33 TV Ad &#8211; Warn Your Friends<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87,9179],"tags":[10670,10777,10674,10775,8321,10736,10737,10776,9635,10672,10673],"class_list":["post-14594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-87","category-9179","tag-10670","tag-10777","tag-10674","tag-10775","tag-8321","tag-10736","tag-10737","tag-10776","tag-9635","tag-10672","tag-10673"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3No","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}