The Lex Files

From the Grab blog: The LA Times gets it right

As you might have heard, voters in California yesterday had to vote on eight different ballot measures, because of a special election called for by our Governator.



Lauren and I received literally hundreds of emails, and a dozen or more automated phone calls, in the weeks leading up the election. “Vote No on 77!” “Vote Yes on 77!” “Vote No on 73 and 74, Yes on 78, And Abstain From Any Propositions With Prime Numbers!”



Not to mention the thousands of commercials we had to TiVo through. (My favorite featured Judge Wapner literally shouting “NO on 77!” three times in a row at the end of the ad.)



As it turns out, every single ballot measure lost. So the state spent millions of taxpayer dollars on the election, and interested parties spent hundreds millions more on advertising dollars — for nothing to change.



The LA Times has a fabulous headline today: “No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No.”



Sounds like my freshmen year of college. (Rim shot!)