If you are in California, please vote YES on 37. -Updated

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169. Samples of three fraudulent mailers sent to California voters provided at link below (will not C+P).

http://www.carighttoknow.org/foes_of_honest_labeling

Front Groups Against Prop 37: Foes of Honest Labeling Pose as Fake Cops and Phony Democrats to Trick Voters

For Immediate Release: November 5, 2012

Voter guides from obviously fake front groups posing as cops, literacy groups, green groups and Democrats are making a last-ditch attempt to try to sway voters against Proposition 37.

Pamela Prindle from Albany was alarmed when she received a slate mailer over the weekend from a group she thought was the Democratic Party, advising her to vote against the GMO labeling initiative. “I was so upset, I called the Democratic Party and they said their official position is endorsing Proposition 37,” Prindle said.

Then she realized the mailer -- which features photos of Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy -- was from a group called the Democratic Voter’s Choice which has a notorious reputation for deception. “People are going to get this in the mail three days before the election and they’re not going to take the time to check into it like I did,” Prindle said.

More at link.

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Read more about pay-to-play slate mailers and the huge money being made by dubious characters who apparently have some success convincing voters with their scams, see the San Francisco Sentinel. Link (2010 article, apparently details long-standing shady PR groups): http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=68694