Investigating Power
The head of the think tank that provided research for a utility-backed solar amendment on the November ballot said his policy director “misspoke” when he characterized the effort as a strategy to deceive voters into thinking that the plan was a pro-solar amendment.
Leaked recording reveals role of utilities in a political campaign to deceive voters in the state of Florida into supporting an anti-solar constitutional amendment.
Opponents of Amendment 1 on Wednesday said a recorded presentation on the solar ballot initiative showed “fraudulent” intent by utilities backing the initiative.
Sal Nuzzo, a vice president at the James Madison Institute in Tallahassee, called Solar Amendment 1, which has received more than $21 million in utility industry financing, ‘an incredibly savvy maneuver.’
Audio from a conservative conference confirms that Amendment 1 is trying to mislead voters in order to pass the Florida initiative.
Solar-energy supporters fighting proposed constitutional Amendment 1 on the November ballot expressed outrage Wednesday after a policy director for a Tallahassee-based think tank was caught on tape discussing utility-industry efforts to deceive voters.
Critics of Amendment 1 on next month’s ballot in Florida teed off on the sponsors of that measure on Wednesday, following an explosive report in the Miami Herald quoting a policy director with the James Madison Institute as saying the utility industry is trying to deceive voters into supporting restrictions on solar power by supporting the amendment.
Solar power will be on the ballot in November. Amendment 1 is being billed as pro-consumer, but it’s being backed by big money donors.
Florida’s utilities industry attempted to deceive voters into supporting restrictions on the expansion of solar by shrouding Amendment 1 as a pro-solar amendment.
Wisconsin, Ohio, Texas, and North Carolina won’t stop suppressing the vote.