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Advertisements with inaccurate data aid foes of wider bottle law
A barrage of critical television advertisements containing information that state statistics show is false has apparently led to a dramatic increase in opposition to a November ballot proposal to expand the state bottle law.
Since opponents began blanketing the airwaves — two spots that contain the inaccurate statistics have aired more than 500 times in recent weeks in the Boston and Springfield areas — support for expanding the bottle law has dwindled to just 33 percent, while 60 percent said they would vote against it, a new Boston Globe poll shows.
That finding is a near-reversal of a Globe poll in August that found 62 percent of likely voters supported expansion of the landmark environmental law. Then the ads opposing Question 2 began to run, fueled by nearly $8 million in contributions from the American Beverage Association and large supermarket chains.
If it passes, the bottle law initiative will extend the state’s current nickel deposit to bottled water, sports drinks, and other noncarbonated beverages. Designed to encourage recycling and reduce litter, the 32-year-old law currently requires a nickel deposit on soda, beer, and malt beverage containers.....Supporters of the ballot initiative, who have raised about $700,000 from environmental groups and have yet to air television spots, have called their opponents’ ads “false or misleading.” They have urged the office of Attorney General Martha Coakley to investigate, and have asked TV stations to stop airing the ads....
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/02/bottle-question-supporters-decry-ads-support-grows-for-opponents-question/hJG1Hc20xLOIEO4aZWa3PM/story.html?p1=Article_FeatureStrip
Since opponents began blanketing the airwaves — two spots that contain the inaccurate statistics have aired more than 500 times in recent weeks in the Boston and Springfield areas — support for expanding the bottle law has dwindled to just 33 percent, while 60 percent said they would vote against it, a new Boston Globe poll shows.
That finding is a near-reversal of a Globe poll in August that found 62 percent of likely voters supported expansion of the landmark environmental law. Then the ads opposing Question 2 began to run, fueled by nearly $8 million in contributions from the American Beverage Association and large supermarket chains.
If it passes, the bottle law initiative will extend the state’s current nickel deposit to bottled water, sports drinks, and other noncarbonated beverages. Designed to encourage recycling and reduce litter, the 32-year-old law currently requires a nickel deposit on soda, beer, and malt beverage containers.....Supporters of the ballot initiative, who have raised about $700,000 from environmental groups and have yet to air television spots, have called their opponents’ ads “false or misleading.” They have urged the office of Attorney General Martha Coakley to investigate, and have asked TV stations to stop airing the ads....
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/02/bottle-question-supporters-decry-ads-support-grows-for-opponents-question/hJG1Hc20xLOIEO4aZWa3PM/story.html?p1=Article_FeatureStrip
If you can't win the day with facts, lie, I guess...I hope they get their asses handed to them.