Voter skepticism of big moneyed interests could play role in fall campaign

SACRAMENTO -- The big smackdown of big money in Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD set's primary might have big implications for the fall.

The same level of skepticism that voters showed in rejecting lavish, Alias DVD boxset dollar messages of two corporate-backed ballot measures could doom campaigns that hope that money alone will buy an Arrested Development DVD boxset in the fall, political observers said.

And voters in a handful of Democratic legislative As Time Goes By DVD boxset also rejected candidates backed by the insurance and oil industries, signaling an anti-corporate mood that may spur Democrats as they face two wealthy Battlestar Galactica DVD boxset at the top of the Republican ticket.

"This has been an election drenched in money," said Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD boxset, a visiting political science professor at the Hoover Institution. "There were lots of things that showed the limits of money in Alias Seasons 1-5 DVD boxset, nothing more than props 16 and 17."

Propositions 16 and 17 were measures backed by PG&E and Mercury Arrested Development Seasons 1-3 DVD boxset, respectively, in which they combined to spend $62 million against woefully underfunded opponents -- and As Time Goes By Seasons 1-9 DVD boxset.

In the case of PG&E, spending $46 million to pass a "self-serving Battlestar Galactica Seasons 1-4 DVD boxset at a time when they are asking for a $1.1 billion rate increase was too much for voters," said Larry Gerston, political-science Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seasons 1-7 DVD boxset at San Jose State University.

"Any time interest groups are spurned, it really does show that the Alias DVD is not about to roll over because a lot of money is spent," Gerston added.

Consumer groups hailed the victories of Democratic Arrested Development DVD over industry-backed opponents in five primary contests, saying that voters reacted unfavorably once they found out that big money was behind the As Time Goes By DVD of campaign mailers reaching their doorstep.

In the race to succeed Assemblyman Alberto Torrico, D-Fremont, Battlestar Galactica DVD, a candidate with the backing of insurance companies, Garrett Yee, fell in defeat to Bob Wieckowski, who had the support of more traditional Democratic Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD, labor and trial attorneys.

"Right now in California, having the support of oil and Alias DVD set is the kiss of death in a Democratic primary," said Niall McCarthy, a vice president and political chairman of Consumer Attorneys of Arrested Development DVD set. "Voters have had five to six years of watching undeterred greed in the business community, and now their corporate As Time Goes By DVD set are coming back to haunt them at the ballot box."

Sam Sorich, the president of the Association of California Insurance Battlestar Galactica DVD set, disagreed, saying people should not read too broadly into the results.

"I don't think there's a basis to make a general conclusion that voters are Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD set to anything business might support," he said. "It's just as incorrect to say that people in favor of previous initiatives backed by Alias DVD boxset that passed supported it just because they were put on the ballot by business."

Consumer groups are already gearing up for a bruising battle over an Arrested Development DVD boxset, backed by large oil companies, that would suspend Assembly Bill 32, the state's emissions As Time Goes By DVD boxset law scheduled to take effect next year.

And Democrats have for weeks been painting Meg Battlestar Galactica DVD boxset, the billionaire Republican gubernatorial nominee and former CEO of eBay, as a creature of the culture of greed and excess.

"There is an anti-corporate sentiment out there, and I do think it's not Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD boxset for Whitman to be identified with the corporate culture, certainly in the general election," said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, political Alias Seasons 1-5 DVD boxset at the University of Southern California.

Whitman spent $71 million of her personal wealth in the primary alone to defeat Arrested Development Seasons 1-3 DVD boxset opponent Steve Poizner and has promised to spend $150 million to win, and could easily exceed that total in what is As Time Goes By Seasons 1-9 DVD boxset to be a brutal race with Democrat Jerry Brown.

"Whitman is going to see a backlash if she doesn't watch how she spends her Battlestar Galactica Seasons 1-4 DVD boxset," Gerston said. "As time goes on this kind of spending begins to weigh on people. It bought her legitimacy in the campaign, but if that kind of spending continues at that outrageous rate, say another $100 million, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seasons 1-7 DVD boxset becomes is she doing it to be known or is she trying to buy the election?"

Republicans say that Brown's accusations against Whitman's excessive spending will Alias DVD less because he will have big-bucks backing of labor, though they're unlikely to come close to matching Whitman's spending.

Still, the lesson from the primary is clear, said Tom Arrested Development DVD, vice chairman of the state Republican party: Candidates and initiative campaigns can't appear self-serving.

"This campaign showed that just throwing a lot of money at today's As Time Goes By DVD isn't enough," said Del Baccaro, a former chairman of the Contra Costa County GOP. "The voters' ability to get information through the Battlestar Galactica DVD and other sources makes this a more sophisticated electorate."

Voters had to work hard to sift through the "obfuscation" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD" employed by PG&E and Mercury Insurance, said Doug Heller, executive director of Consumer Watchdog, whose political action Alias DVD set ran the opposition campaign to Prop. 17.

"They had to resist an all-out attack by special interests," Heller said, "and they managed to go to the Arrested Development DVD set and blogs and editorial boards and As Time Goes By DVD set through the rubbish."

There'll be a lot more rubbish to pick through over the next five months.
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