Municipalizing the electric grid lost on the ballot.
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@lightspill What really galls me is that the power company spent like $3M to plaster every surface in the county with political signs scaring people to vote against the proposition, and it worked. The county couldn’t afford that kind of spend. And that was $3M of our own ratepayer money! Gah.
@tilton@fursuits.online Here the power company did that and the city council split down the middle with the mayor making the deciding vote to make a resolution against it and tried to challenge it to keep it off the ballot in court. Which just pissed me off at the city council. Along with their "Well, there are too many unknowns" after they refused to do the study to answer them.
But the proposition limiting utility political spending passed, so wherever it is, the next attempt is more likely to win.
All the arguments I heard against it were just nonspecific FUD "It's not the right next step." "But we already have the rooftop solar program."