Reply #8: It never stood a chance from day one.

[depakid]

When one side has all the money and monopolizes the airwaves- repeating lies and distortions ad nauseum- and the other side gets almost NO time on TV or radio- of course people are going to get conned.

Had there been equal time- had the fairness doctrine been applied, the measure would have passed by a comfortable margin. And tweaking could and would have come down the road- the way it always has- and just the way it was done with OHP (the Oregon Health Plan).

Instead, kids and families will continue to suffer- and the far right and their sycophants in the corporate media will make the whole deal out to be something completely different than it was.