Pension reform measure workers caught lying to get signatures

[Liberal_in_LA]

Adachi pension measure workers caught warning of "nighttime meters"

Opponents of Public Defender Jeff Adachi's pension reform ballot measure today threatened legal action after revealing an undercover video that shows four signature gatherers for Adachi's measure soliciting signatures while making misleading statements about the proposal -- including that it's needed to fend off nighttime parking meters.

"Jeff Adachi is breaking the law by using these unethical signature gatherers," said Nathan Ballard, a Democratic strategist working for public labor unions opposed to Adachi's measure. "Adachi's signatures were collected under false pretenses. His signature gatherers were running around telling flat-out lies in order to get signatures, and we have the video tapes to prove it."

One signature gatherer, who appears to be outside the Castro's Safeway store on Market Street, says the measure is about "nighttime parking," and that the city has "already started" to put in "nighttime meters."

"If you don't want nighttime parking meters all over the city, then you have to (sign this)," the man says on the hidden camera video shot by a member of the International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers Local 21, which is backing a rival pension reform proposal drawn up by Mayor Ed Lee with labor unions and others. You can watch the whole video here:

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=93123#ixzz1S24aKMoy

[gateley]

1. If there's ANY way to cheat, they'll jump on it. Despicable. nt

[Scuba]

2. Probably the same bunch of felons the Repukes in Wisconsin used...

...to collect recall signatures. The Government Accountability Board called the actions of the petitioners "rampant fraud".

[3waygeek]

3. Isn't that pretty much the way ballot measure petitions

are done? I lived in LA & Santa Barbara 20 years ago, and I remember similar BS arguments being used to get signatures.