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<span class="st" style=" line-height: 1.4; word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="f" style=" color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">Oct 30, 1994 -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>On Nov. 8, Californians will decide an issue of critical importance to the health of each of us:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style=" font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;">Proposition 188</em>. This is the so-called<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style=" font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;">California</em> ...</font></span></div>

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<span class="st" style=" line-height: 1.4; word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="f" style=" color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">Oct 28, 1994 -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>But Philip Morris is sponsoring a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style=" font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;">California</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>state ballot initiative,<em style=" font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;">Proposition 188</em>, that is a wolf in sheep's clothing on this issue.</font></span></div>

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<table width="560" background="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/images/searchpages/green.gif;jsessionid=C69ADD83D5A4DBA90CEBA3F5A6EB80A9.tobacco03"><tbody><tr><td><span class="helpHeading" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(55, 78, 132);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Proposition 188</font></span></td><td><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></td></tr></tbody></table>

 </font></td></tr><tr><td><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Proposition 188 was the industry attempt to counter the growing number of local clean air ordinances throughout California. Promoted by the industry as a tobacco control law, Prop 188 was an alternative to the smoke-free workplace bill, AB 13, that would ensure uniform statewide regulation of smoking in public places. This proposition would have effectively preempted existing local laws and restrictions. Proposition 188 was defeated in 1994 by a 71% "No" vote.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

The documents below provide an overview of the tobacco industry's campaign planning and motivation for Prop 188 as well as strategies to accomodate smokers within the constraints of AB 13 when it passed into law in 1995.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></td></tr><tr><td>

<table width="560" cellpadding="5" background="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/images/searchpages/lightgreen.gif;jsessionid=C69ADD83D5A4DBA90CEBA3F5A6EB80A9.tobacco03"><tbody><tr><td align="left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="helpHeading" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(55, 78, 132);"><a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/ajj46e00/pdf;jsessionid=C69ADD83D5A4DBA90CEBA3F5A6EB80A9.tobacco03" style=" color: rgb(55, 78, 132);">Written Statement of Philip Morris, Inc., before the Assembly Labor Committee Re: AB13<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>(1993)</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

A statement made by Joe Lang on behalf of Philip Morris before the Assembly Labor Committee in opposition to AB 13.

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A series of e-mail exchanges regarding California's clean indoor air programs, ordinances AB13 and AB996, and the possible venues for counter attacks by the industry within the legislative, initiative, regulatory, and legal arenas. The author states, "the economic arguments which only a year ago prevented the ban in Los Angeles and San Francisco are losing the ability to persuade as more and more communities, small and large, have banned smoking without apparent economic effect."<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

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<table width="560" cellpadding="5" background="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/images/searchpages/lightgreen.gif;jsessionid=C69ADD83D5A4DBA90CEBA3F5A6EB80A9.tobacco03"><tbody><tr><td align="left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="helpHeading" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(55, 78, 132);"><a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/yrm44e00/pdf;jsessionid=C69ADD83D5A4DBA90CEBA3F5A6EB80A9.tobacco03" style=" color: rgb(55, 78, 132);">Philip Morris: California Statewide, November 10, 1993<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>(1993)</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

This is an early-planning survey by an industry PR firm for the Prop 188 campaign.

<a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/yrm44e00;jsessionid=C69ADD83D5A4DBA90CEBA3F5A6EB80A9.tobacco03" style=" color: rgb(55, 78, 132);">http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/yrm44e00</a></font></td></tr></tbody></table>

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<table width="560" cellpadding="5" background="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/images/searchpages/lightgreen.gif;jsessionid=C69ADD83D5A4DBA90CEBA3F5A6EB80A9.tobacco03"><tbody><tr><td align="left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="helpHeading" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(55, 78, 132);"><a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/qlo44e00/pdf;jsessionid=C69ADD83D5A4DBA90CEBA3F5A6EB80A9.tobacco03" style=" color: rgb(55, 78, 132);">California Initiative</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1994)</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

A memo from Ellen Merlo to Geoff Bible outlining Philip Morris's plan to achieve state-wide preemption in California and seek investigations of "political abuses" of Prop 99. This memo also outlines the policies that ultimately lead to Prop 188.

<a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/qlo44e00;jsessionid=C69ADD83D5A4DBA90CEBA3F5A6EB80A9.tobacco03" style=" color: rgb(55, 78, 132);">http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/qlo44e00</a></font></td></tr></tbody></table>

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Information about the California Campaign, in particular the amount of money available for Prop 188. The October 17th assessment was $5.7 million, which was allocated to the different companies in proportion to market-share.

<a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/jer85f00;jsessionid=C69ADD83D5A4DBA90CEBA3F5A6EB80A9.tobacco03" style=" color: rgb(55, 78, 132);">http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/jer85f00</a></font></td></tr></tbody></table>

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This is an analysis of the political situation surrounding Prop 188 shortly before the election, outlining the strengths and weaknesses of the different positions. The Wellness Foundation campaign and the influence of C. Everett Koop is of major concern.

<a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/oer85f00;jsessionid=C69ADD83D5A4DBA90CEBA3F5A6EB80A9.tobacco03" style=" color: rgb(55, 78, 132);">http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/oer85f00</a></font></td></tr></tbody></table>

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<table width="560" cellpadding="5" background="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/images/searchpages/lightgreen.gif;jsessionid=C69ADD83D5A4DBA90CEBA3F5A6EB80A9.tobacco03"><tbody><tr><td align="left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="helpHeading" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(55, 78, 132);"><a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/fer85f00/pdf;jsessionid=C69ADD83D5A4DBA90CEBA3F5A6EB80A9.tobacco03" style=" color: rgb(55, 78, 132);">California Proposition 188 Ballot Issue Update<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>(1994)</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

Memo warning that awareness of the initiative's sponsor, the tobacco industry, as well as the infusion of Prop 99 and Wellness Foundation funded ads will translate into voter opposition at the polls.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

<a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/fer85f00;jsessionid=C69ADD83D5A4DBA90CEBA3F5A6EB80A9.tobacco03" style=" color: rgb(55, 78, 132);">http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/fer85f00</a></font></td></tr></tbody></table>

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Includes a proposal by the political consulting agency, the Dolphin Group, Inc., to head three distinct programs for Philip Morris: the Restaurant Accomodation Program which would educate California's hospitality industry in ways to accomodate smokers within the boundaries of AB-13; creation of a state-wide California Tavern Association which would safeguard bars and taverns against the threat of a total smoking ban; and the Point of Sale Protection program.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

<a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/xeq55e00;jsessionid=C69ADD83D5A4DBA90CEBA3F5A6EB80A9.tobacco03" style=" color: rgb(55, 78, 132);">http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/xeq55e00</a></font></td></tr></tbody></table>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> ===</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Today’s body politic has no shortage of rhetorical bile, but no campaign attack ad comes close to matching 1988’s race-baiting <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910073130/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/04/opinion/george-bush-and-willie-horton.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 117, 178); background: transparent;">Willie Horton commercial</a></span> for sheer visceral partisanship.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Horton was a black murder convict who raped a woman and stabbed her male companion while on a weekend furlough from a Massachusetts prison. The ad — which showed a photo of Horton, with the words “raping” and “stabbing” flashing behind him – blamed former Massachusetts Governor and then-presidential candidate Michael Dukakis for Horton’s release. It is generally thought of as a low-water mark in American politics—stoking racial stereotypes in a Machiavellian push for victory at any cost. But it worked. Dukakis never recovered from the attack and George H.W. Bush went on to win the presidency.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rather than facing censure, the political consulting outfit behind the Horton ad, the <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910073130/http://web.archive.org/web/20050901194245/http://dolphingroup.org/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 117, 178); background: transparent;">Dolphin Group</a></span>, has thrived ever since. Based in Los Angeles with an office in Sacramento, Dolphin was founded in 1974 by political consultant <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910073130/http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bill_Roberts" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 117, 178); background: transparent;">Bill Roberts</a></span>, who helped <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910073130/http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ronald_Reagan" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 117, 178); background: transparent;">Ronald Reagan</a></span> win his campaign for California Governor in 1966. No fan of modesty, Roberts for years took credit on Dolphin’s website for “transforming popular movie star Ronald Reagan into one of the most well known political figures in U.S. history.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I think I ought to have the right to lie to you if I think it will help me win,” Roberts told the<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Los Angeles Times</em> in 1982. He died six years later, just months before the Willie Horton ad was released.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, more than two decades later, the Dolphin Group, sans Roberts, but with his political philosophy fully intact, is working on behalf of the Yes on Proposition 32 campaign in California. According to the most recent filing statements published on the California Secretary of State’s website, Dolphin has received nearly $25,000 in consulting fees and expense reimbursements from the Yes on 32 effort. Dolphin Senior Vice President Elizabeth Hansell is personally involved in the Yes on 32 effort, taking part in at least one pro-Prop. 32 community forum in Kern County, and is referred to in campaign literature as Stop the Special Interest Money’s “<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910073130/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:r1y-3zu7wfsJ:stopspecialinterestmoney.org/downloads/At_A_Glance.pdf?c%3D10f5i069yy6xc6n+Liz+Hansell+prop+32&hl=en&gl=us" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 117, 178); background: transparent;">Coalitions Director</a></span>.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prop. 32’s cynical appropriation of Occupy Wall Street-style anti-corporate rhetoric, and the language of campaign finance reform, fits what has become Dolphin’s signature in recent years – the “Trojan Horse” political campaign. The firm has upped the cynicism of its Willie Horton ad by specializing in taking the most draconian big business-backed measures and draping them in the language of good government reform. (Requests for comments for this article have not been answered by the Dolphin Group.)</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the firm’s most disingenuous political efforts in the state was the campaign strategy it developed on behalf of California’s 1994 ballot initiative, <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910073130/http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0wd0s43g#page-25" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 117, 178); background: transparent;">Proposition 188</a></span>. Funded by the tobacco industry, Prop. 188 would have eliminated more than 300 local anti-smoking ordinances across California, gutted new legislation to ban indoor smoking in workplaces, and replaced strict state protections against selling tobacco to minors with a toothless, loophole-filled ordinance.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So how do you sell something like that to a voting public highly supportive of anti-smoking legislation?</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bring in the Dolphin Group.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since there was virtually no chance of <b>Prop. 188 </b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910073130/http://articles.latimes.com/1994-10-22/news/mn-53282_1_tobacco-industry" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 117, 178); background: transparent;">winning on its merits</a></span>, Dolphin simply flipped the switch, billing the measure as an <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">anti-tobacco </em>reform effort and a worthy heir to the wave of anti-smoking legislation (<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910073130/http://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/dosh_publications/smoking.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 117, 178); background: transparent;">Assembly Bill 13</a></span> and the <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910073130/http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/Pages/STAKEProgram.aspx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 117, 178); background: transparent;">STAKE Act</a></span>, to name two) that the California state legislature had been passing. Dolphin set up an Astroturf anti-smoking group called Californians for Statewide Smoking Restrictions to front the subterfuge. CASSR ran radio spots featuring the voice of a woman claiming to be a school vice principal, telling voters that Prop. 188 is the “best way to keep cigarettes away from kids.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Initially, the ruse worked. According to an October, 1994 poll taken by the <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Los Angeles Times</em>, Prop. 188 was ahead among likely voters only weeks before election day. California public health officials were appalled.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’m hard-pressed to see how 188 is a stronger approach to this very difficult problem,” then-California Health Director S. Kimberly Belshe told the <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Los Angeles Times</em>. Former California Assemblyman Terry B. Friedman described Dolphin’s attack plan as “misleading at best and fraudulent at worst.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eventually, however, a coalition of anti-smoking advocates filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission, which subsequently forced CASSR to add the tagline “A Committee of California Hotels, Restaurants, Philip Morris Inc. and other tobacco companies” next to its name on all advertising. Once the connection between CASSR and Big Tobacco was spelled out, voters wised up and Prop. 188 wound up losing by a nearly 70 to 30 percent margin.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dolphin’s Trojan Horse strategy, however, endured.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1999, Dolphin was back at it again, speaking for yet another Astroturf group, <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910073130/http://www.flyfisherman.com/2012/02/15/striped-bass-proposal-rejected-more-litigation-promised/#axzz27bDcCCYD" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 117, 178); background: transparent;">Coalition for a Sustainable Delta</a></span> (CSD) as a front for Beverly Hills agribusiness magnate Stewart Resnick’s interests in a looming water controversy in the Sacramento River Delta.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the late 1990s, California Department of Fish and Game officials noticed the stocks of native salmon and endangered smelt were declining precipitously in the Delta, thanks to a receding fresh water supply. Water pumping restrictions to California’s farms were put into motion.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Delta is a major source of water for Resnick’s farming interests, however, and he wasn’t about to have his virtually unlimited cheap water source potentially restricted. In response to proposed pumping caps, Dolphin-backed CSD successfully sued to halt the caps, claiming the plunge in native fish stocks was really caused by non-native “stressors,” such as the striped bass. The bass CSD claimed, ate the eggs of salmon and endangered Delta smelt. Eight years later the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service debunked this fish tale and <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910073130/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204731804574384731898375624.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 117, 178); background: transparent;">imposed water pumping restrictions</a></span> to protect the smelt.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One would think that actively fighting California environmental officials would have kept Dolphin associates busy, but in 2000 they helped start another fake grassroots organization called Santa Monicans for a Living Wage — which spent its time undermining attempts to impose living wage regulations. The coalition fronted a local ballot initiative, Measure KK, which would have stopped efforts to impose a minimum wage of $10.69 an hour on Santa Monica’s wildly lucrative coastal luxury hotels, restaurants and boutiques. The proposal would have covered approximately 3,000 employees.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Measure KK would have also prevented the Santa Monica City Council from ever instituting a living wage on a private business in the city. It failed by a 78 to 22 percent margin.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two years later, the local hotel industry put Measure JJ on the Santa Monica ballot, as a public referendum on the city’s living wage law – with the goal of repealing it. Dolphin represented yet another Astroturf group, Fighting Against Irresponsible Regulation (FAIR). Without offering any evidence, the group claimed to have an army of bellboys, waiters and housekeepers working its phone banks against the initiative.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Measure JJ went down in defeat.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2006, the hotel industry hired the Dolphin Group to run a “scorched earth” campaign against Santa Monica city councilman Kevin McKeown’s run for reelection, ostensibly for his support of the living wage initiative in the early aughts. Right off the bat, Dolphin created yet another faux grassroots organization called “Santa Monicans for Sensible Priorities” to attack McKeown. They took out TV ads—unheard of in Santa Monica–accusing McKeown, among other things, of importing mass populations of homeless people to the city’s beaches.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It was far and away the most negative campaign in the history of Santa Monica,” remembers McKeown.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McKeown won the election, thanks to a Steve Lopez column in the <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Los Angeles Times</em>, debunking Dolphin’s disingenuous campaign tactics.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“They will distort the electoral process on behalf of their clients without any care for voter trust,” McKeown says, “or for maintaining voter faith in the democratic process. As long as they win.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Like the pro-tobacco and anti-environmental and anti-living wage crusades before it, Prop. 32 bears the unmistakable DNA of a Dolphin campaign. If you can’t win on straight merit, appropriate the other side’s arguments and use them to mask your own.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Proposition 32 is no different than the California “paycheck protection” efforts that preceded it in 1998 and 2005—and failed. The only difference this time around is Dolphin’s Occupy-inspired, anti-corporate packaging.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><img align="left" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910073130im/http://www.laane.org/frying-pan/files/2012/08/tag_green.png" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Tags:</strong><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910073130/http://fryingpannews.org/tag/bill-roberts/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 117, 178); background: transparent;">Bill Roberts</a> • <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910073130/http://fryingpannews.org/tag/proposition-32/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 117, 178); background: transparent;">Proposition 32</a> • <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910073130/http://fryingpannews.org/tag/the-dolphin-group/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 117, 178); background: transparent;">The Dolphin Group</a> • <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910073130/http://fryingpannews.org/tag/willie-horton-ad/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 117, 178); background: transparent;">Willie Horton Ad</a></em></font></p><footer style="margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 10px 0px 30px; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 525px; line-height: 16px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="bio" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Matthew Fleischer is an award-winning investigative journalist, a former LA Weekly staff writer, and an editor at FishbowlLA.</font></div></footer>