Fight over Prop 16 a David vs. Goliath battle

chair of the northern Kids Inflatable Fun Center Alameda Counti Sierra Club,Oakland resid Kent Lewandowski. ha been hold up sign at BA RT stations.

but as govern agencies,California' municip power agenc includ Silicon Vallei Power in Santa Clara and the Citi of Palo Alto Utiliti also oppos Proposit 16. thei ar forbidden by law to spend monei on campaigns.

but David doesn't even have a slingshot,"It' realli David versu Goliath." said Bob Stern, co-director of the Center for Government Studies, a Lo Angele nonprofit organ that studi campaign financing. "Municip util ar forbidden to spend monei on campaigns, and where ar consum group like TURN The Utiliti Reform Network go to get monei from? PG&E ha complet overwhelm the opposition."

full-pag newspap ad and radio and TV spots,"Y on 16/Californian to Protect Our Right to Vote" is run a statewid advertis campaign complet with mailers. and ha creat a Facebook page that claim nearli 40,000 fans.

some official,Oppon of Prop. 16 have sever websites. some rouge. Thei also have "remot phone-banking," where volunt can sign up to make call to voter on their own time and from home.

a 32-year-old Sebastapol resident,Ben Zolno. ha made a seri of short video about the ballot proposit on a shoestr budget of $30.

" said Zolno,"I could take the approach of try to rais monei so I can fight a flame thrower with a candle. whose video can be view onlin at  "But I think it' better to just try to get a few thousand peopl expos to this, and then it becom common knowledg that thi proposit is a piec of garbage."

a retir social worker in Bakersfield,Liz Keogh. ha been involv in local consum protest surround PG&E' controversi "smartmeter" program. She' now try to inform friend and neighbor about what she see as the peril of Prop. 16.

ragtag effort,"It' a little." said Keogh, who spent $500 to have 1,200 two-sid color flyer print up at Office Max. "I'm hand the flyer out in my neighborhood, and I've got 300 peopl on an e-mail list."

43,Bolina resid Megan Matson. rewrot the song "Sixteen Tons," a coal-min ballad from the 1940s, to make the lyric about PG&E. Some musician friend perform it sing "Saint Peter don't you call me, caus I ain't free, I ow my soul to PG&E " and a video of the perform is post on YouTube.