http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox..._country_s_most_deceptive_ballot_measure.html
"At first glance, Florida’s Amendment 1 looks sunny for solar power. If it passes on Tuesday with 60 percent of the vote, the measure would give Floridians a constitutional right to a solar panel. The bill’s title, “Rights of Electricity Consumers Regarding Solar Energy Choice,” sounds positive enough.
But Floridians can already own solar panels. Buried in the second sentence, if you bother to read past the right to a solar panel, you’ll find the real purpose of the measure: a provision that could end "net metering," which allows solar panel owners to sell excess power back to their utility on hot summer days. This change would vastly reduce the incentive to own or lease solar panels. A similar initiative in Nevada this winter “brought rooftop solar to a
dead stop” in the state.
Amendment 1 was written by a group funded by the state’s big utility companies. It’s a great example of the initiative-industrial complex, the smattering of corporations and consultants that have transformed the ballot initiative—engineered to bypass special interests
in the statehouse—into a way for special interests to bypass the statehouse."
