Between the police union and business community, Prop A’s opponents are outspending its supporters by a nearly 9-to-1 margin.
The lion’s share of Protect SA’s $1.6 million was spent on a major San Antonio advertising firm, the PM Group. Online Federal Communications Commission records show the PM Group has bought ad time for the PAC with nearly every TV station in San Antonio.
“There’s still a lot of folks opposing this, and everything that they’re saying are exactly the talking points that are in these ads that have been playing. And it makes -- it went up in frequency very recently, and I think that’s probably the same time that these ads really started hitting,” Tomas said.
“Our campaign was funded through the support and contributions of our 2,370 officer members. The final budget was based on the development and implementation of marketing assets we deemed necessary to execute an effective campaign,” Diaz’s statement reads.
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