The pro-rail group behind the anti-Cayetano website BeNiceBen.com are spending money to get the message out.

That’s an ad promoting the petition above. I snapped it from my personal Facebook newsfeed. At first blush, I thought it was a pro-Cayetano because his face is the only one you see. But look closer and it’s obvious the ad was paid for by the Pacific Resource Partnership or a like-minded group.

The mudslinging is just getting started. Three months to the primary.

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