I Googled "Do It Center." It states in bold print that it is the world's largest hardware store. This outsider is the one who drafted and is spending half a million dollars to pass Measure B in Thousand Oaks.
Then I looked at who is urging a no vote on Measure B. Do It Center and its supporters said only "government bureaucrats" are opposing the measure. But here's what I found: It's taxpayer groups, the Chamber of Commerce, Little League, PTAs, teachers, doctors, nurses, Los Robles Hospital, California Lutheran University, local businesses, private citizens, people and groups who usually never agree on anything. But they came together on this initiative. These people didn't look like "government bureaucrats" to me. They are my neighbors and your neighbors.
So I read this initiative, drafted by a multibillion-dollar corporation, and figured out it was so broad and poorly worded that it would have very harmful, perhaps unintended, consequences for our city. Oh, and then I found out they have done this elsewhere to keep out competition!
Your neighbors have taken the time to learn the truth and discovered the Do It Center is really not your friend. It is a huge outside corporation trying to keep competition out of Thousand Oaks and trying desperately to fool us into supporting their anti-competitive agenda, just as they have done in other cities, with alluring but totally false slogans.
Please vote -- and please vote no on Measure B.
-- Julie Prince, Thousand Oaks