The ballot arguments in favor of Proposition 21 — the extreme rent control measure on November’s statewide ballot — contain “false and misleading statements,” according to a lawsuit filed this week. The suit, filed Thursday in Sacramento Superior Court, seeks to strike and revise three statements made by the Yes on 21 campaign. The plaintiff is Los Angeles owner Malcolm Bennett; the defendants are Secretary of State Alex Padilla and the signers of the ballot and rebuttal arguments. The suit notes that state law expressly requires that statements made in such arguments not be false or misleading. The Yes on… Read More