The Ross Group

When someone engages in deceptive practices what do you call them? Magician and historian Ricky Jay calls them ‘con artists’ (he specializes in the art of the con and is an expert). Read on and you can decide for yourself if the Ross Group fits the description…
Twice this week we got a pamphlet in the mail from «The Los Angeles County Community Democrat» filled with supposed democrat voting recommendations… except for Prop 37. The official Dem party line is to vote «yes» on 37 — hey we have a right to know what’s lurking in our food, right? Well, for some weird reason this pamphlet recommends a ‘no’ vote on 37 and we didn’t get one, we got two pamphlets this week! Wondering WTF was going on, we did a little digging, on the net.
First, there’s zero on the web/​Google on «The Los Angeles County Community Democrat». Now that’s strange. If it’s a real organization, there’d be at least one page of references on Google, right? Well, we Googled their address and it turns out the pamphlets are from The Ross Group — same address, same suite (#415).
So what’s a group of older businessmen doing sending Democrats phony «democratic» voting recommendations (remember the pamphlets are saying to vote AGAINST the real democratic agenda)? Pamphlets are expensive. They cost a lot of money. Do you think grey haired Armen Ross paid for those pamphlets out of his own pocket? If you do then you must also believe in the tooth fairy… No. Armen Ross is being paid by someone else to send expensive pamphlets to L.A. democrats telling them to vote no on 37. Could it be Monsanto who’s paying him? We may never know.
What i do know however is that it’s certainly deceptive of Armen Ross and his Ross Group to send out pamphlets purporting to be the official democratic voting recommendations but in reality going AGAINST the official democratic position. If the pamphlets said «from The Ross Group» do you think voters would take it seriously? Of course not. Instead the pamphlets say they’re from a group that doesn’t even come up as a legit organization on the web. Now I call that «deceptive» and Ricky Jay has another word for people who deal like this (see above).
The Ross Group counts amongst its clients, a tofu restaurant and a Chevron snack mart. I don’t think those folks want their foods labeled… Anyway, thought you should know about what The Ross Group has been up to… we have a right to know what’s in our food AND who’s sending us phony democrat mailings.