bait and switch tactics

• Deceiving us into war: using deception, inflammatory rhetoric, and bait-and-switch tactics, the Bush administration lured the American public into supporting a war that is becoming a global quagmire.

"Facing growing doubts at home about the wisdom of attacking Iraq, President Bush on Wednesday will launch a campaign to defend the U.S. invasion," be...

• The New American
• November 17, 2003

• Bait and Switch Tactics; If Florida Lawmakers Have Their Way, Pre-K Amendment Will Be Implemented Visa with State Funded Vouchers

In November of 2002, voters overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the state Constitution that read in part, "Every four-year-old child in Florida shall be offered a high quality pre-kindergarten learning opportunity by the state..and delivered according to professionally accepted standards." What voters apparently didn't know at the time was that the Republicans majority comprising the Education K-20 Committee automatically interpreted that to mean v-o-u-c-h-e-r-s. Leon County Circuit Judge Kevin Davey rendered that decision in 2002 when the legality of the state's "Opportunity Scholarship" voucher program was raised before the court. The decision, which has since been appealed by Gov. Bush, has yet to be settled by the District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee although the governor h...

• Westside Gazette
• July 29, 2009

• States warned against using 'bait-and-switch' tactics in denying refunds of unconstitutionally collected taxes.

The US Supreme Court in Newsweek, Inc. v. Florida Department of Revenue followed precedent when it held that the State of Florida could not refuse to refund taxes unconstitutionally collected because its administrative procedures were not followed. Newsweek claimed sales tax refunds after the particular tax was found to be unconstitutional but did not follow Florida's pre-deprivation remedies. Due process was not afforded Newsweek because of the interaction of those remedies with a refund statute which resulted in a bait-and-switch situation.

• The Tax Adviser
• Vol. 29 Nbr. 6, June 1998

• A.G. Sues Directbuy Over Sales Pitch

The West Virginia attorney general's Consumer Protection Division sued DirectBuy of Charleston-Huntington this week, alleging that the business used bait-and-switch tactics to trick consumers into joining the buying club. In a request for a temporary and a permanent injunction filed in Kanawha Circuit Court on Wednesday, the agency alleges that the company promises members access to low "insider" prices, and pressures them into buying three-year memberships for thousands of dollars.

• Charleston Gazette
• January 28, 2011

• Liberal Lies About National Healthcare, Part 5

According to a news story by Jackie Calmes: "In 1994, Democrats' dysfunction over fulfilling a new President's campaign promise contributed to the party's loss of its 40-year dominance of Congress." (What is it with all our black Presidents and these bait-and-switch tactics?) Instead of pursuing "mend it, don't end it" on welfare and no "middle-class tax hike" - as Clinton promised during the campaign - he raised taxes, signed ridiculous gun restrictions into law, enacted "midnight basketball" as the solution to urban crime, announced that he was putting gays in the military and let Hillary run riot over healthcare.

• Human Events
• October 19, 2009

• Verify Registrations

I know that it was just an oversight, but the Oct. 20 article regarding the arrest of Mark Jacoby omitted details of which readers should be aware. Young Political Majors, which Jacoby owns, is based in Florida and is hired by the Republican Party to register voters, often fraudulently as Republicans, in several states, including several counties in California using bait-and-switch tactics.

• Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
• October 26, 2008

• 11 AMCO Insurance Company v. Inspired Technologies, Inc., (8th Cir. 2011)

... trade practices using "bait and switch tactics" in breaching its agreement ...

• Federal Circuits

• Banks Bomb On Stress Tests for Minority Lending

On top of that, blacks and Latinos were more than one and a half times more likely than whites to be denied loans by the top banks receiving taxpayer bailout cash. And income wasn't a major consideration for the lenders who were pitching subprime loans - the prime determinants in deciding whom to target were race and the neighborhoods where they lived. A study conducted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development found that upper-income blacks were one and a half times as likely to have a subprime loan as persons that lived in low-income white neighborhoods. At times, subprime lending took on elements of loan racketeering, and it's a racket that hurt - and still hurts - tens of thousands of would-be black and Latino homeowners. The lenders' bait-and-switch tactics, deliberat...

• Boston Banner, The
• September 30, 2009

• Sb City Council Vote Delayed On Firefighters' Contract

SAN BERNARDINO - A City Council vote on concession agreements with firefighters was delayed Monday, mere days after union leaders accused the interim city manager of "bait and switch tactics. The disagreements stem from an informal deal reached earlier in the month when the San Bernardino City Professional Firefighters Union voted to give 10 percent wage and benefit concessions in order to help erase the city's $9 million deficit.

• The Sun (San Bernardino, CA)
• March 03, 2009

• Ucla Coach Denies Accusations Made by Usc Assistant

LOS ANGELES - UCLA Coach Rick Neuheisel on Monday denied accusations made a day earlier by USC assistant Ken Norton that the Bruins were using bait-and-switch tactics on football recruits. Norton, the Trojans' linebackers coach who was an All-American linebacker for UCLA, said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times on Sunday that the Bruins were trying to lure recruits by telling them he would join the UCLA staff if defensive coordinator DeWayne Walker were to take another job.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• December 30, 2008