Ro Khanna Fights Back against "Guilt by Association" Campaign by associating with wrong folks

And all that campaigning seems to have made how much difference?

Khanna has refused to take any money from political action committees for his campaign, but he hasn’t denounced the help he’s received from the independent expenditure group, Californians for Innovation, even though it’s a super PAC formed strictly to collect more money than would otherwise be allowed in a congressional campaign and spend it to get Khanna elected. 

And more than half the $480,000 taken in by Californians for Innovation so far comes from John Arnold, a former Enron energy trader and hedge fund manager who is slammed, though not by name, in Honda’s TV spot as a donor who “even helped cut off electricity to California.” 

The charge comes from 2005 reports that Enron created artificial power shortages in California, helping to trigger the state’s energy crisis in 2000 and 2001 in an effort to raise the price of electricity. 

Khanna and his backers complain that Honda’s charges are little more than an attempt to create “guilt by association,” airing night after night as many voters are deciding whom to support in a race that many see as a tossup.

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