Same sex marriage organization to air anti-Meg Whitman, Steve Cooley commercials

Dan82 · Sep 22, 2010

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=72855&tsp=1

The Chronicle has learned that Equality California, the LGBT rights organization that has been at the vanguard of the fight to secure same sex marriage in California, will launch commercials next week at two top-o-the-ticket Republicans who said they would defend Proposition 8 in court: guv candidate Meg Whitman and AG hopeful Steve Cooley.

The two ads will start airng Monday in the state's largest media markets, mostly on the cable news networks. EQCA executive director Geoff Kors wouldn't say how much they're shelling out for the ads. Equality California's PAC has endorsed Dems Jerry Brown for guv and SF DA Kamala Harris for Attorney General.

The 30-second ads are pretty much exact duplicates except for the words "Steve Cooley" and "Meg Whitman." They say that in a time of high unemployment and scare dollars in California, Cooley/Whitman promised "to spend what could be millions of your and my tax dollars in a lawsuit that could take away the rights of same sex couples -- appeasing anti-gay extremists...

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Same sex marriage organization to air anti-Meg Whitman, Steve Cooley commercials

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