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October 7, 2008
A roundup of new TV ads

With a month left until the election, multiple campaigns, from legislative candidates to state ballot measures, are hitting the airwaves.

Here's what's new on political TV.


The Proposition 10 campaign (the alternative energy bond funded by T. Boone Pickens) has a new TV spot (the second of the campaign).

It blames "politicians in Washington and Sacramento" for arguing while "we spend millions on foreign oil."

The Proposition 2 campaign (which would essentially eliminate cages for egg-laying hens) has a TV commercial as well, featuring a veterinarian talking about the benefits of the measure:

The campaign also has posted a line up of celebrities backing the measure online, including Hillary Duff and Alicia Silverstone. Watch that below:

Republican Assembly candidate Abram Wilson, who is running in AD 15 to replace GOP Assemblyman Guy Houston, has released a new TV ad. In it, he touts the backing of Democrats and Republicans alike:

His opponent, Democrat Joan Buchanan, has been airing this biographical spot:

In SD 19, the Senate race between Democratic former Assemblywoman Hannah-Beth Jackson and former Republican Assemblyman Tony Strickland, Jackson has an ad up trying to debunk Strickland's efforts to portray himself as an environmentalist.

Watch the ad below:

Here is one of Strickland's ads in which he touts renewable energy:


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