With a new crop of state lawmakers being sworn in later today, the state council of one of California's biggest unions has launched an ad campaign featuring President-elect Barack Obama and urged new revenues to balance the state budget.
With clips of Obama's election night acceptance speech in the background, the screen in the TV ad flashes with the words "small change won't fill a massive deficit."
California faces an estimated $27.8 billion budget deficit over the next year and a half.
"To our new legislators, we offer our congratulations," said Courtni Pugh, executive director of the SEIU California State Council in a statement.
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