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It’s not that former eBay chief Meg Whitman, who wants to be governor-slash-savior of California, supported Prop 8 that so upsets the Courage Campaign. Or that she’s just a horrible person. It’s that if she’s elected, she’s going to close the state’s enormous budget shortfall by eliminating funding public services and education while cutting the wealthy some tax slack. Well, this is a new tactic.
The Courage Campaign is mostly known for safeguarding secret poll data and blaming other groups for the failure of the No On 8 campaign. Oh, and focusing on gay rights.
But now it’s not even using The Gay Agenda to try to sway voters against Whitman. Instead, Rick Jacobs & Co. hope its new “Meg’s California” ad — not yet on TV — will convince voters to choose an alternative to the anti-gay marriage candidate.
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Because gay marriage isn’t the only issue on the minds of California voters. Even the gay ones! Fiscal responsibility. Job creation. Health care. Those things matter very, very much right now, and the Courage Campaign is wise to latch on to those issues to achieve its ultimate goal: keeping an enemy out of office. At any cost.
“All we’re doing is telling people what the Republican Party is telling people,” says Jacobs. “We’re just making sure they hear it.”
And threatening the idea that the beaches, zoos, public libraries, and even the damn DMV will close if Whitman takes office? Even with the ad’s mellow feel, it’s a hint toward the type of activist group battle ad we’ve been demanding to see. More of this please, but with the damning music of Shutter Island.
ggreen
What a great ad, I hope all California votes see it. As usual another hackney immature observation by Queerty, David stick to the E channel.
Bill
As a citizen of the state of California, I understand that it is IMPERATIVE that Meg Whitman be DEFEATED.
She, however, is prepared to spend over 100 million dollars to buy herself the governorship. I guess ‘buy it now’ carried over from her eBay years…
I sincerely hope that LGTB citizens in the state of California will do what they can to be sure that this women is DEFEATED.
She is not the direction the state or the country needs to be going in.
She’s bad for the state & bad for its citizens.
SFPol
Why are you smacking on Courage Campaign about Prop. 8?
They were one of the good, progressive, diverse, smart, energized, outsider groups that tried to save the campaign from the cold, dead hands of the wealthy, conservative, agay lawyers and lobbyists who ran it. Kudos to ’em.
The tragedy of Prop 8 is that we could have and should have won it and fumbled it away…don’t blame straights or Obama or Mormons or whomever, blame a wildly-underperforming campaign team.
Jaroslaw
G Green – in case you didn’t know, all the Scandinavian countries and Holland spend a lot more than we do on social services and guess what? They have almost no crime.
This is not to suggest that people get a free ride, but rather we help the less fortunate. Why on earth do the wealthy need a tax break when 5% of the people have 95% of the money now in the USA?
ggreen
@Jaroslaw: Totally agree, that 5% should pay 95 percent of ALL taxes.
People making 250K or more per year should pay 35%-50% tax rates and not qualify for tax breaks on Million dollar homes or credit card interest or mortgage interest or any other tax breaks for the rich.
While were at it double tax the Catholic Church and those filthy Mormon Cultists too.
dontblamemeivotedforhillary
Meg Whitman is California’s Worst Nightmare!
Brown Gay Al
As someone who was born and has lived through the welfare state in Europe it always amuses me when naive liberals think Europe is some sort of heaven. gay rights or not I will always prefer America to a Europe falling to Sharia