Via Karen Ocamb:
Meanwhile, the statewide LGBT lobbying group Equality California has been warning that if Prop 8 supporter Meg Whitman is elected governor, she will order the new Attorney General to try to intervene in the federal Prop 8 case, now before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Additionally, while current AG Jerry Brown believes Prop 8 is unconstitutional and has refused to defend it in court, the man seeking to replace him as Attorney General, moderate Republican Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley, says he will uphold the laws of California, which includes defending Prop 8.Here's the Whitman ad:
With the election now about six weeks away, EQCA is shining the spotlight more brightly on this possibility. On Wednesday, EQCA released two TV ads that will begin airing on Monday, Sept. 27, on the CNN, FOX and MSNBC affiliates in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Diego and Palm Springs metropolitan areas. The ads were produced by Mark Armour Media with a voice over by LGBT activist Ben Patrick Johnson.
EQCA Executive Director Geoff Kors says:“Meg Whitman and Steve Cooley have stated that they would spend California’s limited tax dollars in litigation to overturn the Federal District Court’s ruling that Prop. 8 is unconstitutional. It is unconscionable that they would use state resources to take away the rights of Californians at a time when our state is cutting vital services and laying off teachers. We are calling on Californians to urge Whitman and Cooley to change their position and to pledge not to waste our state’s precious resources to perpetuate inequality.”
And, the Cooley ad:
