No On 1 Campaign Launches First TV Ads

by: Adam Bink

Thu Sep 03, 2009 at 10:30

Good news from Maine- the No on 1 campaign has just released its first TV ads, which will run statewide. I'm told by folks at Dirigo Blue, a Maine progressive blog, along with Joe Sudbay and the campaign team that the attitude in Maine is very "live and let live". The haters will try and push the line that those support marriage equality are "enforcing their values on us." Good for the No On 1 campaign to try and take that message and make it their own first. We have to define the debate and emphasize that the haters are trying to tell LGBT people how to live, not the other way around. This ad, I think, helps accomplish that:

And here's the other ad, which illustrates a teenager with two moms testifying on behalf of marriage equality, asking that his family not be broken up.

You put in a lot of the money via AMERICABlog's fund to put these ads on air first, before the haters had their chance. So clap yourselves on the back!

Now let's help keep them on the air. I think this is critical, because in Maine, we're going to see tons of ads pressuring Snowe on health care crowding out the campaign. Plus, the later ads in the marriage campaign will be the ones on which voters are going to press the "mute" button when they hit their limit. So the earliest ads define the campaign, and that means we've got to push these ones far and wide.

We just added the No On 1 campaign to the OpenLeft/BlogPAC Better Democrats page. It's our second bite at the apple to get marriage equality and keep it. I just put in my $10 to kick it off. Can you help make these ads count first?