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  • Backers plan ad blitz for new oil driller tax -Prop 87 sides each have more than $26 million...

    08/07/2006 12:57:45 PM PDT · by calcowgirl · 24 replies · 486+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | August 7, 2006 | John Wildermuth
    Backers of a measure that would hit energy companies drilling in California with $4 billion in new taxes planned to start running a hard-hitting TV ad across the state today urging voters to "make oil companies pay.'' There's nothing subtle about the new ad, said Paul Begala, a consultant for Proposition 87. "We're not shy; our most important goal is to get California off its dependence on oil,'' said Begala, a former Clinton White House aide and CNN television commentator. "If you want support, you have to build support.'' Prop. 87 would tax companies for oil pumped in California, based...