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New from No On 8 – the Hispanic cast members of Ugly Betty deliver a marriage equality message in Spanish.

Finally, an actual gay person appears in a Prop 8 ad. Tim Gunn: “I’ve never seen anything as unattractive as the content of Proposition 8. It’s simply wrong to take people’s rights away!” Nice, and no points off for getting the URL wrong.

It’s getting impossible to keep up with all the polling, but here’s the latest on Prop 8 from the Public Policy Institute. A majority of Californians still oppose a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, but the margin is narrowing so notably that the fate of Proposition 8 may hinge on the turnout for the presidential race. A new poll …

Via No On 8: Today, the NO on Prop 8 campaign released a tough new television ad featuring California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell, who voiced his strong opposition to Prop 8 and the lies about the public education system. “Prop 8 has nothing to do with schools or kids,” said Geoff Kors, NO on Prop 8 executive …

Ellen DeGeneres has purchased $100,000 of media time to air her No On 8 PSA. Via press release: NO on Prop 8 campaign, Equality for All, is pleased to announce today that Ellen DeGeneres has made a media buy to urge Californians to vote NO on Proposition 8. The effort was partially revealed Tuesday when Ellen released a special video …

Last week’s startling news that Proposition 8 appears poised for approval in California has brought an avalanche of donations to No On 8. After sounding the alarm last week about its $10 million fundraising deficit, Equality California, the lead organization for the No on 8 campaign, has raised more than $3 million within California since Oct. 6, including a $1 …

The California Teacher’s Union has topped the list of institutional donors to No On 8 with a staggering $1M gift. California’s largest teacher’s union has given another $1 million to defeat a Nov. 4 ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriage in the state. The contribution recorded Tuesday makes the California Teachers Association the largest institutional donor to the No …

Finally!

Some folks are becoming increasing shrill in their demand that Ellen DeGeneres step forward with huge donation to Prop 8. But to my mind, what she does every day on her show and in this PSA is immeasurably more valuable than a few more airings of the lame ads we’ve seen so far.

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Andy Towle picked up on this “absolutely fake and unofficial endorsement for the No on Prop 8 campaign cooked up by celebrity parodist David Gilmore at Pretty on the Outside.” That’s Robert Buckley from Lipstick Jungle and Hugh Jackman. Donate to No On 8 here.

FINALLY! This is the sort of ad we’ve been asking for. Donate to No On 8 here.