Largest online community created in California Political History

SACRAMENTO – In a final request to the enormous Web-based community that's skyrocketed around opposition to the discriminatory Proposition 8, the NO on 8 campaign today launched a 30-second video and called on supporters to share it widely with friends and family online.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 2, 2008

Contact: Ali Bay
Phone: 916.284.9187

Julia Spiess
Phone: 916.601.8282

NO on Proposition 8 Asks Grassroots Supporters to Move Video Through Groundbreaking Online Community
Largest online community created in California Political History

SACRAMENTO – In a final request to the enormous Web-based community that's skyrocketed around opposition to the discriminatory Proposition 8, the NO on 8 campaign today launched a 30-second video and called on supporters to share it widely with friends and family online.

The video, called "Parents,” accurately portrays the conversations that have encircled this unfair initiative from the beginning. Says one mother: "I don't want my kids to grow up with discrimination. Or thinking it's okay to take away peoples' rights."

The online community response to defeating Proposition 8 has created the largest grassroots movement in California political history. Consider these facts:

• The NO on 8 Facebook page now has more than 129,000 supporters over the course of less than a month when it was launched.
• The NO on 8 online community has contacted more than 100,000 friends and family.
• There have been more than three million views of NO on 8 videos online, with over one million from our YouTube channel.
• Yesterday, YouTube ranked the NO on 8 channel as 41st in viewer hits, even eclipsing the Obama channel, which was ranked 47th.
• In terms of online financial support, more than 72 percent of the donations to NO on 8 have come from California.
• More than 60 percent of those 96,000-plus online contributions have been $100 or less.

In an email accompanying the video to supporters, Geoff Kors of the NO on 8 Executive Committee wrote: "This 30 second video speaks about what Prop 8 is really about: what kind of world we want each person and our children to live in -- one that is free from discrimination and intolerance. Everyone you know needs to see this video."

The text of the video follows:

AD SCRIPT: PARENTS

VISUAL

Shot of mother with baby, NO on 8

Cut to mother, NO on 8

Cut to family in playground, NO on 8

Cut to close-up of mother, NO on 8

Cut to close-up of first mother with baby, NO on 8

Cut to close-up of third mother, NO on 8

Cut to father of family in playground, NO on 8, disclaimer

Cut to first mother with baby, NO on 8, disclaimer

AUDIO

First mother: “I don’t want my kids to grow up with discrimination. Or thinking it’s okay to take away people’s rights.”

Second mother: “I want our kids to know that discrimination is wrong. And that Prop 8 is wrong.”

Father: “I want our kids to know that we don’t pass laws that treat people differently.”

Third mother: “I want them to know that we vote against intolerance. Because California is better than that.”

First mother: “and that we never, ever discriminate.”

Third mother: “That’s why we’re voting NO on Prop 8.”

Father: “NO on 8.”

First mother: “NO on 8.”