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Ad watch: 19th Senate District
A video grab from a political advertisement shows Hannah-Beth Jackson on the Ventura Pier.
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First in an occasional series in which the Star analyzes claims made in political commercials and mailers during the 2008 campaign.
Ad: Hannah-Beth Jackson television commercial.
Claim: "A former prosecutor who put violent criminals behind bars and founded a shelter to protect battered women."
Facts: Jackson was hired as a clerk in the Santa Barbara County District Attorney's Office in 1975 and became a deputy district attorney in 1976. Her work included prosecution of those accused of rape and sexual assaults. She worked with others to establish the Violence in the Family Project, which opened a women's shelter that continues to exist today under a different name. She left the DA's office and went into private law practice in 1977, first in Los Angeles and later in Ventura.
Claim: "A college professor dedicated to affordable and available college education."
Facts: After serving six years in the Assembly, Jackson was hired by UC Santa Barbara in 2005 as its "public policymaker in residence." During the 2005-06 and 2006-07 academic years, she taught political science classes and lectured in other classes having to do with environmental policy, women's studies and sociology. She left the university last fall to run for Senate.
While in the Assembly, she voted for three budgets that froze university tuition and three that increased it. She also voted for a 2000 law that guaranteed Cal Grants to all California students who met income-eligibility and grade-point-average requirements.
Claim: "A former legislator who worked with both Democrats and Republicans to write over 60 laws that strengthen communities."
Facts: As a member of the Assembly from 1999 to 2004, Jackson wrote 61 bills that were signed into law by Govs. Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger. A number of those bills were co-written by Republican lawmakers. During her tenure, Jackson, a Democrat, was always a member of the majority party, a distinct advantage in getting bills through the Legislature.
— Staff writer Timm Herdt
Posted by carexpritch on August 21, 2008 at 5:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)
so, what is the conclusion?
Jackson obviously is truthful in these ads.
The Ad-Watch analysis for Strickland and his friends will be quite entertaining.
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