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Roger Hernandez Office/Joe Gardner Campaign

Assemblyman Roger Hernandez, left, is running for reelection against Joe Gardner, right, a retired member of the Santa Monica Police Department.

It’s the homestretch for candidates whose names appear on the Nov. 6 ballot, which means everyone is looking for an advantage. In some cases, that advantage can be as simple as an endorsement from a former opponent.

Take the 48th Assembly District race for example. Democrat Assemblyman Roger Hernandez is running for his second two-year term of office, but his district lines have been slightly re-drawn. He finished the June primary behind his Republican challenger, Joe Gardner, a retired member of the Santa Monica Police Department. Gardner picked up 46 percent of the vote, compared to Hernandez’s 43 percent — despite party registration inthe district favoring Democrats by 18 percentage points.

The primary had a third challenger, Mike Meza, who ran as an independent. Meza won 11 percent of the vote in the primary and has endorsed Gardner in the November runoff.

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The No on Prop 30 campaign launched its first TV ad Thursday — attacking Governor Jerry Brown's Prop 30 ads, which launched a day earlier, as "smoke and mirrors."

“We are shocked and dismayed by the Governor’s willingness to mislead voters,” said Joel Fox, President of the Small Business Action Committee, in a statement. “Prop 30 doesn’t provide any new funding for education and is really nothing more than a shell game that gives Sacramento politicians more money to spend on other programs."

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