Gov. Gavin Newsom Calls on Production Companies To Leave Oklahoma In Campaign Ad

California Gov. Gavin Newsom known as on video manufacturing firms to “stroll the stroll” with their values and transfer out of Oklahoma in {a magazine} marketing campaign commercial.  

Newsom’s reelection marketing campaign bought the full-page advert in Selection journal.    

“Over the previous a number of years, the legislatures of states like Georgia and Oklahoma have waged a merciless assault on important rights,” the advert reads. “Now, within the wake of the Supreme Courtroom’s abhorrent choice overturning Roe v. Wade, those self same states are shortly transferring to strip reproductive freedom.  

“Right this moment greater than ever, you could have a accountability to take inventory of your values-and these of your employees-when doing enterprise in these states.”  

Newsom additionally introduced his help for extending California’s annual $330 million tax incentive program for movie and tv initiatives via 2030.  

Film manufacturing is on the rise in Oklahoma after lawmakers handed a $30 million annual incentive program for in-state initiatives.  

Matt Payne, the co-founder and co-CEO of Prairie Surf Media in downtown Oklahoma Metropolis, mentioned state politics don’t issue into their operation in Oklahoma.  

“Oklahoma has lots to supply the film business,” Payne advised Information 9 in a telephone interview. “We’re conscious of what is occurring politically right here but it surely would not actually change how we take into consideration our enterprise.”  

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Carly Atchison, communications director for Gov. Kevin Stitt, dismissed Newsom’s commercial in a press release to Information 9:  

“As an alternative of attacking robust conservative management in purple states like Oklahoma, maybe Gavin Newsom ought to give attention to addressing his state’s earnings tax, which is the very best within the nation, out-of-control vitality prices, countless violent crime, individuals capturing up medication within the streets, power homelessness, excessive price of dwelling, gridlock site visitors, and rolling blackouts. If he wants tips about learn how to truly run a state, he ought to give Governor Stitt a name.”