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Peter Miguel Camejo of the Green Party is currently campaigning for what will be his last bid to become governor of California. Camejo has run for the governor’s office on previous occasions; most recently in the 2003 recall elections. In this year’s election race, Camejo is running on a platform that would guarantee universal health care for all Californians, enact living wages, and abolish California’s three strikes law. However, many voters are not aware of Camejo’s campaign or his platform, as a media black-out has largely ignored his campaign. Furthermore, Camejo was not allowed to participate alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Phil Angelides in their lone gubernatorial debate. In response, Camejo launched the first television and radio advertisements by a Green Party gubernatorial candidate last week. In the ads Camejo declares Phil Angelides’ campaign to be dead, and entices progressives to vote Green on November 7th in order to send a message to lawmakers. As we noted yesterday on Uprising, a recent statewide poll shows Democratic Party candidate Phil Angelides trailing behind Schwarzenegger by a double digit margin while only maintaining the support of 57% of Democrats.