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The race: Governor. Whose ad?: Democratic candidate John K. Van de Kamp. The attorney general Wednesday launched a 30-second ad using consumer advocate Ralph Nader to criticize Van de Kamp's primary opponent, former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein. The commercial, made up of snippets of Nader's Tuesday press conference in Washington, is Van de Kamp's attempt to remind voters--particularly the party's liberal voters--that he has been generally more liberal than Feinstein.

The race: Governor. Whose ad?: Democratic candidate John K. Van de Kamp. The attorney general Wednesday launched a 30-second ad using consumer advocate Ralph Nader to criticize Van de Kamp's primary opponent, former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein. The commercial, made up of snippets of Nader's Tuesday press conference in Washington, is Van de Kamp's attempt to remind voters--particularly the party's liberal voters--that he has been generally more liberal than Feinstein.