At the Rebooting Democracy conference a few weeks ago, signature gathering genius extraordinaire Kevin Looper—of Our Oregon—led a workshop on the conservative initiatives that will likely be on the ballot in 2008 (complete with a fun Power Point presentation with fun facts about arch-conservatives Kevin Mannix, Loren Parks, and Bill Sizemore).

After Looper told his scary stories about the big bad measures coming down the pike, the lights dimmed and we checked out a handful of films spoofing conservative political ads, most targeted at Sizemore’s initiatives. If conservatives were funnier—or more transparent about their motives—this is the sort of stuff that they’d put on TV to push their agenda.

They deserve a much wider audience. The first one’s about a measure that would push English immersion for kids who speak something else (i.e., it targets immigrants). (Full disclosure: I helped with this one, directed and produced by Travis Huntington and co-written, shot and edited by Jordan Karr-Morse.)

This one—another from Huntington and Karr-Morse—takes aim at a measure we’ve seen the likes of before—it’d bar the “homosexual agenda” from schools.

Gus Frederick put his talents toward this one:

And finally, Democracy Talking turned in this gem: