Photos: Campaign mailers

Independent expenditure committees supporting both Laura Friedman and Ardy Kassakhian each tried to compare the candidates, who are both Democrats, to Donald Trump in the tight 43rd Assembly District race.

On the left is a mailer presenting “The Laura Friedman story,” courtesy of her campaign; on the right is a rebuttal from her opponent, Ardy Kassakhian, purporting to tell “the real Laura Friedman story.”

A mailer urges a “yes” vote on Measure A, an L.A. County parcel tax measure for parks.

Mailers sent by Assembly candidate Laura Friedman emphasized the need to elect more women and her endorsements from Planned Parenthood.

Opponents of the initiative that would increase the per-pack cigarette tax play on the idea that special interests have rigged the law in their favor.

The Yes on Proposition 61 campaign sent out a mailer with Hillary Clinton’s image, despite the fact that she hasn’t endorsed the initiative.

This Anthony Portantino mailer portrays Trump and Portantino’s opponent, Mike Antonovich, as “two peas in a pod.”   (Christine Mai-Duc / Los Angeles Times )

One of the No on 61 campaign messages has been labeling the initiative “the deceptive prescription proposition.”

A mailer sent out by the Anthony Portantino campaign places an image of his opponent, Republican Mike Antonovich, next to Donald Trump and accuses them both of “locker room talk.”