Labor
Meg Whitman
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Nov. 7, 2010"The big unions in the last couple of years have spent $300 million on politics," Murphy said. "So, you either can't raise enough money to compete, and they swamp you ... or you spend your own money, but if you're a self-funder, the press wants to make that money the issue."
Source: PolitiCal (Los Angeles Times)Tags: Campaigns and politics, Labor, Assertion of fact
Meg Whitman
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Nov. 7, 2010Murphy also blamed spending by the state's influential public-employee unions, in part, for the loss, saying they "run California politics." Unions spent heavily on TV ads attacking Whitman during the summer months as Brown hoarded his limited treasury. "They paid for Jerry Brown's campaign," he said.
Source: PolitiCal (Los Angeles Times)Tags: Campaigns and politics, Labor, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 29, 2010At a press conference, Whitman said she was not surprised by the aggression of her opponents, which she said betrayed fear that she would slash their "lavish pensions" and other benefits. "What you see is that the unions are fighting for the control they've had in Sacramento for the past 10 to 15 years," she said.
Source: Los Angeles TimesTags: Campaigns and politics, Labor, Assertion of fact
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 27, 2010Whitman has also pledged to take on the state's powerful unions. "It's gonna take someone who treats Californians like a grown up, who tells Californians the way it really is, who puts a positive way forward and has the backbone to take on the entrenched interests in Sacramento," said Whitman.
Source: KGTV (ABC - San Diego)Tags: Campaigns and politics, Labor, Leadership style, Assertion of fact
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 25, 2010Whitman singled out unions as trying to protect the status quo, which she said must be upended. "Why do you think they're following me around?" she said as supporters booed the protesting union members.
Source: Associated PressTags: Campaigns and politics, Labor, Assertion of fact
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 19, 2010"For his part, Jerry Brown is relying on those very unions to underwrite his campaign for governor and launch attack campaigns against Meg. Public employee unions are so certain of Meg's determination to change the retirement system that, at last count, they are spending more than $25 million to back Mr. Brown, and are on track to spend more than the candidate himself." -- Richard Costigan
Source: Meg Whitman campaignTags: Labor, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 19, 2010Announcer: Unions have spent over $20 million against Meg Whitman. Millions in cash for Brown. And the teachers' union just spent millions more attacking Meg. Jerry Brown again? He sure comes with strings attached.
Source: Meg Whitman campaignTags: Campaigns and politics, Labor, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 19, 2010Announcer: The independence to fix our schools? Meg Whitman. Cut administrative overhead, put more money in the classroom, more charter schools. Jerry Brown? His union backers want to make it nearly impossible to fire a bad teacher. They oppose reform, oppose charter schools, oppose change. Jerry Brown: No changes in education. Meg Whitman: More money in the classroom. More charter schools. A chance for change.
Source: Meg Whitman campaignTags: Campaigns and politics, Education, Labor, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack, Policy or issue position
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 7, 2010Whitman's people are quick to slam the union support as an example of politics as usual for Brown. "The (millions) unions have used to buy and pay for the Jerry Brown campaign is more evidence that Jerry Brown represents the problems in Sacramento," Pompei said.
Source: San Francisco ChronicleTags: Campaigns and politics, Labor, Candidate attack
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 7, 2010Spending by those union groups to challenge Whitman let Brown conserve his money over the summer for his fall push. "The time to use resources is at the end of the campaign, when everyone is paying attention," Clifford said. "We started at Labor Day, so we still have $22.5 million we're able to spend in the final month."
Source: San Francisco ChronicleTags: Campaigns and politics, Labor, Spending, Assertion of fact
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 5, 2010While labor unions have lavished money on Brown's campaign, the former two-term governor says he will stand up to special interests if elected. “After a summer in which Meg Whitman decried independent expenditures, it would be interesting to hear whether they also think this independent expenditure is the end of the universe,” said Sterling Clifford, a spokesman for Brown. “He has always been independent-minded and stood up to powerful interests in his own party. As governor, he twice vetoed pay raises for employees.”
Source: Bay CitizenTags: Crime, Labor, State workers, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 5, 2010Ng fired back, chastising Brown for his record on crime. “It’s obvious that public safety officers remember how soft on crime Jerry Brown was when he was first governor 30 years ago and this group wants to make sure it doesn’t happen again," Ng said. "Jerry Brown has benefited from about $20 million in independent expenditures so far, the vast majority of which come from labor unions, which he could directly pay back if elected.”
Source: Bay CitizenTags: Crime, Labor, State workers, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 4, 2010Brown spokesman Sterling Clifford called Whitman’s statement “patently untrue.” He said the former governor and current state attorney general “certainly had some support from labor” but has twice vetoed raises for public employees. “I think the biggest problem in Sacramento is the finger pointing and the lack of accountability,” Clifford said. “And I certainly don’t think Meg Whitman is going to bring any additional accountability to Sacramento.”
Source: San Diego Union-TribuneTags: Labor, Assertion of fact
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 4, 2010"Taken together, the campaign website and his promises to the editorial board paint a picture of a candidate who appears to conflict with Jerry Brown's record when he was mayor of Oakland. According to news clips from the Oakland Tribune (which were so old they weren't even online; we could only access them through Nexis), Mayor Brown was directly involved in union negotiations in 2003 that upped employees benefits to 2.7% at 55, an increase that at least contributed to fiscal problems in Oakland."
Source: Meg Whitman campaignTags: Campaigns and politics, Labor, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 4, 2010Whitman acknowledged some of the challenges if she is elected governor, but argued she would have an advantage over Brown when it came to dealing with public employee unions. She accused him of being “bought and paid for” by unions and said he would have “a very difficult time challenging” them.
Source: San Diego Union-TribuneTags: Labor, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack
