Personal life
Jerry Brown
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Nov. 4, 2010The former Oakland mayor also said he will continue living in the Oakland hills with his wife, Anne Gust Brown, although they will find a place to live in Sacramento that will be "modest." Still, he said, "I'm not selling (the Oakland) house until it maintains its original value, and that may take a lot of work on my part."
Source: San Francisco ChronicleTags: Personal life, Quotable
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 29, 2010"After failing to vote for more than a quarter of a century and not so much as expressing a public opinion for most of her adult life, Whitman is suddenly the candidate with all the answers," Clifford continued. "In reality, Whitman is a marketing creation propped up by legions of political consultants, policy ghostwriters and image-makers."
Source: Jerry Brown campaignTags: Campaigns and politics, Personal life, Candidate attack
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 28, 2010"She is here illegally. She's breaking the law right now, so we'll leave it for the federal authorities," Whitman said.
Source: Associated PressTags: Immigration, Personal life, No comment or deflection, Policy or issue position
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 26, 2010Brown, in contrast, initially rambled, jumping from talking about his grandmother reading him Bible stories to his time as a Jesuit seminarian in a "cocoon of religious fervor," to his mother bringing order to a chaotic household. "I've always appreciated that relationship between order and chaos," he concluded.
Source: Los Angeles TimesTags: Personal life, Quotable
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 18, 2010During a campaign stop in Garden Grove this morning, Meg Whitman defended her plan to eliminate the state's capital-gains tax and brushed aside a comment from opponent Jerry Brown that she'd get roughly $15 million in tax savings if the plan was instituted. "What person in her right mind would spend $140 million to run for governor to save $15 million?" the Republican gubernatorial candidate told reporters after a stump speech at the Earth Friendly Products soap and detergent plant.
Source: The Orange County RegisterTags: Personal life, Taxes, Assertion of fact
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 18, 2010On Monday, Whitman said she can't possibly determine how much stock she might sell in the future. She told reporters that no person in their right mind would spend $140 million to save $15 million. "I mean, it just shows that Jerry Brown does not understand math. The fact that I would run for governor to enrich myself is ridiculous," Whitman said after touring a manufacturing plant for environmentally friendly cleaning supplies in Garden Grove. "It's a political stunt, it's class warfare. That's what he is trying to put forth. And it's simply not true."
Source: Associated PressTags: Campaigns and politics, Personal life, Taxes, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 18, 2010While foundation records to date might not show much besides the Telluride contribution, campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds wanted us to know that Whitman has donated $98 million of her own eBay stocks to the tax-deductible fund - "100 percent designated for charitable giving." And that's in addition, he said, to $30 million that Whitman gave in 2002 to her alma mater, Princeton - where they built a dorm in her name and where one of her two sons still attends school.
Source: San Francisco ChronicleTags: Personal life, Assertion of fact
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 18, 2010Spokesman Sterling Clifford said (Jerry Brown and his wife) have personally, or through their family foundation, contributed $600,000 since 2005 to the Oakland Military Institute and Oakland School for the Arts, the pair of charter schools that Brown helped launch as mayor.
Source: San Francisco ChronicleTags: Personal life, Assertion of fact
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 14, 2010On the housekeeper scandal: "Californians understand that that was a political stunt. I did nothing wrong," Whitman said.
Source: CNNTags: Immigration, Personal life, Assertion of fact
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 14, 2010"This is a tax cut that benefits only a handful of Californians, but puts thousands of kids and schools at risk," Brown said. "Dozens of economists have looked at her plan and said it costs too much, and adds too much to our debt. At the very least, she should tell voters how much she stands to gain, so they can decide for themselves if it is worth what the rest of us lose."
Source: Jerry Brown campaignTags: Education, Personal life, Taxes, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 14, 2010Narrator: You know it's bad when the press asks if you'd take a lie detector test. Meg Whitman didn't tell the truth about not voting or about how long she lived in California. She got caught in insider deals at Goldman Sachs. She changed her story about physically abusing an employee. She campaigned as tough as nails on immigration knowing her housekeeper of nine years was undocumented. Her TV ads have been condemned as false and misleading. And even her hometown newspaper said Meg Whitman has demonstrated a "loose relationship with the truth."
Source: Jerry Brown campaignTags: Campaigns and politics, Immigration, Personal life, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 14, 2010"At a time when school districts are laying-off teachers and cutting art programs, the last thing we need is a bigger hole in the state budget," said Brown. "This is a tax cut that will mostly benefit the very wealthiest people in our state, namely millionaires and billionaires like Meg Whitman. She should be straight with the people and tell us how much she stands to gain from her tax cut plan and how much our schools, teachers and students stand to lose."
Source: Jerry Brown campaignTags: Personal life, Taxes, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 14, 2010"We went to an employment agency to hire our housekeeper. We had three forms of identification. She was a great employee. Came to us, you know, nine years later and admitted that she was illegal, and we did what we had to do which was let her go," Whitman said.
Source: CNNTags: Campaigns and politics, Immigration, Personal life, Assertion of fact
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 13, 2010Brown appeared soon after, and said, "I'd like Ms. Whitman to apologize to her housekeeper for something that I think is really insensitive" - a reference to the revelation that Whitman fired a longtime household employee who, she discovered, was in the country illegally.
Source: The Washington PostTags: Campaigns and politics, Personal life, Candidate attack
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 13, 2010Responding to Brown's question about how much her proposed tax breaks would save her personally: "I was a job creator. We have got to get someone in office who knows what the conditions are for small businesses to grow and thrive," she retorted. "Your business is politics. You've been doing this 40 years and you have been part of the war on jobs in this state for 40 years."
Source: The Washington PostTags: Personal life, Taxes, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack
