Candidate attack
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
Jerry Brown
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Nov. 1, 2010In a final jab at his opponent, he told supporters to see the details of his platform on his campaign website. "Whitman's plan is mostly pictures, but I have more respect for you," he said.
Source: San Jose Mercury NewsTags: Campaigns and politics, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 29, 2010"Meg Whitman seems to think that an unrelenting stream of consultant-driven attack ads, picture book plans and talking points are enough to win this race and solve California's problems," said Jerry Brown for Governor Campaign Spokesman Sterling Clifford. "If your message isn't true, people won't buy it."
Source: Jerry Brown campaignTags: Campaigns and politics, Candidate attack
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, 2010Whitman said that while she would not raise taxes, Brown would. "Voters be warned," Whitman said. "If Jerry Brown is the next governor, you're going to see a tax increase, and it's not what California needs."
Source: Capitol Alert (Sacramento Bee)Tags: Campaigns and politics, Taxes, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack, Promise
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 28, 2010"I saw today that former Governor Gray Davis says that if Jerry Brown is elected, we will have a special election in the spring to ask voters for even higher taxes. Talk about March Madness! More taxes in a recession. And Gray Davis ought to know; he was Jerry Brown's right hand man for years. Voters, you are warned. Jerry Brown will bring more spending, more taxes and more lost jobs to California." -- Meg Whitman, Republican nominee for Governor
Source: Meg Whitman campaignTags: Taxes, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 28, 2010Whitman said at a campaign stop in Stockton that Brown, the former governor and state attorney general, has been "missing in action." "I think he wants to be appointed to this office, not elected," the former eBay CEO told reporters after speaking to about 75 supporters at JM Eagle, a plastic pipe manufacturer. "I am working for every single vote in California. I am traveling throughout this state."
Source: Capitol Alert (Sacramento Bee)Tags: Campaigns and politics, Candidate attack
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 26, 2010"Our campaign is going to continue to advertise Meg's positive vision for California, while also running fair and truthful ads that highlight Jerry Brown's long record on the issues. For more than six months, the Brown campaign and its allies in the public employee unions have been running a negative campaign against Meg Whitman. Most of their advertising attacks have focused on character assassination, avoiding any real discussion of the important issues that are of interest to Californians. In July, Jerry Brown's campaign manager foreshadowed the strategy behind their attack-style campaign and declared a 'war on character issues'. A declaration that came just months after Jerry Brown was videotaped behind closed doors making pleas to his special interest allies in Sacramento to 'attack' so he could be 'the nice guy'. California's voters deserve better. Jerry Brown can keep trying to fool the public that he's 'the nice guy' but in reality he's a cynical career politician running a cynical and negative campaign. The Brown campaign should pull its misleading character attacks on Meg Whitman and instead use its advertising to conduct an honest debate on the issues, something that has been missing from the Brown campaign for months." ---Sarah Pompei, Meg Whitman 2010
Source: Meg Whitman campaignTags: Campaigns and politics, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack, Policy or issue position
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 26, 2010"Jerry Brown in many ways left this state in worse shape than when he inherited it," she said.
Source: Los Angeles TimesTags: Campaigns and politics, Candidate attack
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 25, 2010She told hundreds of supporters that Democrat Jerry Brown is "soft on crime" and that she will end his political career. "One more week," Whitman told a cheering crowd at the Hyatt Westlake Plaza in Westlake Village. "One more week until we retire Jerry Brown permanently from politics."
Source: McClatchy NewspapersTags: Campaigns and politics, Crime, Candidate attack, Prediction
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 25, 2010Brown spokesman Sterling Clifford said Brown would make no single ideological issue a litmus test for judicial appointments. "As her campaign gets more and more desperate, she's running more and more promises up the flag pole," he said.
Source: McClatchy NewspapersTags: Courts, Candidate attack, Policy or issue position
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 25, 2010Whitman, joined by crime victim advocates, told The Sacramento Bee she would treat the death penalty as a litmus test when considering all judicial nominees. She criticized Brown, the former governor, for what she called his "long history of judges that were very liberal," in particular his controversial appointment of Rose Bird as chief justice of the California Supreme Court.
Source: McClatchy NewspapersTags: Courts, Candidate attack, Policy or issue position
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 22, 2010"Jerry Brown has taken this vote for granted. He's living on what he did for this community 40 years ago," Whitman said. "I'm the first Republican in 30 years to open an office in East L.A. I have reached out to this community, I've been part of this community.... Our entire Internet site is translated into Spanish. His website — he uses Google to translate it into Spanish. I mean, think about that — it's not respect for the community."
Source: Los Angeles TimesTags: Campaigns and politics, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 22, 2010"Meg Whitman has run the most relentlessly negative and dishonest campaign in California history, and nearly every ad she has put out has been derided as entirely or mostly false by just about every reputable news organization in the state of California and many national ones," said Brown spokesman Sterling Clifford. "So I think Californians know who's not telling the truth."
Source: Los Angeles TimesTags: Campaigns and politics, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 22, 2010Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman lashed out at rival Jerry Brown on Thursday, accusing the Democrat and his labor allies of spreading lies among Latinos about her position on immigration as her poll numbers have plummeted among that key sector of the electorate. "It makes me mad that he's just out there telling lies," Whitman said after touring a small Latino-owned Los Angeles business that imports and manufactures decorative metal pieces for homes. "He accuses me of not being truthful. He is the one just not telling the truth on this, and it makes me mad and I'm not going to let it stand."
Source: Los Angeles TimesTags: Campaigns and politics, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack, Quotable
