No comment or deflection
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
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 22, 2010When Whitman spoke to employees, a worker asked her in Spanish if she favored driver's licenses for illegal immigrants. She did not answer, instead returning to her talking points about jobs as the protesters' chants — "Californians be aware, Meg Whitman does not care" — echoed in the background at the open-air event. Reminded that she had not answered the question, Whitman then said she opposed such licenses.
Source: Los Angeles TimesTags: Campaigns and politics, Immigration, No comment or deflection, Policy or issue position
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 13, 2010Whitman said: "I'm an investor, and investors will benefit from this, but so will job creators. "My business is creating jobs, and yours is politics. You've been doing this for 40 years ... and you've been part of a war on jobs for 40 years," she said.
Source: San Francisco ChronicleTags: Campaigns and politics, Jobs, Taxes, Assertion of fact, No comment or deflection
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 12, 2010Darrel Ng, a Whitman spokesman, declined to comment when asked whether the remark would sway female voters and declined to say whether Whitman would raise the issue.
Source: BloombergTags: Campaigns and politics, No comment or deflection
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 11, 2010Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman declined to comment Sunday about a recording on which someone associated with rival Jerry Brown's campaign suggested characterizing her as a "whore" for allegedly limiting her pension plan's effect on public safety officers in order to garner their endorsements. "It's a slur and I'm not going to dignify it with a response," Whitman said after speaking to hundreds of supporters at a Van Nuys rally with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Source: Los Angeles TimesTags: Campaigns and politics, State workers, No comment or deflection
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 11, 2010The candidate demurred when asked if she had ever heard anyone associated with her campaign make an inappropriate comment. "I think voters want a campaign on the issues. They want to know what I'm going to do about jobs, what I'm going to do about education, how we're going to cut wasteful spending," she said. "I think the media needs to turn the attention back to the issues that are in front of every Californian between now and Nov. 2."
Source: Los Angeles TimesTags: Campaigns and politics, No comment or deflection
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 11, 2010When asked for her position on AB 619, which would have required companies seeking contracts to build California's High Speed Rail system to disclose their involvement in deportations to concentration camps during World War II, Whitman said, "On issues like this ... the question I asked myself as the head of eBay was, `What's the right thing to do here?"' Whitman said an example of doing the right thing was California officials asking the Germany-based engineering conglomerate Siemens whether it wanted to continue providing telecommunications equipment to Iran or do business with state government. "In the end, Siemens said, `We're going to do business with the state of California,"' Whitman said. "We have enormous economic leverage here. We have to make sure that we use it appropriately and effectively," Whitman said, drawing applause.
Source: City News ServiceTags: Campaigns and politics, No comment or deflection
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 9, 2010On whether Brown will make a public apology for someone in his office calling Whitman "a whore" over allegations that she traded pension protection for a law enforcement endorsement: A Brown spokesman said the campaign did not plan to issue any other statement beyond its apology made Thursday.
Source: Los Angeles TimesTags: Campaigns and politics, No comment or deflection
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 9, 2010When asked how he would be a different governor than three decades ago, he quipped, "Do you know what it was like the first time?"
Source: Associated PressTags: Campaigns and politics, No comment or deflection
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 9, 2010In a recent interview with The Associated Press, Brown bristled when asked why, at retirement age, he wanted to return to the governor's office, saying he'd already explained his reasons on the campaign trail and during the first gubernatorial debate. He would be California's oldest governor if elected. "I'll repeat my lines verbatim if you want," Brown said. "I can make up a different reason, but it won't be the reason I was thinking of."
Source: Associated PressTags: Campaigns and politics, No comment or deflection, Quotable
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 5, 2010On the Gloria Allred/housekeeper scandal: Brown's campaign declined comment.
Source: Associated PressTags: Campaigns and politics, Immigration, Personal life, No comment or deflection
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 4, 2010“There were discussions with the station about a debate, by mutual agreement of both campaigns those discussions have been tabled,” Brown spokesman Sterling Clifford said.
Source: PoliticoTags: Campaigns and politics, Assertion of fact, No comment or deflection
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 4, 2010"The debate is not happening by mutual agreement of the campaigns,'' Sterling Clifford, a spokesman for Brown, said this morning.
Source: San Jose Mercury NewsTags: Campaigns and politics, Assertion of fact, No comment or deflection
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 4, 2010A Whitman source added that there is “no debate” and that “the campaigns have jointly communicated that fact to KGO.”
Source: PoliticoTags: Campaigns and politics, Assertion of fact, No comment or deflection
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 30, 2010On whether she would support deporting her former housekeeper, an illegal immigrant: I’m going to leave that up to the immigration authorities. I support a guest worker program. That’s one of the reasons I’m running for governor – I want this state to get back on track. … This is a distraction from what I think Californians really care about.
Source:Tags: Immigration, Personal life, No comment or deflection, Policy or issue position
