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Meg Whitman on California's Economy

July 27, 2010

Source: Good Morning America

Former eBay chief discusses her run for governor of California.

 

How state's candidates for governor propose to fix job shortage

July 26, 2010

Source: Dan Smith/Sacramento Bee

With unemployment skyrocketing and the country recovering slowly from a painful recession job creation is the catch phrase of the 2010 election. Every candidate, it seems, has a program to put people back to work.

AB32 to face 2 challenges on November ballot

July 26, 2010

Source: Bob Egelko/San Francisco Chronicle

Californians will vote twice in November on the state's groundbreaking law to reduce emissions that contribute to global warming - once on an oil company-backed initiative to put the law on hold indefinitely, and once in the governor's race, where Republican Meg Whitman has promised to suspend the rules for a year.

Governor: Freezing AB32 "would be devastating"

July 26, 2010

Source: Carla Marinucci/San Francisco Chronicle

Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says political candidates and forces in his own party who argue for the suspension of the state's climate change law are "trying to pull the wool over people's eyes" and have "the intention of eliminating" the landmark climate change bill he signed in 2006.

"There is no suspension," the governor said in an interview with The Chronicle last week, adding that the state's economy is "like a ship - and when you approach the iceberg, you cannot just move the ship."

Mudslinging dominates governor's race

July 23, 2010

Source: Timothy Sandoval/California Watch

Gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman have both repudiated partisan politics and attacks made against their campaigns.

But despite their concern about partisan attacks, Politics Verbatim has documented hundreds of attacks the two candidates have made since the beginning of the campaign.

Jerry Brown: California's Once and Future Governor?

July 22, 2010

Source: Karl Taro Greenfield/Time Magazine

How do you want us to tell the Jerry Brown story? As a comeback tale? A mystery? A quest? A love story? A little-guy-makes-good story? He is all of them, the comeback kid at 72, the former two-term Democratic governor and three-time presidential candidate who fell from grace, searched for spirituality, found love and worked his way up from two-term mayor of Oakland (1998 to 2006) to current state attorney general to, possibly governor again.

Is GOPer Meg Whitman softening tough pre-primary position on AB32?

July 22, 2010

Source: Carla Marinucci/San Francisco Chronicle

GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman just weeks ago sharply rejected AB32, the landmark greenhouse gases bill, as a "blunt instrument" and job killer that the state "simply cannot afford." Today, her campaign says Whitman "supports the goals of AB32,'' and hopes to "fix its implementation'' by temporarily suspending the measure and re-assessing it.

Whitman accuses Brown of having 'no plan' in latest ad

July 22, 2010

Source: Maeve Reston/Los Angeles Times

Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman began airing a new television advertisement Thursday accusing her Democratic rival Jerry Brown of having “no plan” to fix California’s woes and using Brown’s televised comments from two decades ago against him.

Whom will Schwarzenegger back?

July 21, 2010

Source: Maggie Haberman/Politico

His name is barely mentioned on the campaign trail. Yet in the race to replace him between Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown, low-polling Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will almost certainly be back — and playing a leading role — as Election Day grows near.

The conventional wisdom is that the two-term California governor is largely irrelevant in a contest in which his 22 percent approval rating in the recent Field Poll makes him too toxic to embrace.

OPINION: Bad Ideas and Lies Aren't Better Than No Ideas

July 20, 2010

Source: Robert Cruickshank/Calitics

The latest meme spreading among the punditocracy on the governor's race is that Meg Whitman has ideas, but Jerry Brown doesn't - so therefore Whitman has the advantage. There's just one little problem with this view: Whitman's ideas are extremely bad for California and our future.

Here's Steve Lopez writing in the LA Times this weekend: