SFGate: Big Brown-Whitman debate on KGO radio Tuesday cancelled

[Democat]

The big radio debate between California gubernatorial candidatees -- Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican Meg Whitman -- which had been scheduled Tuesday at 10 a.m. on the Ronn Owens' show has been cancelled, the station says.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=73752

Maybe related to Whitman's recent drop in the polls?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x465469

[Aramchek]

1. Meg is really tired of talking about her Housekeepr. She's running scared.

I would be scared if I was her husband.
His chickenscratch cost Meg 120 Million.

[vaberella]

3. Hahahaha.....totally. n/t

[vaberella]

2. Well based on WI_DEM posts on DU...it's been a systemic drop.

With a rather significant difference since the story...but not by much. Anyway I can see this being her ultimate doom. She lost overly 120+ million in this race. Ridiculous.

[opihimoimoi]

4. Brown is the REAL DEAL....Meg is a ROOKIE....she ain't ready for Prime Time

[Brother Buzz]

5. Sometimes in politics, when you're in a hole, it's not enough to stop digging.

Meg Whitman's spaghetti strategy or let's see what sticks

Sometimes in politics, when you're in a hole, it's not enough to stop digging. If it's deep enough, you've got to either start filling it in or convince someone else to join you in the mud at the bottom.


Since the story of Meg Whitman's undocumented housekeeper erupted on the celebrity gossip site TMZ.com Wednesday, Team Whitman has been working overtime trying to figure out a way to put out the fire. The GOP candidate for governor has plenty of advisers and they've got lots of ideas. Problem is, they've tried out each and every one of them in a rapidly changing kaleidoscope of strategies that's left reporters -- not to mention voters -- wondering just what the heck is going on.

The fun started Wednesday with a telephone news conference 30 minutes before attorney Gloria Allred, who's never seen a TV camera she didn't like, brought out Nicandra Diaz Santillian, the Whitman family's former housekeeper, to announce that she was an illegal immigrant and Whitman knew it for years.

Strategy 1: Move along, folks, nothing to see here.

A campaign release said a couple of Whitman spokesman types would make statements about reports that "notorious attorney Gloria Allred will ... insert herself into the 2010 Governor's race."

Strategy 2: The Democrats made the housekeeper do it.

"I feel terrible for Nicky," Whitman said at a Wednesday afternoon campaign stop. "She's being manipulated and I'm sorry." Hector Barajas, a campaign spokesman, dumped the blame on the Democrats, calling the incident "a political manipulation by the Jerry Brown campaign."

Strategy 3: Even the press thinks the charges are "a bunch of garbage."

Wednesday afternoon the campaign sent out another release saying that The Chronicle "published an editorial in response to the false and ridiculous accusations made by notorious Attorney Gloria Allred." Small problem, though. The "editorial" was actually an opinion piece written by Debra Saunders, a conservative columnist for the paper. That's a column, not an editorial.

Strategy 4: Papers? What papers?

"Neither my husband or I received any letter from the Social Security Administration," Whitman said at a Thursday morning news conference.

Strategy 5: The housekeeper really did do it.

Diaz "may have intercepted the letter, it's very possible. I have no other explanation," Whitman said at the news conference.

Strategy 6: Oops. But so what?

The writing on the Social Security letter released by Allred and Diaz "probably is (my husband's) signature," Whitman said in a radio interview later in the day. "I don't think (the letter) did actually raise red flags."

Strategy 7: This has gone on long enough.

Leaders from across California "call for an end to Jerry Brown/Gloria Allred's political circus" reads a Thursday release. Every one of those Golden State leaders, though, is a Republican who has endorsed Whitman for governor.

Strategy 8: Bring on the lie detector.

Whitman says at the Thursday news conference she would "absolutely" take a lie detector test to verify her version of the story.

Strategy 8a: Or maybe not.

A campaign spokeswoman later said Whitman won't take a lie detector test unless Brown and her accusers take one first.

Strategy 9: No scandal here.

"There is No Meg Whitman-Housekeeper Scandal" reads the headline from the New York Post story sent out by the Whitman campaign today. Which will be sad news for the newspapers, TV shows and Internet bloggers still firing out story after story about what's now officially not a scandal. And the California voters who are eagerly devouring each one.

Strategy 10: It's business as usual.
A Friday afternoon release "calls on Jerry Brown to announce positions on November propositions."

This is at least the third time in the past week or so that the campaign has sent out a nearly identical release -- with the same non-effect on the Brown campaign -- but it does change the subject.

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Hopefully.
-- John Wildermuth

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=73676

[activa8tr]

6. Fantastic! I hope this gets printed up and sent around to

independent voters all over the state.

She sure looks like a horrible person with all those statements and press releases in one week.

I like how she waffled on the lie detector bullshit. Bottom line, she knew, and she didn't care!

[Brother Buzz]

7. What's amazing is that's just a three day timeline

:crazy:

[jenmito]

8. She must've gotten advice from Palin: "Talk only to Faux." Does anyone else think that

Brown sounds like Larry David? :D

[WeekendWarrior]

9. She's running scared

I live in California and God I hate that woman. Does anyone ever bring up the fact that she drove Ebay into the ground during her last three years there? Does anyone talk about her acquisition of SKYPE -- she spent millions on the technology but forgot to acquire the SOURCE CODE in the sale.

[27inCali]

10. how much has Brown spent? half a million

less than one half of one percent of what Whitman spent -and he's destroying her? haha

man, that's one hell of a politician, Jerry Brown. Take some pointers Dems.

the way he addressed the Immigrant maid issue, not even going for the jugular -no- he was killing softly, saying "hey, it's a mistake, admit the mistake." and everyone knows she can't.

turn the knife slowly Jerry.....