Whitman booed for standing by ads
At women's conference, gubernatorial candidates urged to cease negativity
By SEEMA MEHTA and MICHAEL J. MISHAK
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Published: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at 4:03 a.m.
LONG BEACH -- As an audience of 14,000 women roared their approval, California gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown were asked pointedly on Tuesday to take down the negative advertisements that are saturating California's airwaves as the Nov. 2 election nears.
Brown agreed to the proposal -- made by NBC journalist Matt Lauer, who was moderating an appearance of the two and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at the annual Women's Conference in Long Beach -- if Whitman also assented.
Whitman declined, and the audience booed.
The conflict was the most dramatic moment of an event that provided the last planned face-to-face meeting of the two candidates before Tuesday's election. And it instantly shifted the dynamic of the event.
When the candidates were first introduced, Whitman, who would be the first woman governor in California history, clearly received the louder applause and warmer cheers...
pressdemocrat.com
No regrets. Not too bright.
SAN DIEGO — California GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman said Wednesday that she has no second thoughts about airing attack ads during the final week of her campaign, a day after she was booed for refusing a truce in the increasingly negative campaign.
Whitman said she would continue to highlight Democrat Jerry Brown's record as governor from 1975 to 1983 and as mayor of Oakland from 1998 to 2006, echoing her remarks a day earlier at a joint appearance with her rival.
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