MORE ON: Meg Whitman

Over the last two weeks, more than two dozen major campaign donors to Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown have been scrambling to hedge their bets. At least 14 donors who once backed Whitman have donated $5,000 or more to Brown's campaign since Oct. 14, perhaps owing to her recent decline in the... + read more

With the state suffering under the weight of a crushing 12.4 unemployment rate, "jobs, jobs, jobs" has been the rallying cry of both candidates. Meg Whitman has positioned herself as the one with the business savvy to make these jobs materialize and touts her experience leading eBay... + read more

Standing on stage at USC on Friday, a fired-up Jerry Brown told his college-aged audience that “green jobs” are California’s future. “We don’t need Saudi Arabian oil or Texas gas,” he said, speaking to a crowd hyped up in anticipation of President Obama... + read more

Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman have both struggled to define their position on immigration during an election year in which the Latino vote is critical and tough laws in a neighboring state have made headlines. Whitman arguably has had a more difficult road, trying to find a middle ground between... + read more

Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown agree that serious reforms are needed to wrangle California’s notoriously unwieldy, consistently overdue budget. While they overlap in a few areas – both agree cuts are needed in the pension system, for example – their approaches are as different as the... + read more

From someone in Jerry Brown's office caught privately calling Meg Whitman a "whore" for allegedly trading pension protection for endorsements to an anonymous Team Whitman aide mocking Brown with a Humpty Dumpty-style nursery rhyme, it's clear there's no love lost between the... + read more

Despite outspending Jerry Brown nearly 14 to one, Meg Whitman has fallen behind in several recent public opinion polls, fresh off of two televised debates and battered by allegations that she employed an illegal immigrant housekeeper for more than nine years. Whitman has spent more... + read more