MORE ON: Meg Whitman

Daily Report: Money and Politics

Allred once worked on Brown campaign, but says maid case isn't partisan

October 1, 2010, 11:49 AM
Updated: Gloria Allred, the attorney at the center of this week's spectacle over Meg Whitman's illegal immigrant housekeeper, spent time working for Jerry Brown's gubernatorial campaign in the mid-1970s, according to a decades-old article in an American Bar Association magazine. ... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

New poll shows Brown, Whitman in dead heat; Boxer leads against Fiorina

September 29, 2010, 9:01 PM
Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman are in a dead heat in the governor’s race, but 18 percent of voters are still undecided a month before the election, a new Public Policy Institute of California survey says. The survey, released last night, was completed before Tuesday’s first... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

As debate nears with Brown, Whitman disputes poll

September 28, 2010, 7:28 AM
Voters can watch Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown square off in a debate at UC Davis at 6 p.m. tonight. The event airs on KTVU in the Bay Area, and California Watch will be live blogging the event. Check back at CaliforniaWatch.org just before the debate. For months, polls have shown Whitman and... + read more
Maldonado: baby face
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Which candidate has a baby face – and will it help?

September 27, 2010, 12:59 AM
Do American voters presume that a politician with a baby face is incompetent? Do they vote for him anyway? Three Scandinavian economists tackled these unusual electoral questions in a deadly-serious academic study published in the current number of the Journal of Experimental Social... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Whitman gets more campaign cash from Goldman Sachs

September 23, 2010, 12:05 AM
Since winning the Republican primary, Meg Whitman has banked $105,700 more in donations from her old contacts at Goldman Sachs, the powerful and controversial investment bank. Whitman, the billionaire former CEO of the online auction house eBay, has spent more of her own money on her... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics, Public Safety

Public safety pension shortfalls vex candidates, taxpayers

September 22, 2010, 12:05 AM
Many of the loudest calls for California public pension reform point to law enforcement retirement plans as Exhibit A in showing that the state is too generous to police officers and other public safety employees. So it is interesting to note that the Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Study: More money, fewer votes in gubernatorial primaries

September 7, 2010, 12:05 AM
Even as gubernatorial campaign spending has skyrocketed in recent years, fewer and fewer voters have been turning out to the polls in state primary elections, according to a study released late last week by the California Fair Political Practices Commission. The study [PDF] concludes that the... + read more
Daily Report: K–12

Whitman overstates excess jobs in California Department of Education

September 1, 2010, 12:05 AM
Meg Whitman has finally given a specific example of jobs she would go after should she become governor: 150 jobs in the California Department of Education.  "The Legislative Analyst's Office found that the Department of Education has 150 staffers working on programs it no longer... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Is California still the startup capital of the U.S.?

August 27, 2010, 12:05 AM
In a March interview with San Francisco columnist Debra J. Saunders, Meg Whitman said she would probably start eBay in Texas if she had the chance now. And tech blog ReadWriteWeb maintains an ongoing "Never Mind the Valley" series about "communities outside the Silicon Valley that... + read more
Spotlight: Money and Politics

GRAPHIC: When did Brown and Whitman launch all these websites?

August 20, 2010, 12:05 AM
Gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman have unrolled a string of campaign websites targeted at specific audiences since spring 2010. This timeline should help sort out when candidates first launched their specialized websites. + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

With FPPC Internet rules on horizon, Brown and Whitman experiment online

August 20, 2010, 12:05 AM
Who are Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown? Depends who you ask. Jerryfails.com would have you believe Brown’s life amounts to nothing but “a career politician with a legacy of broken promises and failure.” Meg-a-Myths.com barely stops short of calling Whitman a pathological liar,... + read more
Attorney General Jerry Brown's lawsuit targets unsafe levels of lead detected in bounce houses.
Daily Report: Environment

Attorney general goes after poisonous lead levels in bounce houses

August 12, 2010, 12:05 AM
If visions of broken legs and whiplash isn’t enough for anxious parents watching kids romp in a giant, vinyl air-filled castle, California’s Attorney General has another nightmare scenario to add to the list: lead exposure. Jerry Brown’s office filed suit Wednesday against... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

State workers urge movie boycott on Schwarzenegger's latest

August 10, 2010, 12:05 AM
Summer’s dog days are upon us. The economy’s still a mess. It sounds like the perfect time for some Cineplex escapism. Hey, how about “The Expendables,” that new Sylvester Stallone action blockbuster? Not so fast, says a growing number of increasingly aggrieved... + read more
Brown and Whitman
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Mudslinging dominates governor's race

July 23, 2010, 12:05 AM
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... + read more
Romney and Whitman
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Romney, Whitman sharing same wealthy donors

July 22, 2010, 12:05 AM
In political fundraising, as in life, it seems the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. As former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., once again gears up his national fundraising apparatus for another shot at the presidency, many of the big donors supporting him in California have also given... + read more
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