June 4, 2010, 12:12 AM
It may be ending in anticlimax, but the Republican race for governor had some excitement down the stretch. On May 12, a Survey USA robo-call poll commissioned by four TV stations showed that, against all odds, state insurance commissioner Steve Poizner had closed to dead even with former eBay...
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May 25, 2010, 12:12 AM
Two weeks before the primary, the Republican contest for governor is a blowout again, with former eBay CEO Meg Whitman surging to a 27-point lead, 54-27, over state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner. That’s according to SurveyUSA, the same pollster that, two weeks ago, reported that...
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May 20, 2010, 12:07 AM
Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman has suffered a “stunning drop” in voter support in her race for the Republican nomination for governor of California, according to results of a statewide survey released last night by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute. Less than a month before the...
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May 13, 2010, 12:10 AM
On Saturday, April 10, Steve Poizner, the state insurance commissioner and Republican candidate for governor, spoke to an audience of only 130 people in Modesto. A Los Angeles Times/USC poll released the previous week showed Poizner trailing GOP rival Meg Whitman by 40 points. Meanwhile,...
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May 4, 2010, 12:06 AM
“Mount Pleasant: My Journey from Creating a Billion Dollar Company to Teaching in a Struggling Public School,” is GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner’s memoir of how he cashed out a Silicon Valley start-up and became a volunteer teacher in East San Jose. As a publishing...
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May 3, 2010, 12:06 AM
In last night’s Republican gubernatorial debate, the topic of front runner Meg Whitman’s ties to the Goldman Sachs investment bank – as corporate director, investor and beneficiary of campaign donations and insider stock deals – came up three times in 60 minutes. ...
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April 29, 2010, 12:06 AM
Her ties to Goldman Sachs may have slowed her momentum, but GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is coming off a successful quarter – at least when it comes to campaign finance. In the three months ending April 26, Whitman raised an impressive $23.3* million, state records show. ...
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April 28, 2010, 12:04 AM
Sixteen days after California Watch and the San Francisco Chronicle reported on her multiple ties to the Goldman Sachs investment bank, Meg Whitman finally broke her silence Tuesday, giving an interview to the AP. But the GOP candidate for governor was still reticent, providing fewer insights...
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April 26, 2010, 12:07 AM
Political advisers to GOP front-runner Meg Whitman believe a candidate’s connection to the Goldman Sachs investment bank is a cause for concern – at least, if the candidate is Democrat Jerry Brown. This weekend the LA Times began zeroing in on how the issue of Goldman Sachs, the...
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April 22, 2010, 12:05 AM
On April 11, California Watch and the San Francisco Chronicle combined to report on GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman’s multiple connections to the Goldman Sachs investment bank – as investor, former corporate director and recipient of insider stock deals and campaign donations....
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March 30, 2010, 12:08 AM
It took us a while, but the intrepid reporters at California Watch were finally able to confirm this week what many politicos have long suspected. Beneath the blaring television ads and bazillion-dollar spending sprees that have thus far defined the California governor's race, there is in fact...
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March 30, 2010, 12:03 AM
It’s 2010, and Jerry Brown is running for governor of California. If he wins, will the Dead Kennedys play the inaugural ball? Absolutely not. Flickr photo by Tyko2000Jello Biafra Still, Brown’s emergence as a candidate for the office he left 28 years ago has also...
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March 26, 2010, 12:06 AM
With the release of their most recent round of campaign finance reports and the seemingly ceaseless barrage of television advertising, there has been much talk lately about the differences in momentum Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner have built up heading into June’s primary. By most...
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March 24, 2010, 9:05 PM
Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman has built a 50-point lead over rival Steve Poizner in the Republican governor’s race and has edged past Democrat Jerry Brown as well, says a Public Policy Institute of California survey released Wednesday. The survey of about 1,100 likely voters also shows...
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March 24, 2010, 12:05 AM
Highlighting a theme GOP strategists have been using recently to attack Jerry Brown, the Republican Governors Association launched a Web site this week calling on the former governor to release more than 2,000 boxes of records documenting his first two terms in the governor's office. ...
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