Meg Whitman, Jerry Brown Spar Over Governor Debates

With the primaries over, and the final field for November set, the two candidates in the California governor's race have engaged in a rhetorical standoff over debates.

Meg Whitman held a rally Thursday at the Tech Museum in San Jose where she responded to a debate invitation for October 11: "You know what I say to Jerry Brown? Bring it on."

Watch Meg Whitman accept the challenge to debate Jerry Brown:

Brown had issued a challenge earlier in the day for 10 debates. Whitman balked at the idea, saying that Brown should get 10 ideas first. (She pointed to a 48-page pamphlet from her campaign).

"She doesn't have a plan," Brown responded at a solar-panel manufacturing plant in Freemont. "She has a pamphlet. And most of it is pictures."

"The path forward is going to be honesty -- not pamphlets and consultants' scripted propaganda, but straight talk," Brown added. "Frugality, not flying around in private planes in a bubble of security guards and people protecting you every moment." He called her "probably the most wasteful campaign spender we have ever seen in the history of California, if not America."

Comments

[Codefile]

09:54 PM on 07/07/2010

hey there are more people posting on the Marijuana legalization issue this Nov than in the meG vs. Mr Brown "race"...whats on people s minds eh? :)

[planetmondo]

08:34 AM on 06/21/2010

And so the Big Lie begins Jerry Browns website has a real plan for Ca. Meg's plan is a bunch of non specific bla bla about lower taxes values and a bright future. no real plan just nice sounding platatudes.OH and you can be sure Whitman will whine and complain about the rules in the debate so there will be little interaction and spontaneity. why only one debate Meg? is it to match the amount of times you even bothered to vote in the last 25 years?according to her own website's
"meet Meg" video her major accomplishment is being her mothers daughter,she was born in NY. and moved to ca to run E-bay She is a RIGHT WING TEABAGGING CARPETBAGGER!

[setdog]

11:59 PM on 06/13/2010

dear state of california employee,

You're Fired!

for your severance package here is a copy of "Ebay for Dummies" and were throwing in a coupon for 10% percent off any HP computer.

[leonel]

08:45 AM on 06/13/2010

In the state of entertainment, the state of living in the future, the person with the best smile will win.

[Cooday]

11:22 PM on 06/12/2010

Beach Boy Tributes by Fans
from Fans for Jerry Brown, Democratic nominee for California Governor

God Only Knows, Beach Boys on ukulele
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr09fYxQXMU

Barbara Ann A Cappella
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFOb8lAuDSs

[AI Seth]

11:26 AM on 06/13/2010

Laker Fans for Jerry Brown

ORIGINAL jabbawockeez at Lakers halftime show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydglTjmZJ1k

Lakers Anthem 2010 HD - Ice Cube, Ray J, Chino Xl, Roscoe Umali, Lil Rob, New Boyz, Dj Felli Fel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVu-mxoNKQM

[liberaldawg]

08:13 PM on 06/12/2010

Jerry Brown will buy her clock on Ebay and then clean it.

[we-r-stardust]

04:14 PM on 06/12/2010

Someone should ask her ..Why she`s spending all those Millions of dollars on a job that pays , $206,500...

[minerva117]

11:10 AM on 06/13/2010

Isn't THAT the $64,000,000 question!

[setdog]

11:55 PM on 06/13/2010

cuz when half the state employees get fired she will make a buttload from them selling all their belongings on ebay.

[01202009]

03:19 PM on 06/12/2010

Mr. Moonbeam will wipe up the floor with her. You can bet she'll use every dodge possible, but as in the case with Palin and even Hillary, Brown will have to take extra special care not to seem to be browbeating her because she's a woman. She'll scream like a pup with its foot caught in the door.

[NoWhineZone]

10:18 PM on 06/12/2010

They called him Moonbeam because he suggested California put its own communication Sat up TO MAKE MONEY. Subsequently several nations have done so. Its not so crazy now.

[skybar]

12:07 PM on 06/12/2010

Not being from California, I have no handle on this race. How is it shaping up? Is Jerry Brown still popular there? What about Meg Whitman?

[situationcritical]

12:13 PM on 06/12/2010

Brown is still very popular, and we believe Meg is a bit insane.

[planetmondo]

08:11 AM on 06/21/2010

NUTMEG!

[enlightenedgirl]

12:13 PM on 06/12/2010

Meg flooded the airwaves with $81 million in cash for her PRIMARY. Who knows what she is going to do to Brown but we need him back. Dems say "Go Jerry" and California is a Blue State. Pelosi, Boxer, Waxman, Feistein. The only reason Arnold got in there was because he was married to Maria, seriously.

The amount of money Meg is throwing around is obscene. Californians will not buy it.

[Chris Rutkowsky]

05:02 AM on 06/13/2010

Sad to say, but CA may be a left-leaning state, but often picks GOP governors. Before Arnold, there was Wilson, Deukmeijin, and Reagan. The only democrats since Pat Brown were Jerry Brown and Gray Davis.

I just hope enough people with kids in school realize when she says she'll "Fix education" and "balance the budget" she means "fire half the teachers and double your kids' class size". It doesn't matter to her- the people she cares about all send their kids to private school anyway.

[enlightenedgirl]

12:03 PM on 06/12/2010

With Meg and Carly infiltrating California, I really doubt voters won't see two CEO's coming to destroy their lives more. California has seen enough cuts, we are too the point where we have been cut to nothing and they want to cut more? You want to see PotHoles, come here.

One sold junk and made millions and the other was told to leave with a golden parachute of $34 million. Now is not a good time for CEO's and I can't wait until their campaigns crash and burn.

Does Meg or Carly even live in California? Why are they here in the first place?

[Codefile]

09:26 PM on 07/07/2010

Corporate carpetbaggers! meG gets to learn how to vote....thats new for her!

[MikeLawson]

11:49 AM on 06/12/2010

Jerry Brown is the conservative in this race, make no mistake. I can't count how many Southwest flights I sat on with him while he was running Oakland. He was just an everyman, average joe and you didn't hear a pompous word from his mouth. I hope Jerry wins. California needs him after the mess the original teabaggers in California caused by getting Gray Davis recalled so that they could elect the "governator" who made a hellacious mess of the state.

[Cacey]

09:42 AM on 06/13/2010

Californians will also remember that when he was governor he lived in a one or two bedroom apartment a couple of blocks from the Capitol and often walked to work even though the state had budgeted several thousand a month for a mansion and had limos on standby. Brown is a working politico who actually is effective and doesn't rely on pomp and foto ops.

[vampbella09]

11:27 AM on 06/12/2010

Go Jerry go!!!

[Librick]

10:25 AM on 06/12/2010

Following the cue of her fearless leader, Palin, Meg will push for a debate on Facebook.

[Kateyras]

10:15 AM on 06/12/2010

Meg Whitman is going to buy herself a state, then buy herself a country. Thanks to the reichwing Supreme Court and their despicable Citizens United decision, it will now be a lot easier to do.

[enlightenedgirl]

12:08 PM on 06/12/2010

Isn't that the plan, to have the United States be one big Corporation? We the people have to stand up and vote so this doesn't happen worse than it already is. Can we impeach a member of the Supreme Court? Alito comes to mind, activist judge and all.

[calindi]

09:48 AM on 06/12/2010

He should get 10 ideas first.
Classic.
Stupid.

[3dtrix]

11:02 AM on 06/12/2010

He had more spot-on ideas 30 years ago than she'll ever have...

[3dtrix]

11:06 AM on 06/12/2010

Communications satellites? They'll never work...

[3dtrix]

11:07 AM on 06/12/2010

Electricity from the sun? What a crock...