Meg Whitman is essentially running on her experience as a CEO. And Karl Rove always says to attack your opponent on their strengths, so off goes Team Poizner:

“Now Meg Whitman is asking Californians to send her to Sacramento to clean up another multibillion dollar budget deficit,” said Poizner spokesman Kevin Spillane in the release. “If past performance is indicative of future results, Californians can’t afford Meg Whitman’s disastrous record of fiscal mismanagement.” (CapAlert 4/17/09

Well, I can’t disagree with that, but i would toss in thw whole slave labor issue.  but, in the GOP primary, that’s probably not as big of a sin as a bad acquisition of Skype.

But you Poizner dirt fans, don’t you worry. I’m sure we’ll be seeing some response over the next year.