Steve Poizner is rich. Just not as rich as Meg Whitman. So, instead of buying as much media time as money can buy, he’s attacking her for not running away from the public.
From Poizner’s perspective, Whitman is running towards the center, and he’s hoping to gather the Republican base. But the troubling thing is that if you are to listen to what Whitman is saying, you would have no clue which direction she would take the state. And frankly, her ads don’t help very much either. So far all we know is that she wants to lay off 40,000 state workers, but has no plan on how to maintain services or actually fix the budget issues.
Oh, and right, she would toss the environment to the mercy of the corporations, because regulating for environmental protection is too long-sighted. You know, we have to think for the now.
Any way, props to the Poizner campaign, this video is way more slick than I could have cobbled together with my aging MacBook.
I joined this (impressive so far) site just to be able to say how great this ad is against Whitman. Good on Poizner, he’s been a terrible candidate until this ad. The ad is brilliant because it doesn’t reach far at all. It’s just showing exactly what’s going on, with a little music in the background. If all were real in the world, the ad would have Meg completely by the short hairs and damn near crippled but I imagine her money will allow the campaign to wiggle out. For now though, this story of Meg Whitman avoiding reporters and questions is big and it could become humongous. What the heck is this lady going to be able to do in a debate? Watching Meg Whitman in this ad makes ME(!) want to run against her. Since I don’t really have a dog in the hunt, the demise of Meg’s poorly run, bloated campaign would suit me just fine. I’m a patron of political theatre.