{"id":11438,"date":"2010-04-01T20:32:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T20:32:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-01T20:32:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T20:32:11","slug":"dont-let-meg-whitman-break-her-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/01\/dont-let-meg-whitman-break-her-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Let Meg Whitman Break Her Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caliticians:<\/p>\n<p>In mid March,<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/top-stories\/ci_14667298?nclick_check=1\">Meg Whitman made a promise to the voters of California to release her tax returns.<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/elections\/ci_14743207\"> But she just broke that promise and flip-flopped on releasing her tax returns.<\/a> Despite her TV ads telling us otherwise, it&#8217;s clear Meg Whitman neither means what she says or says what she means.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In recent days, the <i>San Jose Mercury News<\/i>, <i>Monterey County Herald<\/i>, <i>Vallejo Times Herald<\/i>, and <i>Marin Independent Journal<\/i> &nbsp;have all called on Meg Whitman to keep her promise and release her tax returns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is Meg Whitman flip-flopping on releasing her tax returns?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We simply don&#8217;t know what Meg is hiding. But now, you can help us find out.<\/p>\n<p>Today we are beginning a coordinated action campaign to demand that Meg Whitman release her tax returns, and we will be doing it out in the open-unlike Meg-in a place where everyone can see it: on <strong>Meg Whitman&#8217;s Facebook page.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MegWhitman\">Meg Whitman&#8217;s Facebook page<\/a> right now<\/strong>, become a fan of her campaign (Don&#8217;t worry, you can remove yourself from her fan list a few minutes later!), and then leave a comment on her wall asking Meg why she hasn&#8217;t released her tax returns.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples of possible comments are:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meg, why haven&#8217;t you released your tax returns? California voters deserve to see what you are hiding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Or<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meg, please don&#8217;t break your promise to let California voters see your tax returns. We want to know who we are voting for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s as simple as that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two weeks from today is tax day. We all have to file our tax returns and we are calling on Meg Whitman to stop flip-flopping and release her tax returns by April 15.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MegWhitman\">Meg Whitman&#8217;s Facebook page<\/a> right now, and help us hold Meg Whitman accountable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much! We couldn&#8217;t do it without you!<\/p>\n<p>Team Level the Playing Field<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caliticians:<\/p>\n<p>In mid March,<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/top-stories\/ci_14667298?nclick_check=1\">Meg Whitman made a promise to the voters of California to release her tax returns.<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/elections\/ci_14743207\"> But she just broke that promise and flip-flopped on releasing her tax returns.<\/a> Despite her TV ads telling us otherwise, it&#8217;s clear Meg Whitman neither means what she says or says what she means.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In recent days, the <i>San Jose Mercury News<\/i>, <i>Monterey County Herald<\/i>, <i>Vallejo Times Herald<\/i>, and <i>Marin Independent Journal<\/i> &nbsp;have all called on Meg Whitman to keep her promise and release her tax returns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is Meg Whitman flip-flopping on releasing her tax returns?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We simply don&#8217;t know what Meg is hiding. But now, you can help us find out.<\/p>\n<p>Today we are beginning a coordinated action campaign to demand that Meg Whitman release her tax returns, and we will be doing it out in the open-unlike Meg-in a place where everyone can see it: on <strong>Meg Whitman&#8217;s Facebook page.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MegWhitman\">Meg Whitman&#8217;s Facebook page<\/a> right now<\/strong>, become a fan of her campaign (Don&#8217;t worry, you can remove yourself from her fan list a few minutes later!), and then leave a comment on her wall asking Meg why she hasn&#8217;t released her tax returns.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples of possible comments are:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meg, why haven&#8217;t you released your tax returns? California voters deserve to see what you are hiding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Or<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meg, please don&#8217;t break your promise to let California voters see your tax returns. We want to know who we are voting for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s as simple as that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two weeks from today is tax day. We all have to file our tax returns and we are calling on Meg Whitman to stop flip-flopping and release her tax returns by April 15.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MegWhitman\">Meg Whitman&#8217;s Facebook page<\/a> right now, and help us hold Meg Whitman accountable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much! We couldn&#8217;t do it without you!<\/p>\n<p>Team Level the Playing Field<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4881,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87],"tags":[2664,27,4467,60],"class_list":["post-11438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-87","tag-2664","tag-27","tag-4467","tag-60"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Yu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4881"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}