{"id":11963,"date":"2010-06-30T01:38:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T01:38:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-30T01:39:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T01:39:23","slug":"whitman-fail-prefers-to-buy-not-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/30\/whitman-fail-prefers-to-buy-not-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitman FAIL: Prefers To Buy, Not Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meg Whitman has lots of money, so she&#8217;s been able to buy all the TV time that she would want. Why would she accept debates when she could just buy all that?<\/p>\n<p>Well, that doesn&#8217;t mean that she isn&#8217;t worried about appearances of rejecting all those debates. So, she&#8217;s gone on the offense. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The two have tangled publicly over debates, with both accepting one appearance together. Brown, a Democrat, has challenged Whitman to nine more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll look at some of these other debates. But I&#8217;ve got to tell you, he is talking about 10 debates. I would be glad if he had 10 ideas to fix California,&#8221; Whitman said to applause from the 75-strong audience. (<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/06\/meg-whitman-hearts-jobs-atvs.html\">LA Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, what are her ideas? Well, I&#8217;ll let Arnold Schwarzenegger summarize her &#8220;bogus talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He didn&#8217;t mention her name, but in brief remarks at the Los Angeles Press Club&#8217;s annual awards gala on Sunday night, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger swiped at Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, calling her proposal to eliminate 40,000 state worker positions &#8220;bogus talk&#8221; and praising journalists for asking where those cuts would be made.(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/06\/schwarzenegger-jabs-at-whitman.html#ixzz0sHt9wgkF\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whitman doesn&#8217;t have the ideas, and that which she has are &#8220;bogus.&#8221; Sounds about right. &nbsp;Nonetheless, she&#8217;s got money, so the whole Buy It Now Plan is still in operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meg Whitman has lots of money, so she&#8217;s been able to buy all the TV time that she would want. Why would she accept debates when she could just buy all that?<\/p>\n<p>Well, that doesn&#8217;t mean that she isn&#8217;t worried about appearances of rejecting all those debates. So, she&#8217;s gone on the offense. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The two have tangled publicly over debates, with both accepting one appearance together. Brown, a Democrat, has challenged Whitman to nine more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll look at some of these other debates. But I&#8217;ve got to tell you, he is talking about 10 debates. I would be glad if he had 10 ideas to fix California,&#8221; Whitman said to applause from the 75-strong audience. (<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/06\/meg-whitman-hearts-jobs-atvs.html\">LA Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, what are her ideas? Well, I&#8217;ll let Arnold Schwarzenegger summarize her &#8220;bogus talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He didn&#8217;t mention her name, but in brief remarks at the Los Angeles Press Club&#8217;s annual awards gala on Sunday night, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger swiped at Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, calling her proposal to eliminate 40,000 state worker positions &#8220;bogus talk&#8221; and praising journalists for asking where those cuts would be made.(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/06\/schwarzenegger-jabs-at-whitman.html#ixzz0sHt9wgkF\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whitman doesn&#8217;t have the ideas, and that which she has are &#8220;bogus.&#8221; Sounds about right. &nbsp;Nonetheless, she&#8217;s got money, so the whole Buy It Now Plan is still in operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[204],"tags":[415,6430,4467],"class_list":["post-11963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-204","tag-415","tag-6430","tag-4467"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-36X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}