{"id":12506,"date":"2010-09-15T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-15T01:53:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T01:53:31","slug":"meg-whitman-doesnt-like-meg-whitmans-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/15\/meg-whitman-doesnt-like-meg-whitmans-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Meg Whitman Doesn&#8217;t Like Meg Whitman&#8217;s Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width='280' height='169' align=right><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' \/><param name='allowscriptaccess' value='always' \/><param name='movie' value='http:\/\/www.cta.org\/Media\/Flash\/ctaEmbedVideo.swf?id=550d9109-e757-4b71-9bf4-00ad80c796bb&amp;site=http:\/\/www.cta.org' \/><\/object>Apparently Meg Whitman doesn&#8217;t like her own plans for California, or else why would she threaten to sue TV stations if they don&#8217;t hide her true ideas from the state:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is threatening to sue television stations that run a California Teachers Association ad attacking the candidate, calling the spot a lie.<\/p>\n<p>The Whitman campaign today said some stations have pulled the ad. The CTA said it is trying to confirm that. &#8230; CTA spokeswoman Sandra Jackson said the ad&#8217;s claim relies on Whitman&#8217;s plan to cut $15 billion in state funding overall. She said cuts to education typically make up about half of total budget cuts. (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/09\/whitman-lawyer-tells-tv-statio.html#mi_rss=Capitol%20Alert#ixzz0zYBpTrj7\">SacBee<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the letter, Whitman&#8217;s attorney (and attorney for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.couragecampaign.org\/page\/content\/20for20onActBlue\/\">proposed GOP Dirty Tricks<\/a>) said that she hadn&#8217;t specifically cited education as a target for cuts. &nbsp;But, you know what, there are pretty little magazines that you can control, and then there is the real world. &nbsp;If Meg Whitman really wants to cut another $15 Billion, where does she think that is going to come from? She&#8217;s not doing anything about tax loopholes, heaven forbid.<\/p>\n<p>Her pound of flesh is coming from California&#8217;s most vulnerable, and she will extract for the short-term from the promise that California holds for the long haul. She will slash and burn through the education budget and call herself some sort of champion of the people.<\/p>\n<p>And it will probably work, because she has money, and these days the one with the money rules, right? Right?<\/p>\n<p>As for this pathetic attempt, TV stations shouldn&#8217;t be bullied by flimsy claims. If Meg Whitman doesn&#8217;t like the truth, how about she explain what she means. For real this time, not the blather we&#8217;ve heard before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><object width='280' height='169' align=right><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' \/><param name='allowscriptaccess' value='always' \/><param name='movie' value='http:\/\/www.cta.org\/Media\/Flash\/ctaEmbedVideo.swf?id=550d9109-e757-4b71-9bf4-00ad80c796bb&amp;site=http:\/\/www.cta.org' \/><embed src='http:\/\/www.cta.org\/Media\/Flash\/ctaEmbedVideo.swf?id=550d9109-e757-4b71-9bf4-00ad80c796bb&amp;site=http:\/\/www.cta.org' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' width='280' height='169' align=right><\/embed><\/object>Apparently Meg Whitman doesn&#8217;t like her own plans for California, or else why would she threaten to sue TV stations if they don&#8217;t hide her true ideas from the state:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is threatening to sue television stations that run a California Teachers Association ad attacking the candidate, calling the spot a lie.<\/p>\n<p>The Whitman campaign today said some stations have pulled the ad. The CTA said it is trying to confirm that. &#8230; CTA spokeswoman Sandra Jackson said the ad&#8217;s claim relies on Whitman&#8217;s plan to cut $15 billion in state funding overall. She said cuts to education typically make up about half of total budget cuts. (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/09\/whitman-lawyer-tells-tv-statio.html#mi_rss=Capitol%20Alert#ixzz0zYBpTrj7\">SacBee<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the letter, Whitman&#8217;s attorney (and attorney for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.couragecampaign.org\/page\/content\/20for20onActBlue\/\">proposed GOP Dirty Tricks<\/a>) said that she hadn&#8217;t specifically cited education as a target for cuts. &nbsp;But, you know what, there are pretty little magazines that you can control, and then there is the real world. &nbsp;If Meg Whitman really wants to cut another $15 Billion, where does she think that is going to come from? She&#8217;s not doing anything about tax loopholes, heaven forbid.<\/p>\n<p>Her pound of flesh is coming from California&#8217;s most vulnerable, and she will extract for the short-term from the promise that California holds for the long haul. She will slash and burn through the education budget and call herself some sort of champion of the people.<\/p>\n<p>And it will probably work, because she has money, and these days the one with the money rules, right? Right?<\/p>\n<p>As for this pathetic attempt, TV stations shouldn&#8217;t be bullied by flimsy claims. If Meg Whitman doesn&#8217;t like the truth, how about she explain what she means. For real this time, not the blather we&#8217;ve heard before.<\/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":[],"tags":[415,4467],"class_list":["post-12506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-415","tag-4467"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3fI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12506","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=12506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}