CA: Whitman rejects debate at state GOP convention

SFGate.com ^ | 2/3/10 | Carla Marinucci

[NormsRevenge]

Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO, said Tuesday that she won't debate GOP challenger Steve Poizner in front of party activists at the state Republican convention next month but will debate him before deep-pocketed party donors in Orange County.

Whitman's campaign team said she will not debate Poizner, the state insurance commissioner, at the state party's convention March 12-14 in Santa Clara.

Hundreds of the party's most loyal activists, as well as candidates for all statewide offices and for a U.S. Senate seat in California, will attend the three-day gathering.

State GOP Chairman Ron Nehring said months ago that he wanted to arrange debates for GOP candidates - including Whitman and Poizner - as a way to fire up the party's base and showcase Republican candidates' ideas for solving the state's problems including its budget, taxes and jobs creation.

Poizner spokesman Jarrod Agen said the commissioner has agreed to that debate. But Whitman spokeswoman Sarah Pompei said talk of a convention debate was informal, adding that her candidate has agreed to debate Poizner in Orange County March 15, the day after the GOP convention closes.

"Our campaign has said - and has been very clear - that the first debate Meg will be in is March 15 with New Majority California after the filing deadline for candidates running for governor has been set," said Pompei.

[NormsRevenge]

first debate Meg will be in is March 15 with New Majority California after the filing deadline for candidates

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New Majority California, part of the 'Moderate Socialist' movement that has stabbed GoP conservatives and taxpayers in the back with glee and disdain at the same time.

W.A.S.S.

[ansel12]

Meg Whitman: Romney handpicked me and "I'm A Huge Fan Of Van Jones"

[Oldexpat]

Whitman is a terrible candidate for the GOP. She is Arnold lite and will only succeed in prolonging the agony. If we can’t have a real conservative, then we are better off with Brown who will wreck things in short order.
We may move our residence out of CA next year. Move to a more tax friendly enviroment. In the meantime we are differing all taxable events in our financial lives.

[ontap]

Must be a Rino if she’s hiding her beliefs!!!

[originalbuckeye]

Agree. So sad for California. It is beautiful country with ugly people running it into the ground. Sadly I too think Whitman will be Arnold lite. I cringe every time I hear California's woes blamed on Republicans because Arnold is Governor. Never mind that the Dems have very other major and most of the minor roles in the governance of California.

[resistance]

You might want to rethink delaying taxable events. Taxes are going up...

[originalbuckeye]

PS-We left California in September after nineteen years living there.

[Diogenesis]

• CA: Whitman rejects debate at state GOP convention

  SFGate.com ^ | 2/3/10 | Carla Marinucci

  Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO, said Tuesday that she won't debate GOP challenger Steve Poizner in front of party activists at the state Republican convention next month but will debate him before deep-pocketed party donors in Orange County. Whitman's campaign team said she will not debate Poizner, the state insurance commissioner, at the state party's convention March 12-14 in Santa Clara. Hundreds of the party's most loyal activists, as well as candidates for all statewide offices and for a U.S. Senate seat in California, will attend the three-day gathering. State GOP Chairman Ron Nehring said months...

[Beagle8U]

Whitman is nothing but Mutt Romney in a dress. Anti-gun, pro queer, and pro abortion.

[MarkAccord]

Conservatives in California just don’t have the votes. All Hat, and no Cattle.

Whitman can win, and she will be a big improvement. Who is the last conservative that has won state-wide office in California?

[seenenuf]

New Majority is wolf in sheep’s clothing drooling
at the thought of riding a double yellow line. Hope they
get run over by those who remember R Reagan and what
he brought to the GOP.

[seenenuf]

New Majority is wolf in sheep’s clothing drooling
at the thought of riding a double yellow line. Hope they
get run over by those who remember R Reagan and what
he brought to the GOP.

[ansel12]

Jerry Brown may be better on guns than Whitman.

[Diogenesis]

Meg Whitman's campaign guru donated max to Obama -- while she advised McCain
"Even as former eBay CEO Meg Whitman acted as a high-profile backer and adviser to 2008
GOP presidential candidate John McCain, her top aide Henry Gomez -- now an eMeg
gubernatorial campaign majordomo -- donated the maximum to Democrat Barack Obama,
federal records show. Gomez, a trusted top insider in Republican Whitman's 2010 gubernatorial
campaign, donated the maximum $2,300 allowed to the general election campaign of Obama
in the days before -- and the weeks following -- the former eBay CEO's high profile televised
address to the GOP National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he accompanied Whitman around the..."

[luckystarmom]

Jerry Brown will give us universal health-care. That’s a bigger issue for me than guns. (I have a daughter with epilepsy.)

[NormsRevenge]

Welcome to FR.

Yeah, conservatives are big losers any way ya cut it , huh?

[NormsRevenge]

It’s called the Rockefeller wing of the GoP.. in action.. or should I say inaction except when they get elected and gain power and then they piss it away.

[Deb]

No Republican should even run for Governor. Walk away, guys and let the Democrats use California as an example of the country's future under their control.

Let Jerry Brown turn the state into San Francisco. And let the voters, who keep voting in the Socialist Assembly and Senate, live under the control of the unions, Marxist activists and environmentalists. Let them watch their expanded taxes go to the $100,000+ pensions of government retirees and global warming tyranny.

[MarkAccord]

Who is the last conservative that has won state-wide office in California?

[MarkAccord]

Yes, and all Republicans should also move out of the state as well.