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CA: Whitman rejects debate at state GOP convention
SFGate.com ^
| 2/3/10
| Carla Marinucci
Posted on 02/03/2010 9:43:05 AM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: ca2010; california; debate; hidingrino; newmajority; rejects; rino; rinoafraid; rinos; rinounderrock; romney; romneyinadress; stenchofromney; whitman
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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.
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:46:58 AM PST
by
ansel12
(anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.)
To: ansel12
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.
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:51:23 AM PST
by
Oldexpat
To: NormsRevenge
Must be a Rino if she’s hiding her beliefs!!!
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:52:01 AM PST
by
ontap
To: Oldexpat
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.
To: Oldexpat
You might want to rethink delaying taxable events. Taxes are going up...
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:55:37 AM PST
by
resistance
(abandon all hope and reason, become a democrat)
To: Oldexpat
PS-We left California in September after nineteen years living there.
To: NormsRevenge
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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...
To: ansel12
Whitman is nothing but Mutt Romney in a dress. Anti-gun, pro queer, and pro abortion.
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:58:21 AM PST
by
Beagle8U
(Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
To: NormsRevenge
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?
To: NormsRevenge
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.
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:58:45 AM PST
by
seenenuf
( PREPARE TO BE TESTED!)
To: NormsRevenge
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.
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:58:51 AM PST
by
seenenuf
( PREPARE TO BE TESTED!)
To: Oldexpat
Jerry Brown may be better on guns than Whitman.
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:59:23 AM PST
by
ansel12
(anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.)
To: NormsRevenge
To: ansel12
Jerry Brown will give us universal health-care. That’s a bigger issue for me than guns. (I have a daughter with epilepsy.)
To: MarkAccord
Welcome to FR.
Yeah, conservatives are big losers any way ya cut it , huh?
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posted on
02/03/2010 10:11:17 AM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
To: seenenuf
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.
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posted on
02/03/2010 10:13:00 AM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
To: NormsRevenge
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.
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posted on
02/03/2010 10:14:23 AM PST
by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: NormsRevenge
Who is the last conservative that has won state-wide office in California?
To: Deb
Yes, and all Republicans should also move out of the state as well.
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