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  • Whitman welfare ads: Demonizing the poor?

    08/23/2010 7:57:04 AM PDT · by SmithL · 31 replies · 1+ views
    Contra Costa Times ^ | 8/23/10 | Steve Harmon
    SACRAMENTO -- Welfare advocates are criticizing Meg Whitman for ratcheting up her rhetoric against welfare recipients as she rails against waste, fraud and abuse in state government. In a one-minute radio ad that Whitman recently began airing, she touts her plan to create a statewide grand jury to root out waste, fraud and abuse, promising to send to jail anyone "caught robbing the taxpayers." She mentions a state Legislative Analyst's report that found that 150 staffers in the Department of Education are working on programs that it no longer administers, and $3.4 million spent by CalTrans on a single rest...