Whitman-Brown debate: Skirmishes over maid

October 2nd, 2010, 1:25 pm
Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter

Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown held their second debate, sponsored by Univision, today in Fresno – it was scheduled to run from 11 a.m. to noon but apparently audio problems cause a delay. Good thing they didn’t air it live. A tape delay of the event will be aired at 4 p.m. on Univision with English and Spanish closed-caption subtitles.

In any event, it’s over now, after tense skirmishing over Whitman’s hiring and firing of an illegal immigrant maid, which the Republican says she didn’t learn was here illegally for the first nine years of her employment.

David Siders of the Sacramento Bee blogged the debate live. He gave this account of the an exchange over the housekeeper issue:
“Why did you not show compassion for this longtime employee?â€