Thread: VIDEO : ECHO, Jerry Brown compares NutMeg to Arnold

VIDEO : ECHO, Jerry Brown compares NutMeg to Arnold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw_0a54S ... r_embedded

(10-19) 16:12 PDT Sacramento, Calif. (AP) --

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown began airing a campaign ad Tuesday casting his rival as a political clone of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a comparison Meg Whitman promptly dismissed by saying most of the governor's experience came in Hollywood and not "the real world."

The 60-second ad shows side-by-side footage of Whitman and Schwarzenegger making similar comments about their business experience, independence and leadership styles.

Brown's statewide ad is a direct attempt to tie Whitman to Schwarzenegger, a reform-minded political outsider who has fallen out of favor with voters as California's budget troubles have worsened. It follows up on one of the state attorney general's key campaign themes — that Californians have already experimented with a political novice and the experiment has been to the detriment of the state.

Whitman responded to the ad by telling reporters in Oakland that Schwarzenegger had good ideas but did not execute them well. The billionaire former eBay chief executive also said the ad failed to acknowledge their different backgrounds — his as an actor, hers as an experienced businesswoman.

"Our backgrounds are entirely different, and I bring a lifetime of common sense from the real world of running businesses and large organizations and creating jobs," Whitman said after touring an elementary school. "Gov. Schwarzenegger did a number of good things, but he was primarily an actor, he was primarily investor, and I think missed a lot of the key things that could have been done."

Whitman said that if she's elected, she would appoint the right people in her cabinet, focus on addressing a small number of issues and bring "real financial leadership" to California.

Whitman has repeatedly sought to distance herself from Schwarzenegger since entering the race, sensing that the two could be seen as too similar because they are both Republicans campaigning on a reform platform and whose first run for public office was for governor.

She has criticized Schwarzenegger in the past for failing to follow through on plans to streamline state government, improve public education and reform the state's budgeting process.

This summer, she blamed California's record-long budget impasse on Schwarzenegger, saying what the state was "suffering from is a tremendous lack of leadership in Sacramento." She also criticized his trade mission to Asia while the state budget remained unresolved.

But that hasn't stopped Brown from trying to link the two on the campaign trail.

At a rally with President Bill Clinton in San Jose on Sunday, Brown described Whitman as a political novice who failed to vote yet wants to start at the top of government.

"If you went into any business in America and you said, 'Here's my resume, it's blank,' they wouldn't even hire you for one of the middle positions or maybe one of the bottom positions, let alone 'I want to be the big boss,'" Brown said to a cheering crowd of mostly college students.

In one segment of Brown's ad, Schwarzenegger says, "insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Whitman's comment differs only slightly: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for different results."

In another spot, Schwarzenegger proclaims, "I entered this office beholden to no one except you," while Whitman says, "I will owe my office to no one but you."

Whitman can only distance herself so much from the Republican governor because many of her top campaign officials have worked for or advised Schwarzenegger. That includes Whitman's campaign chairman, former Republican Gov. Pete Wilson, who was one of Schwarzenegger's most important political mentors.

Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear declined to comment on the ad or Whitman's criticism of the governor.

"The campaigns are going to go at each other. They're going to bring us into it from time to time, but it's just not something people hired us to do — to analyze their ads or their platforms," McLear said. "They hired us to try to solve problems, and that's what we're doing."

He added that Schwarzenegger had recently won approval in the state Legislature for pension reforms and a stronger rainy day fund, which will go before voters in 2012.

He also supported an independent redistricting commission and an open primary system, reforms approved by voters that could bring more moderate politicians to Sacramento and lessen the partisanship.

Asked about the ad at a state capitol event where he was promoting clean cars, Schwarzenegger quipped that his "delivery of the lines was much better in the commercial than hers."

Schwarzenegger has not endorsed either candidate and so far has mostly refrained from commenting on the race. He is scheduled to appear with both candidates next week at the California Women's Conference for a conversation about the challenges facing the state.


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You can call Whitman bobblehead, nutmeg or anything else you can think of, but SHES THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE. We need Republicans in office, not Democrats. We must vote Republican. Period.

Originally Posted by USA_born

You can call Whitman bobblehead, nutmeg or anything else you can think of, but SHES THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE. We need Republicans in office, not Democrats. We must vote Republican. Period.

I agree with you and i was going to vote for Whitman. Now i don't know. She lost me with her "Tough as Nails" campaign during the primary. I voted for her then, but now I am not so sure.

Meg 2010 Radio AD: "Tough As Nails"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVheLuooLUw

Whitman Spanish Ad Against Arizona Law SB 1070 (Subtitled)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qJNPmll0ss

Spanish Speaking Station Covers Whitman's Hypocrisy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qJNPmll0ss

Arnie also had a democratic legislature.

This story is taken from Sacbee / Capitol and California / Governor 2010


Whitman, Brown try to link each other to Schwarzenegger
dsiders@sacbee.com
Published Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010


Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown have found a new way to win voters' hearts: compare the other to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the embattled incumbent whose popularity is in the tank.

Brown, the Democratic nominee for governor, started airing a TV ad Tuesday sampling video clips of Schwarzenegger and Whitman, years apart, making sometimes-verbatim appeals about their qualifications and ideas. It suggests the Republican governor failed in office and Whitman would too.

Whitman's campaign returned fire within hours, saying Brown, on certain environmental and tax policies, is the candidate more like Schwarzenegger.

It was a lot of dumping for one day on the lame duck governor. And it all could make for awkward conversation next week, when the three of them are scheduled to appear together on a stage in Long Beach for a discussion about governing.

Still, if the use of Schwarzenegger as a punching bag was in any way surprising, it is only that it took so long. The governor's approval rating is a near record-low 23 percent, about matching Gov. Gray Davis' mark in 2003, the year he was recalled and replaced – by Schwarzenegger.

Brown likely had the advertisement "in the can for some time," said Larry Gerston, a political science professor at San Jose State University, saving its release for two weeks before Election Day.

In it, Brown depicts Whitman as an echo of Schwarzenegger. She wants to "build a new California." He wanted to rebuild it. Both politicians "don't owe anyone anything" and believe governing is "all about leadership."

Said Schwarzenegger, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

Ditto Whitman, except where Schwarzenegger said "expecting," she said "hoping for."

Schwarzenegger, the occasional jab notwithstanding, has largely stayed out of the race. He has neither endorsed nor been asked to endorse either candidate to succeed him.

Asked at the Capitol on Tuesday about the ad and the pummeling he's taking, Schwarzenegger told reporters only, "Well, I think that my delivery of the lines was much better in the commercial than hers."

At a campaign stop in Oakland, Whitman acknowledged some of her campaign statements are ones Schwarzenegger once delivered.

She said that is because Schwarzenegger "had exactly the right ideas," but his tenure "was not as successful as he or we had hoped."

Like Whitman, Schwarzenegger had no political experience when he was elected in 2003. He touted his experience managing investments and his acting career.

Whitman relies on some of the same advisers Schwarzenegger did, and like Schwarzenegger, she says an outsider with business experience could reform Sacramento.

But the former eBay CEO said her background is "entirely different," and that as governor he "missed a lot of the key things that could have been done."

Whitman has been critical of Schwarzenegger throughout the campaign, saying she would live in Sacramento (Schwarzenegger doesn't) and know lawmakers by name (he had them wear name tags once). She criticized his decision not to defend Proposition 8, California's voter-approved same-sex marriage ban, from challenges in court.

Brown, the state attorney general, stood with Schwarzenegger in not defending the measure.

Whitman spokeswoman Andrea Jones Rivera pointed out that Brown, like Schwarzenegger, supported Proposition 1A, the failed measure that sought last year to extend increases on auto, sales and income taxes.

But Brown, too, has been critical of the sitting governor.

He told The Bee last month, "I think the inexperience of our current governor led to the debacles that we've seen, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised, if my opponent wins, you might see a repeat of that."

By saying as much in a TV ad, Brown is likely bidding to attract Democrats who were once enticed to vote for Schwarzenegger because of his status as a political outsider, "telling them, 'Don't make that mistake twice,' " said Thad Kousser, a political science professor at the University of California, San Diego.

He doubted its effectiveness, however. Though Schwarzenegger's approval rating is low, he is not disdained in such a way that voters are likely to react emotionally to an ad invoking him, Kousser said.

"Very few people hate Arnold," he said.

Hate to say it but this pair is crazier than Laurel and Hardy, if I didn't live here in CA I would be laughing my a** off.

How do we get such clowns?