Meg Whitman

Gloria Allred Tries to Upend Mitt Romney, Seeking Allegedly Ugly Sealed Testimony From Staples Divorce Case 20 Years Ago

Update:The judge weighs in on the Allred-Romney-Stemberg hearing. See at bottom. Will the greatest October-surprise schemer in California history, attorney Gloria Allred, who trotted out Meg Whitman's housekeeper Nicky Diaz (actually in late September) before the 2010 election and instantly sank Wh ... More >>

Jane Junn: Poll Dancer

Top 10 Hot Chicks In The News 2010: No. 1, (Young) Meg Whitman (For Real)

Young Meg Whitman -- a certified hottie.​Ha! You thought it was going to be Lohan. No, too easy. We know "Fire Crotch" is a hottie, but we're all a little Lohan'd out. So we thought we'd surprise you for the holidays. So unwrap this: Behold, a much younger Meg Whitman back in the day. She wa ... More >>

Christmas Miracle: Garry South Admits He Was Wrong

Garry South regrets the error​During the governor's race, few Democrats were as pessimistic about Jerry Brown as Garry South was. South, who built his reputation on Gray Davis' campaign in 1998, repeatedly disparaged the Brown campaign and predicted a Meg Whitman victory.Amazingly, he has written ... More >>

How Steve Cooley Blew It: The Definitive Post-Mortem

Photo by Kevin ScanlonSteve Cooley: What went wrong​Note: We first ran this port-mortem back on Nov. 3. Now that Cooley's campaign is officially dead, it seems appropriate to recycle it, with a reaction below from Cooley consultant Kevin Spillane. Whatever the outcome of the attorney general's rac ... More >>

California Voters Support Big Government Spending -- Just Not When They Have To Pay For It

Rock & Roll LibraryWho could say no to a children's hospital?​Californians want to have their cake, eat it too, but sure as hell not pay for it after the 2010 state election, a new USC poll shows. "Twenty-million-dollar deficit BAD, health care and education GOOD!," said three of every four v ... More >>

California's 2012 Pot-Legalization Effort Gets A (Lame) Website

Another marijuana legalization effort in California seems likely: There's even a website.​Stoners, yes you can. No, Prop. 19, California's marijuana legalization initiative, didn't pass earlier this month. But there's time. And really, 2012, a presidential election year, is the big dance. As ... More >>

HALLOWEENY HOOTENANNY, CELEBITY EDITION

Meg Whitman Wants Nicky Diaz Deported, Also Wants To Make Coats From Puppies' Fur

Ted SoquiNicky Diaz​When the Nicky Diaz story broke, Meg Whitman steadfastly refused to say whether she thought her former housekeeper should be deported. It was a no-win situation. If she said yes, she looked cruel; if she said no, then she didn't believe in the rule of law.Whether that was the b ... More >>

LETTERS: MINKOW STINKOW

Many Californians Remain Undecided About Who To Vote For So Close To Election Day

Ted SoquiWill 'undecideds' break for Whitman?​The number of "undecideds" in California only two weeks before the big November election is huge. We're acting like kids with a bucket full of Halloween candy. Except this is serious business. According to the latest poll by the Public Policy Inst ... More >>

Great Moments In Innovation: OC Register Gives Meg Whitman Plastic Surgery Tips

OC RegisterColin Stewart has some advice for Meg Whitman​We have seen the future of journalism, and it involves the guy on the right giving out plastic surgery advice to politicians. Today's installment finds Colin Stewart, the Orange County Register's "innovation columnist," surveying plastic sur ... More >>

Meg Whitman Parrots Arnold Schwarzenegger In New Jerry Brown Ad

Update at 6:23 p.m. Arnold Schwarzenegger: plagiarism victim​Jerry Brown's campaign has posted a new TV spot (after the jump) that shows how much of Meg Whitman's rhetoric has been ripped off from Arnold Schwarzenegger. No word on how much money is behind the ad, but at a minute long, it seems unl ... More >>

Meg Whitman Campaign Releases Video Short On Jerry Brown's Love-Hate Bromance With Bill Clinton

Jerry Brown didn't make it as Bill Clinton's Vice President.​The Meg Whitman campaign couldn't just stand by as Jerry Brown basked in the saxophone glow of Bill Clinton. Oh no. The Republican's spinmeisters had to point out the irony in the former president's rally for Democratic opponent bro ... More >>

Lee Baca: Meg Whitman Doesn't Know What She's Talking About When It Comes To Jerry Brown And Crime

Lee Baca​Meg Whitman launched an attack ad on Thursday accusing Jerry Brown of being soft on crime. At today's press conference on Prop. 19, L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca fired back, saying Whitman "doesn't know what she's talking about."Brown has touted Baca's endorsement in pushing back against the Whit ... More >>

Bill Clinton Rallies College Students For Jerry Brown At UCLA

Ted SoquiJerry Brown addresses a rally at UCLA, flanked by Gavin Newsom and Bill Clinton​Not long ago, Jerry Brown listened to an old presidential debate between himself and Bill Clinton."It was very acrimonious," Brown said on Thursday. "I landed some very good punches and so did he."Brown said t ... More >>

(Video) L.A. Attorney Gloria Allred (And Client Nicky Diaz) Skewered On 'SNL'

NBCFake Allred with Nicky Diaz.​It seemed like nobody around here noticed, but attorney-to-the-disgruntled Gloria Allred was spoofed in the opening of this weekend's Saturday Night Live. The show was planned after Meg Whitman's Allred-fanned nannygate hit the news, and apparently before gubern ... More >>

Did Jerry Brown's Wife, Anne Gust Brown, Call Meg Whitman A Whore On LAPD Union Voicemail? Fox News' Jake Gibson Says Yes

UPI / Aaron KehoeJerry and Anne Gust Brown: Did she say "whore?"​Fox News producer Jake Gibson reported over the weekend that the person who famously called Meg Whitman a whore -- an utterance caught on-tape -- is none other than Jerry Brown's wife, Anne Gust Brown. True? We don't know. Do we ... More >>

Nicky Diaz Wants $6,210 From Meg Whitman; Says Whitman Didn't Buy A Present For Her Newborn

Ted SoquiNicky Diaz Santillan watches while her attorney, Gloria Allred, talks to the media​Updated below with Diaz Santillan's wage claim at 3:35 p.m.In the latest in the escalating war of words between Meg Whitman and her maid, Nicky Diaz Santillan took to the microphones today to say that the R ... More >>

Jerry Brown Sues Sikder Family, Owners Of Koi Restaurant, For 'Worker Exploitation' At Car Washes

​California Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown is pulling out all the stops in his quest for the Latino vote. After outing challenger Meg Whitman as a former employer of an undocumented housekeeper, on Monday he slapped the owners of TMZ hot-spot restaurant Koi for "worke ... More >>

Meg Whitman Has Plenty Of Company In Hiring Undocumented Help (Guinier, Baird, Feinstein): Here's Our Look At Foreign Domestics Throughout Modern Political History

​Revelations Wednesday that California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman employed an illegal immigrant as a maid (a multimillionaire in California with an undocumented housekeeper -- shocking!) had us thinking: Not all politicos have been derailed for hiring foreign domestics (Dianne Feinst ... More >>

Meg Whitman Aims The Stink Of Bell Salary Scandal At Jerry Brown: As Oakland Mayor He Had The State's Highest Paid City Administrator

Randy Bayne via Flickr​This summer Jerry Brown has been all over the Bell salary scandal, calling the millions in pay for city officials there "unbelievable," and "outrageous." He even sued, as Attorney General, to get cash back. His Republican opponent for California governor, Meg Whitman, is ca ... More >>

Jerry Brown With Gaffe Of Gaffes About Bill Clinton

​Suddenly a question that's always been asked about Jerry Brown is back in the forefront: What planet is he living on? This time, he's decided that publicly insulting former President Bill Clinton would be a good idea in a year when Democrats are dispirited and need some rousing from such pa ... More >>

Jerry Brown v. Meg Whitman: Back To Dead Heat

​About two weeks ago we told you how it seemed like Republican Meg Whitman had finally broken through against Democratic Attorney General Jerry Brown in the governor's race, opening an 8 point lead in a Rasmussen poll. But the race has already tightened.

What This Governor's Race Needs Is A Good Municipal Land-Use Dispute

​On the campaign trail, Meg Whitman has been telling a story about how it took eBay two and a half years to get a permit for a new building in Sunnyvale.She cites this as an example of California's burdensome regulatory environment, which she would streamline if she were elected governor.The folks ... More >>

Jerry Brown And Steve Cooley Merge Bell Investigations; Bipartisan Camera Mugging

Bell residents​Attorney General Jerry Brown and Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley put out a terse statement that was nevertheless incredibly intriguing: They'll be coordinating their investigations of potential voter fraud and public corruption in the city of Bell. The small ci ... More >>

Pot Advocates Have High Hopes For Jerry Brown In Gubernatorial Race: Meg Whitman Harshes Their Mellow

​Medical marijuana advocates who want to end the practice of eliminating job candidates and firing employees who use pot with a doctor's okay have high hopes that gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown will get elected and sign a law that stops the practices. In 2008 the legislature passed a bil ... More >>

Proponents Of Pot Legalization Initiative Get Higher ... Cash Amounts In Fund-Raising Efforts

​It's comforting to know that even as the campaign to legalize marijuana in California seems to be struggling in the polls (or not), the backers of November's Prop. 19 are still getting higher when it comes to raising cash. According to Associated Press, the proposition's main supporters hav ... More >>

A Short, Brisk Walk Down Hot-Dog Lane

Meg Whitman's Uphill Battle

She's fashionable as an outsider, but that guarantees nothing against Jerry Brown

Mama Grizzlies Come Out Of Hibernation for Whitman

Meg Whitman beat Steve Poizner by almost 40 points​Ruth Singlyn, 52, is a homemaker from Westlake Village. She never got involved in a political campaign until this year, when she decided she had to phone bank for Meg Whitman."She's a businesswoman and a mother," Singlyn said at the Whitman victor ... More >>

Proposition 15 fails miserably because California voters can't stomach paying to elect jerks

Wow, California voters really, really hate Proposition 15 and the idea of publicly financing political campaigns, despite the $105 million spent by Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner, and the up to $300 million Jerry Brown and Whitman will now spend thrashing each other.littlestar.infoWhose cash gets eat ... More >>

Jerry Brown Challenges Meg Whitman To 10 Town Hall Debates

​It didn't take long after Meg Whitman snatched the GOP nomination for fellow gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown to challenge her to ten town hall debates around the state to discuss employment, education, and the state's fiscal crisis. The Democrat argued that the town hall debates would bri ... More >>

Schwarzenegger's Tuesday Voting Attempt A Fail

​Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger got a do-over Tuesday morning when his ballot was rejected because he apparently voted for two U.S. Senate candidates instead of one (Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner?). The fail in Brentwood was caught on Fox 11 News live. The governor was apparently given two choices ... More >>

Stick A Fork in Steve Poizner: Field Poll Shows Him Down By 26

​The Republican gubernatorial primary is shaping up like a blowout basketball game. One team comes in heavily favored and jumps to a big early lead. The underdog puts up a fight in the third quarter and makes it interesting -- only to collapse utterly in the fourth.That's where we are with Steve P ... More >>

Immigration 'The Only Issue' For Tuesday's California Gubernatorial Primary

Republican frontrunner Meg Whitman.​The issue of immigration has "hijacked" the platforms of Republican gubernatorial hopefuls Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner as they head toward Tuesday's primary in California, and that could hurt the winner's efforts against Democrat Jerry Brown in November's ... More >>

Jerry Brown Leads Meg Whitman In Gubernatorial Race

​State Attorney Genreal Jerry Brown took the lead over businesswoman Meg Whitman in the USC College/Los Angeles Times Poll released over the weekend (PDF). He would take 44 percent of voters while Whitman would get 38 percent if the gubernatorial election were held now, according to the survey ... More >>

Phoenix Mayor Wants To Talk Immigration Reform In L.A. ... If Suns Win

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon.​Now that the Lakers are about to clinch the Western Conference championship, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon wants to change the terms of his bet on the series with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. As part of the new deal, he wants to come to L.A. and talk immigrati ... More >>

'Decline To State' Voters Grow In Numbers As Californians Flee Both Parties

​As California's June primary approaches a new report indicates that one in five Golden State voters have declined to state a party preference. The Republican party appears to be the biggest loser when the numbers are analyzed, but citizens appear to be unhappy with both sides, according to Ca ... More >>

Jerry Brown Rips Meg Whitman In Interview With 'Los Angeles' Magazine

​State Attorney General Jerry Brown took his time to declare his gubernatorial candidacy, has vowed he would engage in "no mudslinging," and has been fairly quiet against his rivals far, preferring to let his activities as California's top lawman grab headlines for him. But Democrat's gloves a ... More >>

Poll: Brown Benefits As Whitman and Poizner Battle

​A new PPIC poll out tonight shows Steve Poizner cutting sharply into Meg Whitman's lead in the Republican gubernatorial primary. The beneficiary, at the moment anyway, is Jerry Brown. In a general election matchup, Brown now leads Whitman 42-37. That's a 10-point swing from the last poll, taken i ... More >>

Mayor Villaraigosa: If Suns Win, We'll Take Sheriff Joe

​Now that Los Angeles is boycotting the state of Arizona, it seems odd for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to be offering a wager with the mayor of Phoenix over the NBA Western Conference Finals.Apparently the embargo doesn't cover that. But this year's bet is no mere exchange of Laker jerseys for Ariz ... More >>

Me Llamo Steve Poizner Y Quiero Su Apoyo

Steve Poizner has a message for that sliver of the electorate that speaks Spanish, votes Republican, opposes Pete Wilson and Prop. 187, but supports the Arizona immigration law:This is the political equivalent of a reverse triple backflip into a half somersault with no splash. English translation af ... More >>

Cooley, Delgadillo Strive For Top Billing In State Attorney General Race

District Attorney Steve Cooley.​While all eyes remain on California's gubernatorial race, particularly on the entertaining sniping between Republicans Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner, the June primary contest for state Attorney General is dishing up its own drama, with the anointed Republican fr ... More >>

Meg Whitman's Lead Down to 2 Points?

Steve Poizner was thought to be political roadkill earlier this year, having fallen as much as 50 points behind Meg Whitman for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. But with Whitman getting hammered on immigration (she declined to support the Arizona law) and her ties to Goldman Sachs, Poizner i ... More >>

Poizner Narrows the Gap With Whitman

​Republican gubernatorial underdog Steve Poizner has released an internal poll showing him trailing former eBay CEO Meg Whitman by a mere 10 points, 38-28.Public polling has shown Whitman leading by 40 points or more pretty much the whole way. But Whitman's strategist, Mike Murphy, did not dispute ... More >>

Gubernatorial Candidate Meg Whitman Boycotted Over Pro-Prop. 8 Stance

​A boycott of eBay and Meg Whitman is being organized following revelations that the gubernatorial candidate and former auction-site CEO has turned against same-sex marraige in her fight for the Republican nomination. Her pro-Prop. 8 stance comes despite having an executive assistant who is le ... More >>

As It Levels Off, Immigration Might Be 'So Last Year' As A Political Issue

​The foreign-born population of Los Angeles County peaked in 2007 and has declined since then as a result of a dragging economy that is no longer a magnet for global job-seekers, according to a report by USC's Population Dynamics Research Group. In fact, statewide, the immigrant population al ... More >>

Hottie video proves Meg Whitman's hairstyle must go. So how's she beating Jerry Brown in the Field Poll?

Sacramento bloggers and influence peddlers are buzzing like mad today over the new Field Poll (here's the San Diego Trib version) showing that Meg Whitman's massive $40 million radio and cable ad campaign for California governor 2010 has edged her three points past Democratic Attorney General Jerry ... More >>

Jerry Brown To Announce For Governor Tuesday

​California Attorney General Jerry Brown will announce his intentions to run for office Tuesday, the Sacramento Bee is reporting. Brown, who has no serious Democratic challengers, was making party leaders nervous by standing on the sidelines for so long as Republican Meg Whitman continued to ... More >>