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Meg Whitman Assailed For Lying in Radio Ads (While dodging tonight's debate)
By Sgt. York | 10/28/09 | 11:38 PM EDT | 1 Comment
Meg Whitman was lit up by the LA Times tonight for inaccurate and misleading radio ads about the state budget. (Meg Whitman's Radio Whoppers)
The article quotes Republicans in it to assure balance - but it raises an even larger question - if Whitman can not get the facts straight with a script, how can she Govern?
And, it makes sense that she is avoiding debates - either she is lying or she has not had enough time to study. Meantime, Professor Campbell and Commissioner Poizner are debating state policy while her EMeg is avoiding serious questions and serious reporters.
The article is about an Hour old by George Skelton.
I have lifted a few money quotes from the article:
"Did you know," Whitman asks radio listeners, "that in the last 10 years, state spending has gone up 80%?"
Well, no, I did not know that. So I did some checking.
"They're completely wrong when they say that," replied state Finance Director Mike Genest, a conservative former budget consultant for Senate Republicans.
Ok - that got my attention, but the hits kept pouring in:
Here is some more data from the state finance department that refutes the "spend more" charge: Under Schwarzenegger, the average annual growth in general fund spending has been only 1.3% -- compared to 6.3% for Gray Davis, 4.6% for Wilson, 8% for George Deukmejian, 12.7% for Jerry Brown, 13.6% for Reagan and 11.7% for Pat Brown.
And there are far more facts laid out in the article.
Thus, the latest installment in the Meg Whitman Epic Fail campaign. She is just not ready for Prime-Time.
TAGS: Meg Whitman, George Skelton
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Ah, but it much, much more than "unbefitting bunk" as George Skelton calls Whitman's radio ad. This strikes at the core of who Meg Whitman really is.
There are at least two aspects that are very, very telling of who Meg Whitman is. Meg Whitman seems to have given complete control of campaign communications over to senior staffers. In doing this, she has not issued a zero tolerance mandate that all campaign communications be clean as a hounds tooth.
In this particular ad designed to create a "gee whiz" reaction, she could not have avoided sensing numbers that were featured that did not pass the smell test. She could have and should have said, "wait a minute, let's make sure these numbers are correct" That makes her complicit in the first order. She failed to exercise CEO oversight that any CEO worthy of more than figure head status would have done. This is a management incompetence issue.
This gets to the matter of personal integrity. As you know, I was part of a campaign communications team. As such, I would be fed information laden with numbers and so-called facts. I very, very carefully checked numbers and facts. If anything was amiss, I stepped away from the whole piece and refused to massage it into my own style of writing. This is personal integrity.
Meg Whitman fails on either the competent manager front or on the personal integrity front or both. There is no two ways about that.s
There are those apologists who would want to dismiss this as a small thing and/or business as usual in the political world. But trust doesn't work like that.
"He that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much"--Luke 16:10.
One who is dishonest in small matters is not really honest in anything.
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