Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman go head-to-head

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Source: Los Angeles Times

In a blustery and vigorous first debate, gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown dueled Tuesday over their differing solutions to California's dire problems, with Whitman slighting Brown as a tool of labor unions and Brown excoriating her as a billionaire running for office to benefit the rich.

From start to finish, the one-hour debate was a distillation of the months of the general election race, its tone set by an early question about how each would grapple with the state's $19-billion budget deficit. After Democrat Brown said he would bring all parties together, Republican Whitman seized on his vow.

"Mr. Brown talked about bringing people together," she said. "It will be a meeting of all the special interests and the unions who are there to collect their IOUs from the campaign that they have funded."

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Brown, the attorney general, responded with a jab at Whitman's proposed eradication of the capital gains tax, a move he said was "targeted to billionaires like Ms. Whitman and millionaires."

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-governor-debate-20100929,0,6937811,full.story

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On October 12, the next debate will take place at Dominican University of California, and former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw will moderate.

Another report: "California Gubernatorial Candidates Meet in First Debate" from NY Times.

[K8-EEE]

1. Jerry kicked ass!

OMG she's so awful -- even Republicans can't stand her and surely there cannot be one Californian not sick to death of her constant, grating radio ads!

[WheelWalker]

3. May it be so.

[napi21]

4. I HOPE you're right but why are the poll #'s so tight? nt

[K8-EEE]

5. Well, she's spend more than anybody in history and he's ahead

And after the debates -- will be even more ahead.

[Patchuli]

2. Jerry kicked Meggy's billionaire butt

She looked like she was going to cry a couple of times...

She also answered the same way he did on several issues. So why in the heck after 7 years of a lousy Repub governor (who can now go back to making B movies) would we pick another inexperienced wealthy Repub whose big deal is to deliver more tax cuts to the state's wealthy? This over a guy who ran this state just fine when I was quite young? NO to Meggers!

[Alameda]

6. What about her lack of votes for years and years???

where is her civic sense of duty? No time to vote in almost 30 years.....?

[Patchuli]

7. She was after money then

she's got it now. So ~now~ it's about power. eeewwuu....

I think it should be a requirement to hold office. I am sure that even the Gropenator voted.