Posted by Jon Fleischman at 12:00 am on May 17, 2010 1 Comment
What do you do when you are running for the Republican
nomination for Governor, and despite the fact that you have
invested large amounts of your own personal fortune in the race,
you are being run over by a candidate whose wallet is thicker,
looks to be outspending you by as much as four-to-one, and started
spending money very early — building up a huge lead going into the
final stretch?
The answer is that you do everything, of course.
Everything has included a campaign for Steve Poizner that has used
differences between he and Meg Whitman on immigration to drive down
her positive numbers with GOP primary voters, throwing out there
Whitman’s connections with Wall Street financiers Goldman Sachs as
well, as well as highlighting Whitman’s deplorable voting
record. But despite all of these things being hurled
into the public marketplace by Poizner’s
campaign, little did we know that with all of these various hits on
Whitman, Poizner still was holding back the proverbial "kitchen… Read More