Speaking at a news conference in San Diego, Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman said she will defend California’s Proposition 8 if she becomes governor next year.
Aw, hells no she di’nt!
Oh, yes she did.
In her own words, Whitman said, “The issue right now is, as I understand it, is ‘Will Proposition 8 have the appropriate support to actually make an appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals?’ And I think the governor, the attorney general today has to defend the constitution and has to enable the judicial process to go along and has to enable an appeal to go through. So if I was governor, I would give that ruling standing to be able to appeal to the circuit court.”
Wow. In one fell swoop, she managed to insult current Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (also a Republican) as well as current Attorney General Jerry Brown, who is Whitman’s Democratic opponent in the election for the governor’s seat.
Scary thing is, Whitman’s announcement came moments after The revelation comes on the heels of Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley‘s similar announcement: if elected to the Attorney General’s office, he, too, will defend Prop H8.
Rather than speak about her own political prowess—which she’s clearly proven she has none of—Whitman chose instead to unleash a bitch-fest about Jerry Brown, her rival in the gubernatorial race. About Brown and their election face-off she quipped that the governors race is a “battle for the soul of California.” Oh puh-leeze.
Whitman continued, “Jerry Brown is a career politician,” [who] “fully endorsed the union agenda,” and “the unions are virtually running his campaign.” Their governor’s race, Meg said, would decide if “we going to continue to be owned by the union bosses that have a grasp as tight as I can imagine … or we are going to take our state back?” Whitman tied it up with a neat little bow, proclaiming that it will be, “just 74 days before Jerry Brown can retire.”
Not if the LGBTQA community has anything to say about it.
Come on, Girls; let’s stop the bitch.
If you enjoyed this article, please consider sharing it!
Frightening! Now I’m clear who I’ll vote for. Thanks for the article.
Hey Meg! You don’t support gay marriage? Fine! Don’t have one.
Does she think this will gain her supporters? What’s the deal? I guess her plan is to tap into the “7 million voters” that everyone whines about (those same voters who would deny us equal rights.) Screw all of y’all.
I’m going to be a Meg Whitman success story. betterCalifornia… Meg Whitman… U MAKE ME SICK…
Of COURSE she’ll defend Prop 8, duh! SHE IS AN EVIL REPUBLICAN!
Whitman can kiss my ass.
Nice time to move out of state. Connecticut, here come me and the gays!
No way =O
Imagine that, a candidate pandering for votes! Why bless my soul! Who ever heard of such a thing?
Yes, but Meg Whitman saying she would support a proposition that goes against the very nature of our constitution, goes way beyond just “pandering for votes”.
Meg and her party don’t believe in civil equity and civil liberties — they seek to regulate the bedrooms of all Americans, especially us gay ones, for they believe sex is ‘nasty’ and ‘sinful’, especially if not used specifically for procreation.
The fascist, fake-Christian right-wingers talk about gays taking over the world by “forcing” our sexuality and ourselves upon them, but the truth is not one of us would want to have sex with any of them. Barf!
NutMeg selling her soul for votes—what else is new??
On a more serious note, this BS demonstrates once again just how she would govern. One sell-out after another; she has no core values or philosophy underpinning her concepts of governance. All she advertises is that she makes money. Whoop de do!
We Californians deserve a better candidate coming from the Republican Party.
I’m voting for her.
They call her nutmeg for a reason.
Meg Whitman is a joke. She doesn’t vote, she hires illegal immigrants yet wants to oust them all from the country. Her own former housekeeper of nine years, undocumented immigrant Nicky Díaz Santillán, is living proof.
As an attorney in the Twin Cities (Minnesota), practicing in a handful of legal areas, your site is a benefit to my legal practice. I appreciate your good content. Good luck with your website!
A Hall