Whitman Exhibits Less Than Sportsman-like Behavior

Today, on October 26, the competing gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown met face-to-face most likely for the last time until the governor election. The candidates met in Long Beach, California along with current governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger for Maria Shriver's annual Women's Conference. Carla Marinucci, author of the San Francisco Chronicle article titled "Meg Whitman says she won't abandon negative ads," describes that:

Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman drew a chorus of boos from the capacity crowd at a major women's gathering here Tuesday after going on the attack against her Democratic opponent Jerry Brown and refusing to withdraw her negative television ads, as Brown said he would, for the rest of the campaign.

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Even though most of the crowd was comprised of women, the crowd was not happy with Whitman because, while Brown agreed to stop the vicious and destructive advertisements on his end, Whitman did not want to retract these advertisements because she felt that she needed to protect her image with her destructive ads. Jerry Brown's willingness to retract his destructive ads displayed a sense of admirable integrity that all political candidates should possess. Whitman's unwillingness to retract the advertisements displayed insecurity on her part and showed that she really does have something to hide and she wants to make sure that she is on the attack so that others, especially Brown, don't attack her and reveal whatever she is attempting to hide or feels insecure about.