Press Release, for Immediate Release
Contact: Jarrod Agen (916) 325-6800
Meg Whitman Caught Stretching The Facts In TV Ad
Media Picks Up On Whitman’s Inaccurate TV Ad:
Whitman “Immediately Hit A Bump By Misstating” How Long She Has Lived In California. “Republican Meg Whitman debuted her first television ad Thursday in her campaign for California governor, but she immediately hit a bump by misstating in the minute-long spot how long she’s lived in the Golden State.” (Jack Chang and Andrew McIntosh, “Whitman Ad Inflates Her Time In California,” Sacramento Bee, 2/5/10)
• Watch Whitman’s Inaccurate Statement. Although Whitman Said In Her Ad, “Let’s Say What We Mean, Mean What We Say,” She Got “The One Figure She Cites In The Ad” Wrong. “Meg Whitman’s first television ad hits the airwaves today — a 60-second spot in which she asserts: ‘Let’s say what we mean, mean what we say.’ But the one figure she cites in the ad is, well, wrong.” (Ken McLaughlin, “Fuzzy Math? Meg Whitman ‘s First TV Commercial Exaggerates Her California Residency,” The [San Jose] Mercury News, 2/4/10)
• The Sacramento Bee Found Through Public Records That Whitman Has Lived In The State “Well Short Of Three Decades.” “Public property and corporate records and business biographies indicate Whitman has lived in the state well short of three decades. Whitman’s campaign could not provide a detailed account of her time in the state on Thursday. The Bee was able to verify roughly 23 years of residency during her business career.” (Jack Chang and Andrew McIntosh, “Whitman Ad Inflates Her Time In California,” Sacramento Bee, 2/5/10)
• The [San Jose] Mercury News Found That Whitman Has Lived In California For “Actually Closer To Two Decades.” “But quick checks of her biography in Marquis Who’s Who and other authoritative sources show it’s actually closer to two decades. In fact, Whitman told Lesley Stahl in a 2008 interview on the women’s site wowOwow.com that she’s ‘lived in California for nearly 20 years.'” (Ken McLaughlin, “Fuzzy Math? Meg Whitman’s First TV Commercial Exaggerates Her California Residency,” The [San Jose] Mercury News, 2/4/10)
For Inexplicable Reasons, The Whitman Campaign Declined To Specify When Whitman Moved Out Of California. “News reports have said she moved in 1992. The Whitman campaign declined to specify when she moved out of state.” (Shane Goldmacher, “Meg Whitman TV Ad Fudges On How Long She’s Lived In State,” Los Angeles Times’ “PolitiCal” Blog, latimesblogs.latimes.com, 2/4/10)
NOTE TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Whitman Told The Press In 1995 That Massachusetts Was A Better Place To Raise Her Family Than Southern California. “‘It was the right thing to do for our family … a better place to raise the boys’ than Southern California, she told the Detroit Free Press in 1995 about the move to Massachusetts.” (Jack Chang and Andrew McIntosh, “Whitman Ad Inflates Her Time In California,” Sacramento Bee, 2/5/10)
Various Media Outlets Pick Up On Whitman’s Distortion:
Sacramento Bee: “Whitman Ad Inflates Her Time In California.” (Jack Chang and Andrew McIntosh, “Whitman Ad Inflates Her Time In California,” Sacramento Bee, 2/5/10)
The [San Jose] Mercury News: “Fuzzy Math? Meg Whitman’s First TV Commercial Exaggerates Her California Residency.” (Ken McLaughlin, “Fuzzy Math? Meg Whitman’s First TV Commercial Exaggerates Her California Residency,” The [San Jose] Mercury News, 2/4/10)
Los Angles Times’ “PolitiCal” Blog: “Meg Whitman TV Ad Fudges On How Long She’s Lived In State.” (Shane Goldmacher, “Meg Whitman TV Ad Fudges On How Long She’s Lived In State,” Los Angeles Times’ “PolitiCal” Blog, latimesblogs.latimes.com, 2/4/10)
The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza: “Speaking to the camera, Whitman says that the number one problem facing California is a ‘crisis of confidence’ that the state can be saved and adds that things are the worst she has seen in her 30 years living in the state — a pronouncement that created some controversy since, well, Whitman hasn’t lived in the state for three decades.” (Chris Cillizza,” Tea Party Convention Convenes In Nashville,” The Washington Post’s “The Fix” Blog, voices.washingtonpost.com, 2/5/10)
CalBuzz: “Sure the ad fudges how long eMeg has lived in California (she suggests she’s lived here since 1980, which isn’t true) and there’s no demon sheep…” (Jerry Roberts And Phil Trounstine, “Carly’s Demon Sheep Meets Emeg’s $5M TV Buy,” Calbuzz Blog, http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=kqIOIVOGJmJSJ8L&s=hrLPJYOLLkISL4MIJsG&m=hfLIKUOAJfJVE, 2/5/10)
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Wow – remember when Whitman “couldn’t remember” her own voting record? She is a huge fan of van jones…
It is just amazing with Whitman – one lie and stumble after another…
please make her go away
I agree. I wish she would GO AWAY. She doesn’t care about this state.
She did’nt misstate it…..
SHE LIED.
Someone who got paid MILLIONS of dollars for developing this ad campaign new full well. If for some inexplicable reason they did not it shows you what a moron she is for hiring them.
This is a campaign lie pure and simple. There may be nothing wrong with that. But, don’t call it a misstatement! WTF?
Meg Whitman: Let’s say what we mean and mean what we say.
Horton, the elephant in “Horton Hear a Who”: I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant’s loyal, one hundred percent.
Coincidence? I don’t think so.