Brown, Whitman debate: Housekeeper issue leads to heated exchange (Jerry Brown Rocks!)

[Kadie]

Brown, Whitman debate: Housekeeper issue leads to heated exchange

By Michael J. Mishak
4:03 p.m. CDT, October 2, 2010

Fresno (Los Angles Times) -- Gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown tangled in a blistering dispute Saturday over Whitman's employment of an illegal immigrant housekeeper as they met for the campaign’s first and only Spanish-language debate.

The most intense exchange of the debate, held at Cal State Fresno, came when the moderator asked Whitman about the revelations earlier this week that she had employed Nicandra Diaz Santillan for nine years before firing her in 2009. Whitman has denied knowing that Diaz Santillan was undocumented until just before the dismissal.

Whitman turned to face Brown and accused Brown of being behind Santillan's emergence.

“Jerry, you should be ashamed,” she said, turning to Brown and shaking her finger. “You and your surrogates put her deportation at risk. You put her out there. You should be ashamed for sacrificing Nicky Diaz on the altar of your political ambitions.”

Brown fired back, denying any involvement and accusing Whitman of failing to take responsibility.

“Let’s be sympathetic and let’s really empathize with the millions of people who are in the shadows and you want to keep them in the shadows and now you’re trying to evade responsibility,” he said. “Don’t run for governor if you can’t stand up on your own two feet and say, ‘Hey I made a mistake, I’m sorry, let’s go on from here.’ You have blamed her, blamed me, blamed the left, blamed the unions but you don’t take accountability.”

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[valerief]

1. Jerry rocks! nt

[livetohike]

2. Priceless!

He has a way with words, doesn't he :-).

[senseandsensibility]

3. I hope it came across live as well as it does in print

Go Jerry!

[Kadie]

18. I haven't seen a video clip yet.

I will go take a look and see what I can find.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. I've always liked Jerry.

He nailed it there. Whitman is a weasel.

[BuelahWitch]

5. The party that whines about "personal responsiblity" never takes any

Another Republican hypocrite.

[Hekate]

6. Jerry Brown is a good man. I hope that woman goes crawling back under her rock, and soon. nt

[The Doctor.]

7. KA-BLAMM!!!

Down in flames.

[Bitwit1234]

8. That's what republicans always do

they go out, do illegal crap and sweep it under the rug. When someone comes along with a dust pan and finds it, they blame it on the Democrats for making it public. Allred made several statements that she had never contract jerry Brown and that he knew absolutely nothing about this until he, like the rest of the country, read it in the news and heard in on TV. But that doesn't stop a**holes like Witless trying to push the blame for uncovering it on someone else. While she is the one WHO DID THE DEED IN THE FIRST PLACE.

[KurtNYC]

9. I can smell Whitman's desperation from the East Coast

laughable. Unless Brown F's up this is a walk over.

[DCKit]

11. ReGovernor - too many forget how good CA was with him. n/t

[TomCADem]

10. Boom! Great Response By Jerry!

[pinboy3niner]

12. It's a "You're no Jack Kennedy" moment

Good for Jerry!

[David Zephyr]

13. He's the best!

It will play on Univision in 45 minutes.

[tularetom]

14. He should have told her "Don't call me Jerry you haven't earned the right"

You can refer to me as Mr Attorney General or "General" Brown.

(Weasel John Ashcroft wanted people to call him "General")

[Cognitive_Resonance]

15. Slam dunk! Whitman is absolute toast at this point. nt

[Parker CA]

16. Wow, nice!! Smack that garbage down hard, Jerry!

[Hepburn]

17. Wow....he nailed her!

Bravo! :applause:

[TexasObserver]

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