Maldonado is running some ugly ads against Gavin Newsom

[JI7]

we need Jerry Brown/Gavin NEwsom as Governor and Lieutenant Governor . so far polls show Newsom holds a small lead or even tied.

i'm hoping SF can come out in big numbers . Newsom should also run the type of ads Brown and Boxer have run against Whitman and Fiorina. the below is a youtube ad but should be on TV also. NEwsom is leading in fundraising so that helps.



<On Thursday, meanwhile, the Newsom campaign released its own YouTube ad accusing Maldonado of putting workers in danger at his Santa Maria family farm.

The video cites an Oct. 15 Los Angeles Times article about safety violations at Maldonado’s Agro-Jal farm operation. It features footage of workers sprinting through fields, carrying large flats of strawberries. It also shows Maldonado's response to an interview about the death of a farmhand who was crushed beneath a tractor in 2007.

“There's accidents that are going to happen,” Maldonado says in the clip.

According to government records, Maldonado's farm has accumulated dozens of violations from California's Occupational Safety and Health Administration since 1990, including multiple citations for exposing workers to toxic pesticides and skirting clean-water regulations. Four of the violations were for running tractors across the fields with no driver at the wheel and no means of steering or stopping the machines.>

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/10/newsom-maldonado-lietenant-governor-ads-campaign-youtube.html

[AtomicKitten]

1. Jerry Brown is holding a decent lead. As he goes, so does Gavin. nt

[Retrograde]

4. not necessarily

California has a habit of electing governors and lt. governors from different parties. In the last election, we got an R (Ahnold) for governor and a D (Garimendi) for lt. governor. Back in Browns's first terms his lt. governor was a Republican, Mike Curb.

Don't ask me why, it seems to be a state quirk.

[AtomicKitten]

5. JBrown is now enjoying a double-digit lead. Hopefully he has coattails. nt

[Xipe Totec]

2. Maldonado; Mal donado

Evil gift, or Ill donated.

Think about it.

[Clio the Leo]

3. Newsom is def. one to watch isn't he?

.... for 2016 and beyond I mean. It pains me to say that because he's the love rival of someone I'm a fan of (not in politics) but he looks to be a promising one.