Whitman, Brown barnstorm
Source: Jack Chang & David Siders/Sacramento Bee
Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican Meg Whitman campaigned across California on Saturday, sparring over taxes and which one of them was best suited to lead the fiscally troubled state.
"After all this campaigning and all the ads and all that, that you're here at this hour of the morning, thank you very much," [Brown] told a group in Oakland. "I mean it's a renewal of faith and enthusiasm, and that's what we need going forward."
Brown talked about jobs and the economy before pausing, saying he wasn't sure what more to say.
"I don't like to say the same old, same old," he said. "That's one of the reasons I'm always getting off script."
Near the end of his brief address, Brown said, "OK, I think I'll stop there because I might say something I might regret."
In Merced, he needled Whitman, mocking the former eBay CEO for her argument that California should be run more like a business. "I want to run California more like a business," Brown said. "And in a business, the first thing you do, you look at the résumé. Have you done this job before? What are your skills? What do you know? Who recommends you? OK, I rest my case."