candidates, meg whitman and jerry man, tangle or taxes and budgets. the sharpest exchanges came over the recent reporting of someone in the brown campaign calling whitman a, quote, whore during a taped phone conversation. the slurs directed at whitman s attempt to gain an endorsement. they asked brown to publicly address the whore controversy. we have heard no outrage to you about the use of that kind of language, which is the same ace calling an african-american the n word. have you been in charge of your campaign to find out who said that word? this is a five-week-old private conversation. i doesn t want to get into the term. the campaign apologized promptly