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
in the brown campaign calling whitman a, quote, whore. they were directed at her attempts to gain a union endorsement. tom bow kau asked brown to publicly address it. we heard nothing from you as to the use of that word. have you been in charge of the investigation of your campaign to find out who was responsible for using that phrase? i don t agree with that comparison, number one. number two, this is a five-week-old private conversation picked up on a cell phone with a garbled transmission, very hard to detect who it is. i don t want to get into the term and how it s used. i will say the campaign apologized promptly and i affirm that apology tonight. mike, you re shaking your head at that explanation. jerry is an angry candidate. there s a lot to be angry about if you re in california.