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Jerry should have said, yes, i have, and i ve been unable to determine who may have uttered those horrible words. let s move beyond it though, tom. i have apologized. i apologize again here tonight. and meg, let s discuss jobs, let s discuss the budget of the state of california. let s not discuss what obviously is a horror slur word. and that would be the end of it. joan, your view on this. the way that he handled it, the way that it was used, it was apparently used by some staffer with regard to unions, we are in regards to unions, public safety union, the way it is used in politics, not defensible but certainly looks terrible here. what do you view how do you view it? no, it is not defensible, looks terrible, but i want to say i don t want to sit here, no one died and put me in charge of speaking for women, chris, so i do think that this word now has a gender-neutral political connotation, sadly to mayor brown s profession and the profession that we both love. so i didn t nece ....
A gender-neutral political connotation, sadly to mayor brown s profession and the profession that we both love. so i didn t necessarily hear it as a gender slur. nonetheless, it was a bad thing to say. i thought he got off a great line by reminding her that it s her campaign chairman, pete wilson, who used it in the gender-neutral sense talking about congress. so, that took the sting off it. but i think that jerry brown could have been faster to apologize and then get to the quip about pete wilson. i think that would have been a lot more effective. let s move on to the other situation that involves meg whitman, the republican candidate. here is more from california and in that smackdown last night in that debate at the dominican college. here he is. let s listen. if you couldn t find someone in your home was undocumented or illegal how do you expect businesses to be able to do that? so we went through an employment agency. we looked at three forms of identification. our housekeep ....
Brown s profession and the profession that we both love. so i didn t necessarily hear it as a gender slur. nonetheless, it was a bad thing to say. i thought he got off a great line by reminding her that it is her campaign chairman, pete wilson, who used it in the gender-neutral sense talking about congress. so, that took the sting off it. but i think that jerry brown could have been faster to apologize and then get to the quip about pete wilson. i think that would have been a lot more effective. let s move on to the other situation that involves meg whitman, the republican candidate. here is more from california and in that smashdown last night in that debate at dominican college. here he is. let s listen. if you couldn t find someone in your home was undocumented or illegal how do you expect businesses to be able to do that? so we went through an employment agency. we looked at forms of identification. our housekeeper falsified those documents and came to admit it nine years lat ....