CA-Gov: Whitman Dodges Questions at Press Event

Hilarious but insightful coverage from the San Francisco Bay Area’s CBS affiliate, KPIX, and political editor, Hank Plante, and Meg Whitman’s continued attempts to dodge questions from the media.

In a report from the San Jose Mercury News, Whitman’s meeting with Union Pacific (a big-time corporate donor to her campaign) sounded like it was a field trip for elementary schoolchildren.

During that brief chat, Whitman said it had been “a really good morning for me” with “a couple of ‘a-ha’s'” as she learned “how important Union Pacific is” to California’s economy by virtue of the huge volume of freight it moves in and out of the state.

Whitman voiced support for rolling back clean air protections. A move in which public relations director for Union Pacific, Wes Lujan, agreed with and “later said Union Pacific will be contributing to Whitman’s campaign ‘in the near future.’”