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San Jose Mercury NewsFrightened that Jerry Brown's campaign coffers aren't rich enough to battle a billionaire to become California's next governor, three separate Democratic and pro-labor groups are poised to raise more than $40 million to start trashing GOP front-runner Meg Whitman.
Over the next week, the Democratic Governors Association and two other groups will pour an unprecedented wave of cash into a negative advertising campaign four months ahead of the June 8 primary.
... "The Democrats are having a 1994 nightmare," said John Pitney, a government and politics professor at Claremont McKenna College. "They're really worried that this election could be very much like that one, when there was a Republican sweep across the nation, and a Democrat named Brown lost to a Republican for California governor," referring to Pete Wilson's defeat of Brown's sister, Kathleen Brown.
According to Democratic sources in all three groups, the ads are scheduled to begin appearing by next week and will present a "populist message" portraying Whitman, the former eBay executive, as a callous CEO who laid off workers while reaping millions in salaries and bonuses while attending to personal business in a corporate jet. The sources said the ads will try to paint her as a greedy Wall Street-style tycoon at a time when many Americans blame Wall Street for the collapse of the U.S. economy.
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