The debate broke ground not because of its content but for the fact that it occurred.

The fact is I want to drive the number of abortions down. “I want to stop illegal immigration by cutting off taxpayer-funded benefits. “I want to fix the state of California by implementing some bold, sweeping reforms that include tax cuts across the board, where Meg and I disagree,” he said. Poizner, who is trailing Whitman in pre-primary polls, sought again and again to define her as too liberal for the party’s core voters, an argument he has forwarded more sharply in recent weeks. “I know what it’s like to run a business in California, and I know how hard it is.” I have balanced budgets, I have been on the receiving end of all kinds of burdensome regulations,” she said. Brown, she said, brought to the race a “record of failure.” Whitman argued that she would bring an outsider’s perspective to Sacramento and present the sharpest possible contrast to the presumptive Democratic nominee, former governor and current Atty. Republican candidates for governor Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner met in a generally genteel debate Monday evening that skipped lightly over detailed solutions to California’s grievous fiscal mess in favor of the familiar arguments that each has made for months as they drive toward the June 8 primary.

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