WASHINGTON (CNN) ? Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman's appearance at a Virginia fundraiser this week for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell has been canceled.
McDonnell's campaign said the fundraiser, to be held at a private home in northern Virginia, was canceled last week because "scheduling reasons prevented it from happening." John Backus, a businessman who was scheduled to host the gathering and has known Whitman for years, said the fundraiser had to be postponed because his wife is giving birth. He said Whitman wouldn't be attending the re-scheduled event.
Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for Whitman, said the fundraiser was canceled because "our campaign has a scheduling conflict."
The calendar re-shuffling might be good news for Whitman, who is now seeking the GOP gubernatorial nomination in California and faces a potentially difficult three-way primary. After all, national Democrats have been eager to draw attention to McDonnell's controversial master's thesis that called working women "detrimental" to families, and they have skewered the Republicans who have journeyed to Virginia since the document was uncovered.
Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Bobby Jindal and Newt Gingrich have all been labeled conservative extremists by the Democratic National Committee for campaigning with McDonnell. On Monday, the DNC released a Web video with a warning for potential McDonnell surrogates: "You campaign with Bob McDonnell," the video cautions, "you're playing with fire."
Whitman didn't even have to make the trip to be targeted: DNC spokesman Hari Sevugan issued a tough statement on learning that the event was canceled, claiming that Whitman ? one of the country's most successful female executives when she stepped down as eBay CEO in in 2007 ? wouldn't have had the opportunity to shine "in Bob McDonnell's Virginia.
"With his radical views on women anyone that Bob McDonnell touches is toxic, and now that the closed door event's become public, it's not surprising that she backed out," Sevugan said in an e-mail to CNN. "I'm sure Meg Whitman didn't want Californians to know that she was not only embracing, but was raising money for, a candidate who believes that women working outside the home are a 'detriment to the family' and voted against the principle of equal pay for equal work."
"Indeed, in Bob McDonnell's Virginia, Meg Whitman would not have been able to rise to position she rose to at eBay," he added.
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Whitman targeted as McDonnell fundraiser canceled - Blogs from CNN.com
Originally Posted by R13
So McDonnell is going to keep women from working? LOL That is 20X stupider than the Gun ban questions that were brought up about Obama that you were shooting down right and left pre election
Mud slinging from BOTH sides is what hurts our gov the most
If you can't win with your ideas smear the other guy till he looks just as bad.....I juess we get what we diserve in the end
Will he stop women from working? No and I don't think that's what Deeds was going for. It goes back to that thesis paper McDonnell wrote, which said women shouldn't work and it'd be bad for the family, I guess with her being self-made millionaire wouldn't look too good with her.So McDonnell is going to keep women from working? LOL That is 20X stupider than the Gun ban questions that were brought up about Obama that you were shooting down right and left pre election
Mud slinging from BOTH sides is what hurts our gov the most
If you can't win with your ideas smear the other guy till he looks just as bad.....I juess we get what we diserve in the end
It is a bunch of BS and You know it but BS is all that politics has turned into over the years and that is sad.
I wish BOTH sides would put there opinion on the issues out there and let the people truly desid insted of the CRAP that we put up with now
Like you said, this is what politics is, it's been like this since it began and will never change.
Counts are you sure Deeds is for Cap and Trade?
WASHINGTON (CNN) ? Virginia gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds, a Democrat, argued Tuesday that the Obama administration?s contentious economic agenda has been a drag on his campaign.
With slightly under a month to go until Election Day on November 3, Deeds trails Republican Bob McDonnell in the polls. McDonnell has tried to tie Deeds to some of the more controversial legislative items being debated in Washington, particularly health care reform and the union-friendly Employee Free Choice Act.
?Frankly, a lot of what?s going on in Washington has made it very tough,? Deeds said in a candidate forum put on by Politico, WJLA television, Google and YouTube. ?We had a very tough August because people were just uncomfortable with the spending. They were uncomfortable with a lot of the noise that was coming out of Washington, D.C.?
Deeds said his campaign is now ?re-framing? the race to keep a focus on Virginia issues. He told the moderators that he disagrees with Obama on ?some issues? but only named one: the cap-and-trade legislation currently before Congress.
He did, however, give the president points for his handling of economic crisis.
?Frankly, I don?t think he?s getting enough credit right now for lots of good signs that are emerging in the economy,? he said.
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Deeds: Democrats’ national agenda has made campaign ‘tough’ - Blogs from CNN.com
After the election last year, Republican Bob McDonnell expected former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to campaign with him.
In the summer, even after Palin's stunning announcement that she was resigning as governor of Alaska, McDonnell said he would welcome her to Virginia.
This week, McDonnell made it clear that would not happen.
"There was a time earlier on when she was governor when I thought she would come here,'' McDonnell said after a candidates' forum in Loudoun County earlier this week. "But I think she seems to be busy with books and other things like that. We've still got about 20 different events scheduled down the road and she's not one of them."
But Palin adviser Meg Stapleton told Politico that her boss offered to help McDonnell. Calls and e-mails to Palin's political action committee were not returned. Her PAC donated $2,500 to McDonnell this summer.
Palin's visits to the state drew enormous, enthusiastic crowds of Republicans last year, but Democrats would have a field day with Palin's arrival if she did come here.
Virginia Politics Archive - Creigh Deeds - washingtonpost.com
Big debate tonight, actually in about 15 min. I think CSPAN will be streaming it live.
On channel 8, Blue Ridge, right now.
Sounds like he is changeing his mind the issue and i AM VERY GLAD if that is the case that issue alone would keep me from voteing for any canadate in favor of it and I HATE being a 1 issue voter
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