Republican Meg Whitman's camp is continuing its attacks against the labor groups backing Democrat Jerry Brown, launching a new television spot hitting Brown's union supporters.
The 30-second ad, titled "Their Governor," targets labor group-backed independent expenditure committees that have been funding ads attacking Whitman.
"They want Jerry Brown because he won't rock the boat in Sacramento. He'll be the same as he ever was," the narrator says, going on to warn that a Brown win would lead to higher taxes, job losses and continuing large public employee pensions.
A spokesman for "California Working Families 2010," one of the committees targeted by Whitman's ad, said the spot illustrates that Whitman's "solution to everything is to throw money at the problem."
"Our ads call Meg Whitman out on her campaign of misstatements and outright lies," committee strategist Roger Salazar wrote in an e-mail. "It's clear our messages are resonating, otherwise Whitman wouldn't respond by trying to bully the messenger. It's also clear with this new ad Meg Whitman wants to once again buy her way out of trouble."
Watch the spot, which the campaign says will air statewide, below:
This post was updated at 2:55 p.m. with a response from California Working Families.
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