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Whitman Spending Reaches $141 Million

According to Steve Lopez of the L.A. Times, republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has spent $141 million dollars in pursuit of becoming California's first female Governor.

The L.A. Times reports that with the money she has spent so far, it would be enough to buy every Californian two medium Domino's pizza with two toppings of your choice. The L.A. Weekly also adds "wouldn't you rather have had the pizzas?"

Wonder what we would get from Jerry Brown's campaign, a half tank of gas?

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Women's Conference in The LBC

First Lady Maria Shriver.

Meg, Arny, and Jerry.

Victoria!

Eve Ensler.

Diane Sawyer with Chief Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Conner.

Jane Goodall.

Laura Bush with bobble-head likeness.

Deepak Chopra.

The Women's Conference held at the Long Beach Convention Center was hosted by California First Lady Maria Shriver and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Plenty of stars and fireworks at today's opening session. Matt Lauer called on both gubernatorial candidates to pull their negative TV ads form the air. Jerry Brown agreed as long as Meg Whitman would follow suit.

Eve Ensler gave the crowd of 15 thousand a moving reading about her battles with cancer.

Chief Justices Sandra Day O'Conner and Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke about their experiences during the their tenures at the Supreme Court.

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Whitman Housekeeper Presser

Candidate Meg Whitman's former housekeeper, Nicky Diaz-Santillan, held a press conference at her lawyer's, Gloria Allred, office.

Diaz-Santillan denies the claims by Whitman that someone put her up to dragging Whitman's name through the mud in the final weeks of the gubernatorial campaign. Diaz-Santiallan claims that Whitman abused her verbally and financially during her nine year employment, and she is owed over six thousand dollars in unpaid wages.

Whitman stated that Diaz-Santillan lied about her personal information when she was hired, Diaz-Santillan is an undocumented worker from Mexico.

Attorney Gloria Allred told the press that she was not working for the Brown campaign, and is just doing her job as an attorney. Although Allred will not disclose who is paying for her fee.

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Meg Whitman Press Conference

Gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman faced the press today answering questions about hiring then firing her maid, Nicky Diaz. Whitman claims she did not know Diaz was here in the U.S. working illegally without any documentation.

Diaz also claims Whitman abused her verbally and financially, Whitman denies the claims. Whitman and her husband, Dr. Harsh, claim Diaz stole mail that would prove that she was here illegally. They now have a lock on their mailbox and pick up the mail themselves.

When asked by a T.V. reporter to take a lie detector test, a la Maury Show, to prove here innocence, Whitman said that she would be happy too.

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