At a news conference yesterday, California GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman said that, unlike Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger or Attorney General Brown who have declined defending the measure, she would defend Proposition 8 if elected governor:
"The issue right now is, as I understand is 'Will Proposition 8 have the appropriate support to actually make an appeal to the circuit court of appeals?' " Whitman said. "And I think the governor, the attorney general today has to defend the constitution and has to enable the judicial process to go along and has to enable an appeal to go through. So if I was governor, I would give that ruling standing to be able to appeal to the circuit court."
The Courage Campaign took Whitman's hypothetical situation and threw it in the trash.
Said Courage Campaign director Rick Jacobs:
"She wouldn't be governor yet. The appeals court will decide before there would be a change of governor and attorney general…You're going to see us making it clear that Meg Whitman is unqualified to be governor on any stand."
