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Steve Poizner: Meg Whitman knew about ‘threats’

By Evan Halper
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GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner isn’t backing off his claim that the campaign of rival Meg Whitman has resorted to illegal threats and intimidation to get him out of the race.

Last week, he announced at a news conference that he was reporting the actions of team Whitman to the FBI. The crime? Its consultant advised Poizner to drop out of the race or risk seeing his political career ruined by a millions of dollars worth of Whitman attack ads. The charges were met with no small degree of ridicule by many pundits and political observers.

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Now Poizner claims Whitman knew her staff was out making threats, despite initially saying otherwise. His campaign presents its evidence in this new Web video, complete with sinister music.

-- Evan Halper in Sacramento

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Evan Halper

Evan Halper is a former staff writer who wrote about a broad range of policy issues out of Washington, D.C., with particular emphasis on how Washington regulates, agitates and very often miscalculates in its dealings with California. Before heading east, he was the Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Sacramento, where he spent a decade untangling California’s epic budget mess and political dysfunction.

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