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Steve Poizner targets Meg Whitman’s media dodging

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Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner has seized on Meg Whitman’s penchant for skirting open news conferences, mocking Whitman in a new Internet video. In the video released Wednesday, Poizner’s campaign team seized on reports from Bay Area media outlets about Whitman’s refusal to take questions at a campaign stop in Oakland on Tuesday, and set some carefully edited clips to music to make their point.

Whitman has conducted several one-on-one interviews with California political reporters in recent days, but often shies away from taking questions from the media at her events.

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Poizner’s team seized on Tuesday’s critical coverage of Whitman in an effort to close a wide gap between him and Whitman in most opinion polls. ‘Whitman’s campaign has escalated from simply canceling interviews and requiring pre-scripted questions to the absurd tactics of physically removing press and hiding beyond a screen,’ Poizner spokeswoman Bettina Inclan said in a statement Wednesday.

Whitman’s campaign responded to the video Wednesday. ‘This is nothing more than Poizner trying to run away from his record of raising taxes to the tune of $40 billion and undercutting Prop. 13,’ said spokeswoman Sarah Pompei.

-- Anthony York

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