A not very subtle reminder about Whitman

June 14, 2010 3:29 PM PT

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The Courage Campaign, a liberal political committee, released this none-too-subtle video to remind voters that billionaire GOP candidate Meg Whitman was endorsed by former Vice President Dick Cheney. The video is part of the group’s effort to paint Whitman as a conservative ideologue, not a common sense moderate.

Cheney is played by Darth Vader. At one point he holds a two-sided campaign sign over a highway overpass: ‘Honk for Meg,’ it says. ‘Or I will destroy you.’

-- Evan Halper in Sacramento

Politi-Cal

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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