First Take: Governor vetoes pension bills; Whitman pushes back on housekeeper issue

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-- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed bills that would limit pension spiking, saying the measures did not go far enough.

-- Meg Whitman’s campaign lashed out at Democrats Thursday and said the surfacing and timing of revelations that Whitman employed an undocumented immigrant for nine years are part of a ‘coordinated political attack.’ Whitman said Thursday she would take a polygraph test to show she had no idea her housekeeper was in the country illegally. Her campaign later amended her statements to say she would submit to a test only if Jerry Brown does.The housekeeper issue breathes new life into this weekend’s second gubernatorial debate in Fresno, which is co-sponsored by Univision.

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