Meg Whitman Declines the Offer of Abandoing Negative Ads

     At the Long Beach Convention Center, the republican gubernatorial candidate, Meg Whitman sparked negativity in a major women's gathering on Tuesday, October 26th, after declaring to her Democratic Opponent, Jerry Brown she would refuse to withdraw negative television advertisements. Joined by Arnold Schwarzenegger, the three of them attended California's First lady, Maria Shriver's annual Woman's Conference. Mentioned in the San Francisco Chronicle, host Matt Lauer, surprised the candidates when he challenged them to drop their highly personal attack ads and replace them with positive ones. Lauer begins to say,

"End the negativity," he said, to cheers from the crowd. "Pull your negative ads and replace them with positive ads," he added, to give California voters "a break."
Brown, the state attorney general, said, "If Meg wants to do that, I'll be glad to do it. ... I'll pledge that right now."

In response, Meg Whitman answered uncomfortably that she fell victim of campaign "character attacks" and openly refused Lauer's proposition. Immediately she was "boo-ed" in front of millions of viewers for her decision. I believe this could potentially hurt Whitman's campaign all together, because it was a bad public speaking move. She should have stated a reason for not agreeing to create positive ads before flat out refusing it.