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<p class="asset asset-audio at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0134880b2a0d970c">It's a shame that politicians from both sides have resorted to the lowest tactics in any effort to win...</p><hr /><p class="asset asset-audio at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0134880b2a0d970c">From LA Times:</p><p class="asset asset-audio at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0134880b2a0d970c">In a private conversation that was inadvertently taped by a voicemail machine (audio below), an associate ofgubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown can be heard referring to hisopponent Meg Whitman as a “whore” for cutting a deal protecting law enforcement pensions as the two candidates competed for police endorsements.</p><p class="asset asset-audio at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0134880b2a0d970c">The comment came after Brown called the Los Angeles Police Protective League in early September to ask for its endorsement. He left a voicemail message for Scott Rate, a union official. Brown apparently believed he had hung up the phone,but the connection remained intact and the voice mail machine captured an ensuing conversation between Brown and his aides.</p><p class="asset asset-audio at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0134880b2a0d970c">With evident frustration, Brown discussed the pressure he was under to refuse to reduce public safety pensions or lose law enforcement endorsements to Whitman. Months earlier, Whitman had agreed to exempt public safety officials from key parts of her pension reform plan.</p><p class="asset asset-audio at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0134880b2a0d970c">“Do we want to put an ad out? … That I have been warned if I crack down on pensions, I will be – that they’ll go to Whitman, and that’s where they’ll go because they know Whitman will give ‘em, will cut them a deal, but I won’t,” Brown said.</p><p class="asset asset-audio at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0134880b2a0d970c">At that point, what appears to be a secondvoice interjects: “What about saying she’s a whore?”</p><p class="asset asset-audio at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0134880b2a0d970c">“Well, I’m going to use that,” Brown responds. “It proves you’ve cut a secret deal to protect the pensions.”</p><p class="asset asset-audio at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0134880b2a0d970c">The tape was released to The Times by the Los Angeles police union.</p><p class="asset asset-audio at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0134880b2a0d970c">Brown campaign spokesman Sterling Clifford, confirming the tape’s authenticity, said that Brown was responding to the notion of accusing Whitman of cutting a deal to gain endorsements, not to the use of the word “whore.” The campaign was trying to determine the identity of the second speaker, he added.</p>