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the former housekeeper of
meg whitman
is ausing the republican candidate for governor of exploiting her emotionally and financy. the housekeeper, an undocumented worker, says that
whitman
knew she was in the country illegally. today her attorney, gloria alred, announced a claim for unpaid wages with the
state of california
.
>>
we are here today so that
meg whitman
‘s nanny and housekeeper can talk about what it was really like to be employed by
meg whitman
in her home for nine years. in short, it was a nightmare.
>>
mark murray
‘s nbc news deputy political director. was there any proof provided? what else was said?
>>
i haven’t seen the proof. the campaign held a
conference call
just a few minutes ago before this press conference to prebut some of the charges. while the woman had been working for
meg whitman
for nine years, she had actually filed fraudulent and
false documents
that she was a
legal resident
of this country. and after she said that she had filed
false documents
, she wasn’t a
legal resident
, that
whitman
fired her. the campaign says that it will produce documents showing that and showing the falsified documents. so we’ll wait to see when the campaign puts that out. but right now, it’s certainly a ba and, mark, i guess we have a statement from
meg whitman
‘s camp. it says with the polls tied, it comes as no — you know what, i don’t have that statement here. we’ll get it in a second. in the meantime, can you tell me, mark, this is the second employee. we have the former ebay employee, there was an out-of-
court settlement
there, the details never released. this is the second person who has worked for
meg whitman
, making some kind of allegation. does this hurt her in any way, at least right now?
>>
well, tamron, it could produce the — the image that
meg whitman
is a tough, combative person, although dealing with a really big
state budget
deficit that california has, maybe someone might think that’s a very good quality to have in the deal with sacramento. but as you mentioned, the “new york times” reported earlier this year that
meg whitman
, when she was a top head at ebay, had shoved an employee. that employee received a settlement in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. that employee, though, it should be noted went back to work for ebay. so this is the second employee that we’ve received — we now know that there was a complaint about
whitman
. how this impacts the governor’s race, we do not know. but certainly the campaign has been doing its best to deal with damage control and get their message out.
>>
all right, mark.
whitman
‘s campaign released this statement. they blasted gloria alred saying with the polls tied it comes as no surprise that the morning after a successful debate for meg that the sleaze machine of the
political left
is now focusing on the
politics of personal destruction
. very strongly worded statement there, mark.
>>
very strong words. and what the
meg whitman
campaign is pointing to is that
gloria allred
has given
jerry brown
0
campaign contribution
in
2006
when brown was running for attorney general of the state. trying to make the charge that this is a politically motivated lawsuit that’s coming right after the election. of course, it will be interesting to see the allegations — more allegations from alred and this
house keeper
. but certainly this isn’t the type of terrain that
meg whitman
wants to be talking about 34 days before the election, especially after a debate last night that both candidates, brown and
whitman
, thought that they did well in.
>>
mark murray
, thank you very
meg whitman