CA-Gov: Meg Whitman Advisors Unlikely to Take Part in Traditional Campaign Rehash

CA-Gov: Meg Whitman advisors unlikely to take part in traditional campaign rehash

Meg Whitman’s campaign for governor set a national spending record, and now looks like it will reach another milestone – becoming the first campaign not to participate in a traditional postelection conference where winning and losing strategists dissect their work and spill secrets about the machinations behind the scenes.

The conference has been held by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies after every gubernatorial contest since 1990. The 2010 Governor’s Race: The Inside Story is scheduled for Jan. 21-22. 

I don’t think we’re going to go, said Rob Stutzman, a senior adviser to Whitman. It’s self-indulgent, by self-important scholars and journalists. It is what it is.

Stutzman said Whitman’s chief strategist Mike Murphy will definitely not attend, and he and other senior staffers don’t feel a need to participate.

Organizers, who could not recall a prior campaign declining to participate in the conference, said they had not heard back from any Whitman representatives and remained hopeful that someone would attend. Two representatives from Gov.-elect Jerry Brown’s team will participate – campaign manager Steve Glazer and senior adviser Joe Trippi.

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Pretty bad form by Rob Stutzman and Mike Murphy. They should go and take their lumps – lumps they deserve as the campaign they ran was one of the most cataclysmic campaigns in California history.