Ad Accuses Meg Whitman of Pushing Porn

Opponent Steve Poizner paints eBay as smut marketplace
By Kate Seamons,  Newser Staff
Posted May 18, 2010 10:12 AM CDT

Even Meg Whitman's opponents in the California governor's race agree that she led eBay to greatness—as a smut market. A new ad created by Republican Steve Poizner's campaign says when Whitman took the helm, she scrubbed guns from the site but created a separate hardcore-porn division that became one of the largest on the Internet. He slips in a dig about her Goldman Sachs dealings—"Double Gasp!" declares Mediaite—before breaking it down: "Meg Whitman: bad judgment, wrong values."
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