A fundraiser for Bob McDonnell, which was supposed to include California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, has been cancelled.
The McDonnell campaign said the event had to be rescheduled, due to the host’s wife giving birth. Due to scheduling conflicts, Whitman cannot be at the rescheduled event.
The DNC, however, is accusing Whitman of backing out as a result of the shame of it becoming public — in other words, that Whitman would end up being associated with McDonnell’s hard-right grad school thesis, which denounced working women and government policies that help them.
DNC spokesman Hari Sevugan released this statement:
“With his radical views on women anyone that Bob McDonnell touches is toxic, and now that this closed door event’s become public, it’s not surprising that she backed out. I’m sure Meg Whitman didn’t want Californians to know that she was not only embracing, but was also raising money for, a candidate who believes that women working outside the home are a ‘detriment to the family’ and who voted against the principle of equal pay for equal work. Indeed, in Bob McDonnell’s Virginia, Meg Whitman would not have been able to rise to position she rose to at eBay.”
