Republican Meg Whitman has apparently decided that the best way to win the California governor’s race is to imitate Sarah Palin. Whitman has repeatedly refused to talk to reporters and has instead made herself available to conservative columnists, mirroring Palin’s 2008 vice presidential run when she refused to hold a single press conference and preferred fawning interviews on Fox News. And Whitman did it again yesterday at the Port of Oakland, inviting reporters to come along on a tour, but then deciding at the last moment to keep them in an isolated room and refuse to answer their questions, the Trib and Chron report.
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