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Sacramento, CA, United States (AHN) – Television ads of state California Attorney General Jerry Brown are running for the first time in the general election race for governor. The Democrat trails former eBay CEO Meg Whitman in polls.

The 30-second spot touts Brown’s accomplishments when he served as governor from 1975 through 1983. The ad says during his term, he cut taxes by $4 billion and created 1.9 million new jobs.

“California needs major changes,” the state attorney general says in the ad. “We have to live within our means, we have to return power and decision-making to the local level, closer to the people, and no new taxes without voter approval.”

Whitman’s spokesperson Andrea Jones Rivera dismissed the spot, saying, “After 40 years in politics protecting the status quo, it’s no surprise that Jerry Brown is kicking off his campaign with a misleading historic renovation of his own record.”

“He left the state ‘flat broke and flirting with bankruptcy,’ ” Rivera added, quoting a Sacramento Bee op-ed two years after Brown ended his term. “Jerry Brown is the last person we can trust for ‘major change’ in Sacramento.”

Whitman, who won the Republican primary in June against seven other rivals including state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, is slightly ahead in polls.

A 2008 McCain campaign adviser who was said to have been vetted for the GOP vice presidential nomination, Whitman has spent $104 million of her personal wealth for her campaign. She has been pouring funds on campaign ads, an approach that seems to have worked in her favor.

The Republican, who has run more than 45,000 ads since the primary in June, is ahead in polls despite continued criticisms about her spotty voting record and the recent controversy surrounding a settlement eBay paid in 2007 to keep an employee she had reportedly “forcefully pushed” from filing an assault lawsuit.

The latest poll in the race, from SurveyUSA, has Whitman leading Brown 47 percent to 40 percent overall. She holds the support of independents, 59 percent to 31 percent, and voters in Central Valley, 61 percent to 21 percent.

However, Brown has the advantage in the Bay Area, where voters choose him, 54 percent to 34 percent, over his rival. The Democrat, a 1992 Democratic contender for the White House, also has the Hispanic vote, 45 percent to 37 percent, and the black vote, 61 percent to 32 percent.

“Despite a summer of politics-as-usual attacks, the race remains a dead heat,” Brown campaign manager Steve Glazer said in a statement. “This is the start of an aggressive ad campaign that will be matched with aggressive public outreach to present voters with a clear choice.”

The two candidates are seeking to succeed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican who is constrained by law not to seek a third term. The race is rated a tossup by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.

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