THE COVER-UP IS THE SIN—MEG WHITMAN’S “NANNY-GATE”
Politics is a rough-and-tumble game. Businesspeople who enter the political arena often get bruised. You can earn your stripes on the corporate battlefield and still be unprepared for a political campaign. Such was the case when Meg Whitman ran as the Republican candidate for California governor in 2010.
When Gloria Allred called in the TV cameras and her client, Nicky Diaz, came forward with a tearful complaint, there was a healthy amount of skepticism about her claims of mistreatment when she nannied for Meg Whitman and her husband. With the news breaking a month before the election, Whitman’s staff pointed out that Allred was buddies with Democratic candidate Jerry Brown.
Things quickly deteriorated ...
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