Brown And Whitman Take One Last Campaign Swing Through Southern California

One day before voters head to the polls, gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown made campaign swings through the Southland today, encouraging residents to make their voices heard by voting.

“We are gonna win this. We are going to win this because we’re gonna turn out the vote in a much more dramatic way than the opponents,” Republican Meg Whitman told supporters at a Republican Party office in Woodland Hills.

Whitman rallied workers at the office, then picked up a phone herself to call prospective voters to encourage them to head for the polls on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, her Democratic opponent, Jerry Brown, joined with other Democrats in a get-out-the-vote rally at the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles.

“When I start, and I’m going to start this job if I’m elected, I’m not going to wait for a couple of months,” Brown said. “I’m gonna go to work in two weeks, and I’m going to seek the help of you, and other legislators, I’m gonna go up and down the state and the budget is not going to be a secretive process. It’s going to be wide open, transparent, inclusive and exhaustive.”

The activity was just as brisk for the campaigns of Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, the Republican trying to unseat her.

Fiorina met with supporters at a phone bank in Pasadena.

“Every single phone call you make makes a difference,” Fiorina said. “Every single doorbell you ring, every person you talk to makes a difference, And there are people like you all up and down this state doing exactly what you’re doing.”

Boxer greeted voters at a restaurant in Toluca Lake, stressing that voter turnout will key in Tuesday’s election.

“The people have to vote,” she said. “If we have a decent turnout, I’ll be back in the Senate fighting for California. And that’s why I’m working very hard today and tomorrow.”

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday.