The campaign for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown said this morning that the Democratic candidate did not suggest calling Republican rival Meg Whitman a "whore" on a voicemail recording to the Los Angeles Police Protective League that was made public last night.
Brown spokesman Sterling Clifford, however, said he didn't know who used the word in the recording.
"Obviously, it's not the kind of thing people should say, and we've apologized for it," Clifford said. "It wasn't Jerry."
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Brown campaign manager Steve Glazer did not address the issue of who said the word in an apologetic statement released last night.
Widely reported news of the comment could hurt Brown's support among women, who the Field Poll shows are already backing Whitman in greater numbers than Republican candidates usually manage.
The comments were inadvertently recorded when Brown thought he had hung up the phone while leaving a message for the police group.