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KABC-TV, channel 7, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, licensed to Los Angeles, California, USA. KABC-TV's studios are located in Glendale, California. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 from its transmitter on Mount Wilson.

In the few areas of the western United States where viewers cannot receive ABC programs over-the-air, KABC-TV is available on satellite to subscribers of DirecTV.

Digital television[link]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Digital channels

ABC7 Plus[link]

ABC7 Plus, branded on-air as ABC7+ with the plus sign, primarily airs programming from the Live Well HD Network, which premiered on channel 7.2 on April 27, 2009. It also airs rebroadcasts of its local news, public affairs programming, and syndicated shows. However, ABC7+ can carry shows that are normally on the main channel (7.1) if KABC has preempted them for breaking news. Two such preemptions occurred in 2007 when ABC7+ aired sports events from ESPN on ABC while KABC had continuous live news coverage of local wildfires: the Subway 500 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race on October 21 and the first round of the Skins Game golf tournament on November 24.

On September 12, 2009 ABC7+ aired live coverage of a memorial service at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles for two members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department who died while fighting the Station Fire in the Angeles National Forest. KABC's Saturday morning ABC Kids children's programming aired as scheduled without preemption.

Analog-to-digital conversion[link]

KABC-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7, on June 12, 2009 at 12:00 p.m., ^[1][2], as part of the DTV transition in the United States.^[2] The station had been broadcasting its pre-transition digital signal over UHF channel 53, but returned to channel 7 for its post-transition operations.^[3] KABC broadcasts in 720p high definition on virtual channel 7.1, since ABC Network programming uses that particular HD format.

After the digital transition commenced, some viewers had difficulty receiving the new signal, despite its current level of 25,000 watts. On March 31, 2009, KABC-TV filed an application to the FCC to upgrade its signal strength to 28,700 watts.^[4] It was granted a construction permit on March 3, 2011.^[5]

History[link]

Channel 7 first went on the air as KECA-TV on September 16, 1949. At the same time, it was the last of Los Angeles' VHF television stations to sign on, and the last of the five original ABC-owned stations to debut, after KGO-TV in San Francisco signed on four months earlier.

The station was named after Los Angeles broadcasting pioneer Earle C. Anthony, whose initials were also present on channel 7's then-sister radio station, KECA (790 AM, now KABC). KECA radio had been an affiliate of the NBC Blue Network. Anthony's other Los Angeles radio station, KFI, was aligned with the Red Network. The Red Network survived the split of the two NBC radio networks ordered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1943. Edward J. Noble, who bought the Blue Network (beginning its transformation into ABC), purchased KECA radio a year later when the FCC forced Anthony to divest one of his Los Angeles radio stations.

On February 1, 1954 KECA-TV changed its call letters to the present KABC-TV.^[6]

From the time of its initial sign-on in 1949, channel 7 was located at the ABC Television Center (now branded as the Prospect Studios), located in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, east of Hollywood. In December 1999, KABC-TV moved from its longtime studios to a new state-of-the-art facility designed by César Pelli in nearby Glendale.^[7] The station is currently a short distance from ABC's West Coast headquarters, and from parent Walt Disney Company's headquarters in Burbank.

KABC-TV has used the Circle 7 logo since 1962 (the same year ABC created and implemented its current logo), and augmented its bottom left quadrant with the ABC network logo in 1997. The station's news anchors and reporters wear Circle 7 lapel pins when they appear on camera, a practice that had once been standard at each of the original five ABC-owned stations.

On February 4, 2006, KABC-TV became the first television station in California to broadcast its newscasts in high-definition. Along with the in-house upgrades, the station debuted an upgraded news set and an update to its theme music.

News programming[link]

KABC-TV first adopted the Eyewitness News format in February 1969, not long after it became a hit at sister station WABC-TV in New York City. Like the other ABC-owned stations, Channel 7 used the "Tar Sequence" cue from the soundtrack of the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke as its theme music, and continued to do so even after the others adopted the Frank Gari-composed "News Series 2000", an updated version of the theme. Later on, the original Cool Hand Luke theme was used only in the news open. The station's newscasts used a synthesized version of the old theme, composed by Frank Becker, during the mid-1980s. KABC-TV picked up the News Series 2000 package in 1990. In 1995 KABC began using Gari's "Eyewitness News" music package, which remains the station's news theme.

During the 1980s, KABC-TV was one of a few stations in the country to run a three-hour block of local news during weekday afternoons and early evenings from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. The station was the first in the region, if not the state, to introduce an hour-long newscast at 4 p.m., first anchored by Jerry Dunphy and Tawny Little in September 1980.^[8] Before this the station ran two hours of news from 5–7 p.m.

The station reduced this block by one half hour in 1990, when it moved ABC World News Tonight from 7:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. For a time in the late 1980s, its 6:30 p.m. newscast was branded "Eyewitness Update" and served as a final recap of the day's news, similar in nature to an 11 p.m. newscast.

KABC-TV is one of two ABC stations on the West Coast to air World News at 6:30 p.m.; the only other ABC station to do this is KGTV in San Diego. Most other Western ABC stations run this broadcast at 5:30 or 6:00 p.m. When the network soap opera Port Charles ended its run in 2003, channel 7 expanded its midday newscast to a full hour.

KABC-TV is one of two Los Angeles television stations with a full-time presence in California's state capital, Sacramento. Since late 2003, the station has shared resources with sister stations KGO-TV in San Francisco and KFSN-TV in Fresno to staff a Sacramento bureau following Arnold Schwarzenegger's election to the office of Governor of California, during the 2003 California recall.

Notable on-air staff who have worked for the station's news department include Jerry Dunphy, Christine Lund, Bill Bonds, Lisa McRee, Harold Greene, Tawny Little, Laura Diaz, Paul Moyer, Chuck Henry, Dr. George Fischbeck, Regis Philbin, Judd Rose, and Bill Weir. Former channel 7 sports reporters and anchors include former NFL players Lynn Swann, Gene Washington, Jim Hill and Bob Chandler, and former Major League Baseball player (and current Los Angeles Dodgers radio analyst and play-by-play announcer) Rick Monday.

During the 1970s and 1980s the station's newscasts often included spirited mini-debates and commentaries reflecting various political viewpoints. Several notable politicians and political pundits appeared on these segments including Proposition 13 backer Howard Jarvis, former U.S. Representative and Senator John Tunney, Bruce Herschensohn, Bill Press and Baxter Ward. In addition, like many other stations at the time, KABC-TV aired brief editorials from the station's general manager, most notably John Severino, who served throughout the 1980s. This practice was discontinued in 1990.

Today, KABC-TV airs 44 hours and 55 minutes of news a week (with 6 hours and 35 minutes on weekdays, 5 hours on Saturdays, and 7 hours on Sundays), Second most of any TV station in Los Angeles behind KTLA-TV.

Ratings[link]

The introduction of Eyewitness News, followed by the addition of syndicated staples such as The Oprah Winfrey Show (in 1986), Live! with Kelly (in 1991), Jeopardy!, and Wheel of Fortune (both game shows in 1992) has generally allowed KABC to maintain a substantial ratings advantage over its competition.

Leveraging the strength of its sizeable Oprah lead-in at 3:00 p.m, KABC has long held first or second in the ratings for its 4:00 to 6:30 p.m. news block. However, ratings leads for the morning and late news have typically been spirited (and expensive) battles with local stations KTLA and KTTV in the morning, and KNBC (and recently KCBS-TV) at 11:00 p.m.

With its across-the-board ratings success in hand, the station has been known to run quick five-second promos throughout the day that say, "ABC7 – #1 in news, #1 in Southern California." This is a throwback to its openers during the 1980s, when the station proudly proclaimed itself "Number One in Southern California."

Other programming[link]

KABC-TV produces several local shows including Vista L.A.. (which profiles Latino life in Southern California), and Eye on L.A. (which has been on the air in some form since the early 1980s). On weekends, the station airs Eyewitness Newsmakers, hosted by reporter Adrienne Alpert.

The station produces a sports/variety type show branded ABC 7 Sports Zone, which formerly originated from the ESPN Zone in Anaheim. This show airs occasionally following network telecasts of NCAA football and NBA games. Most ABC 7 Sports Zone shows now originate from local sports venues including the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Rose Bowl in Pasadena and Staples Center in Los Angeles, and occasionally at the station's studios in Glendale. It is hosted by Rob Fukuzaki, and is joined during the basketball season by former Los Angeles Laker great Michael Cooper. This program is a spin-off of Monday Night Live, which aired on KABC-TV from 1989 until Monday Night Football left the network after the 2005 NFL season. That show was hosted by Todd Donoho until 1997, and later Bill Weir and Rob Fukuzaki and featured an extensive trivia contest.

The station also produce a weekly entertainment program OnTheRedCarpet, hosted by Rachel Smith and Chris Balish. This program is also aired on other ABC-owned stations.

Prior to ABC's annual telecasts of the Academy Awards, KABC-TV produces a live pre-awards show, An Evening at the Academy Awards: The Arrivals, featuring red carpet interviews and fashion commentary. This show also airs on the network's other owned stations and is syndicated to several ABC affiliates and other broadcasters outside the country. The station also produces and broadcasts post-ceremony show called An Evening at the Academy Awards: The Winners.

In the past, KABC-TV featured various locally produced shows such as AM Los Angeles; a morning talk show which at various times featured personalities Regis Philbin, Sarah Purcell, Ralph Story, Tawny Little, Cristina Ferrare, Cyndy Garvey, and Steve Edwards as hosts. Edwards also hosted a short lived afternoon show in the mid-1980s branded 330, which aired after the network airing of the soap opera The Edge of Night. (Live with Regis and Kelly, co-hosted by Philbin and produced at corporate sister station WABC-TV in New York, now occupies the former time slot of AM Los Angeles.)

On April 30, 1954, KABC-TV aired a preview, Dig Me Later, Vampira, hosted by Maila Nurmi at 11:00pm. The Vampira Show premiered on the following night, May 1, 1954. For the first four weeks, the show aired at midnight, and it moved to 11:00pm on May 29. Ten months later, the series aired at 10:30 p.m., beginning March 5, 1955. As Vampira, Nurmi introduced films while wandering through a hallway of mist and cobwebs. Her horror-related comedy antics included talking to her pet spider Rollo and encouraging viewers to write for epitaphs instead of autographs. When the series was cancelled in 1955, she retained rights to the character of Vampira.

In 1964, Pinky Lee attempted a return to kids TV by hosting a local children's comedy program on KABC-TV. The series was also seen in national syndication for the 1964 and 1965 TV seasons. But the program fell prey to creative interference from the show's producers and from station management. Lee tried to fight off the creative interference, but his efforts were for naught. The 1960s version of "The Pinky Lee Kids TV Show" went off the air after one season.

Dispute with Time Warner Cable[link]

In July 2010, ABC's parent company, Disney, announced that it was involved in another carriage dispute with Time Warner Cable for the first time in ten years. This dispute involved four ABC owned-and-operated stations (including KABC-TV), Disney Channel and the networks of ESPN. If a deal was not in place, the entire Disney cluster would've been removed from Time Warner and Bright House cable systems across the country. On September 2, 2010, Disney and Time Warner Cable reached a long-term agreement to keep the Disney family of channels on its systems.

Staff[link]

Anchors[link]

• Phillip Palmer – weekday mornings 4:30 a.m.-7 a.m. and 11 a.m.
• Leslie Sykes – weekday mornings 4:30 a.m.-7 a.m. and 11 a.m.
• Ellen Leyva – weekdays 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.
• David Ono – weekdays 4 p.m and 6 p.m.
• Marc Brown - weekdays 5 p.m. and 11 p.m
• Michelle Tuzee – weeknights 5 p.m. and 11 p.m.
• John Gregory – weekend mornings
• John Hartung – weekend evenings 4 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m.
• Jovana Lara – weekend evenings 4 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m.
• Christina Salvo - weekend mornings

Weather[link]

• Garth Kemp – weekdays 4:30 a.m.-7 a.m. and 11 a.m.
• Dallas Raines (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist Seal of Approval) – Chief Meteorologist; weeknights at 4 p.m., 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m.
• Danny Romero – weekend evenings 4:30 p.m., 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m.
• Bri Winkler - weekend mornings

Traffic[link]

• Scott Reiff – weekday mornings AIR7HD
• Alysha Del Valle – weekday mornings
• Kalyna Astrinos – weekday afternoons
• Kelly Sanchez - weekday afternoons (fill-in)

Sports[link]

• Rob Fukuzaki – sports director, weeknights at 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m.
• Curt Sandoval – weekends at 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m., weekday sports reporter
• John Hartung – fill-in sports anchor/reporter

Reporters[link]

Pilot reporters:

• Scott Reiff – AM Traffic, Breaking News
• Bill Thomas – Afternoons/Evening, Breaking News reporter
• J.T. Alpaugh – Alternate Breaking News reporter, fill-in

Notable former staff[link]

Rebroadcasters[link]

KABC is rebroadcast on the following translator stations:

• K48IP 48 Daggett – Baker area.
• K19BT 19 Lucerne Valley – Victor Valley area.
• K08IA 8 Newberry Springs – Barstow area.
• K07NH 7 Ridgecrest – Eastern Kern County, California.
• K41GO 41 Ridgecrest – Inyo County, California.

See also[link]

• Circle 7 logo
• KABC (AM) (790 kHz.)
• KLOS-FM (95.5 MHz.)

References[link]

External links[link]

• KABC-TV Website
• ABC7 Wireless
• ABC7 Los Angeles Eyewitness News Fan Site
• Photos of KABC's news set
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KABC-TV
• KABC-DT (digital) coverage map
• Program Information for KABC at TitanTV.com

Gloria Molina
Gloria Molina, 2007
Member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from District 1
Incumbent
Assumed office 1991
Preceded by	Peter F. Schabarum
Personal details
Born	(1948-05-31) May 31, 1948 (age 64)
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Ron Martinez
Children	Valentina
Residence	Los Angeles
Website	http://molina.lacounty.gov

Jesus Gloria Molina (born May 31, 1948)^[1] is an American politician, a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and the current chairwoman of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.^[2]

Background and career[link]

Molina grew up as one of ten children in the Los Angeles suburb of Pico Rivera, California, United States, to a Mexican-American father and Mexican mother. She attended public schools in her hometown, and attended Rio Hondo College, East Los Angeles College and California State University, Los Angeles. While attending college, she worked full time as a legal secretary. Then she became certified as an adult education instructor and taught clerical skills at the East Los Angeles Skills Center.

She was first elected to office in 1982 as State Assemblywoman for the 56th District. In 1987, she was elected to the Los Angeles City Council where she served as the Councilwoman of the First District until 1991. In February 1991, she was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, representing the First Supervisorial District. Ms. Molina is the first Latina in history to be elected to the California State Legislature, the Los Angeles City Council, and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

Prior to being elected to public office, Molina served in the Carter White House as a Deputy for Presidential Personnel. After leaving the White House, she served in San Francisco as a Deputy Director for the Department of Health and Human Services.

One of Molina's significant achievements was her involvement with the Mothers of East Los Angeles, a group formed to organize against a proposed plan to build a prison in East LA. As city councilwoman, she found government unresponsive to her concerns of yet another proposal to build a prison near schools in the predominantly Chicano and Mexican neighborhood.

In April 2006, Molina was honored as the "Hispanic Business Woman of the Year" by Hispanic Business magazine.

Controversies[link]

In April 2008, Molina introduced legislation to the Board of Supervisors which would severely increase penalties on food vendors in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, including East L.A. The new rules would punish parking of a food truck for more than 1 hour with a $1000 fine and/or six months in jail. This move is specifically targeted at vendors operating taco trucks, a cultural institution in East L.A. as well as the county as a whole. Newspaper editorials decried the move, and a petition was quickly set up to attempt to force a repeal of the legislation. The taco vendors have also hired a lawyer to fight their cause.^[3][4]

In June 2010, Molina voted yes with two other Los Angeles County supervisors to boycott Arizona because of SB 1070. Molina claims in her statement that “This law simply goes too far,” said Gloria Molina, the boycott’s primary sponsor. “A lot of people have pointed out that I am sworn as an L.A. County supervisor to uphold the Constitution. All I can say is that I believe that Arizona’s law is unconstitutional.”^[5]

Personal[link]

Molina is married to Ron Martinez, a businessman. They have one daughter, Valentina Gloria Molina Martinez.

See also[link]

• NALEO

References[link]

External links[link]

• Gloria Molina County of Los Angeles Website

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Gunner Wright
Wright in the 2011 indie sci-fi film Love
Born	(1973-08-26) August 26, 1973 (age 38) Eustis, Florida
Residence	Los Angeles, California
Nationality	American
Years active	2007-present
Agent	MAK Company
Notable work(s)	Love, J. Edgar
Influenced by	Paul Newman, Steve McQueen
Home town	Eustis, Florida
Height	6'
Website
www.gunnerwright.com

Gunner Wright is an American film actor known for his role in the film Love and for "portraying" the face and voice of Isaac Clarke in the videogame Dead Space 2. Wright raced motorcycles competitively until the age of 21 when he moved to Southern California. There he began working on Fox Television's Fastlane series and soon began a career in acting. He appeared in director Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar film.

Career[link]

Wright portraying a stranded astronaut aboard the ISS, with director William Eubank during the filming of the 2011 sci-fi film Love.

Wright appeared in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra as a Secret Service Agent. In 2011, Wright starred in the 2011 film Love by director William Eubank. Wright played the main character, American Astronaut Lee Miller who becomes stranded aboard the International Space Station. Wright also stars in Dead Space 2 as Isaac Clarke, developed by Visceral Games and distributed by Electronic Arts. Wright attended the 2010 Comic-Con to promote the game and meet with fans.

Variety described Wright's performance in Love, saying "Wright, shouldering nearly a one-man-show burden, is gamely athletic, all-American and somewhat of a blank slate, like Kubrick's astronauts -- until some unfettered personality begins to seep out."^[1] Ain't It Cool News also described Wright's performance of Captain Lee Miller writing "Gunner Wright carries a large load as the primary screen presence, and he does an excellent job of showing the deterioration of a logical man. Many films turn the loss of one's senses into a frantic, almost comically silly thing – whereas here, we watch [him] bounce between skirting the edge of sanity, and reeling himself in – he's self-aware enough at times to see where things are going. You'd get the sense that most astronauts would handle a situation like this in a similar way."^[2]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Gunner Wright on Twitter
• Gunner Wright at the Internet Movie Database

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Nuttin' But Stringz
Background information
Origin	South Jamaica, Queens, New York, USA
Genres	Classical/Hip-Hop/R&B/Jazz
Years active	2004–present
Labels	NBS Entertainment / Koch Entertainment
Website	http://www.nuttinbutstringz.com
Members
Damien Escobar Tourie Escobar

Nuttin' But Stringz, also known as N.B.S., consists of brothers Damien and Tourie Escobar who both play violin. The musicians from Jamaica, Queens play a blend of classical music, hip-hop,^[1] jazz and R&B.

Biography[link]

The brothers began studying violin at ages 8 and 7, respectively, and eventually studied at the Juilliard School.^[2]

In 2005, the duo entered and won a talent competition at the Apollo Theatre in New York. Their victory on Showtime at the Apollo led to media attention and appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Today Show with Katie Couric, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Around the same time the duo showcased their talents at Carnegie Hall and performed for President George W. Bush at The White House.

On January 8, 2006, the Escobars performed their song Thunder at the debut of the redesigned Cadillac CTS at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Nuttin' But Stringz performed after a classical string quartet. General Motors Corp. executives used the two performances as an analogy, to demonstrate that what used to be good enough (the quartet) needs to be reinvigorated (N.B.S).^{[citation needed]} A video for "Thunder" is also featured on the website for Jack's Big Music Show on Noggin. The exposure continued when they were featured in the first of five commercials featuring local artists on New York's local news channel, NY1.

NBS gained some national attention when their unique brand of music secured the brothers a small part in the 2006 dance movie Step Up, and shortly after CBS featured "Thunder" during the 2007 NCAA Tournament. "Thunder" was also featured in the pilot episode of the television series The Black Donnellys, and was sampled in various television commercials.

In spring 2009, NBS announced via the group's My Space pages that a new album was in the works and was followed later in that year by a hugely successful tour.^[3]

Their music has sold platinum.^[4]

They debuted their song "Winner" on "The Debrief with David Ushery" on New York Nonstop ^[5] on July 23.

In April 2010 Nuttin But Stringz performed on Dancing With The Stars.

The summer of 2010 would take the talented brothers to Sri Lanka where they performed for the IIFA's.

In July 2010 Nuttin But Stringz performed at the ESPY Awards in Los Angeles California and were the third artist to appear in a McDonald's commercial that aired that month.

2010 Nuttin But Stringz cameoed on the MTV Unplugged show for Trey Songz.

On February 13, 2011, Nuttin' But Stringz performed "Winner" for The Boeing Company at the introduction ceremony of their new airplane, the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental.^[6]

In March 2011 the Nuttin But Stringz were featured on The Fresh Beat Band in the episode of "The Mystery of the Missing Violin".

September 22, 2011 Nuttin But Stringz gave the performance of a life time in Uruguay.

[edit] America's Got Talent

Overview[link]

The brothers' big break came when they auditioned for the third season of NBC's America's Got Talent in New York City and received a unanimous yes from all three judges thus advancing to Las Vegas. They were subsequently named to the Top 40, advancing to Hollywood.^[7] They made it through subsequent rounds and were one of the five acts to make it to the finals. The duo ultimately placed third behind the winner Neal E. Boyd and runner-up Eli Mattson.^[8] As a result, the Escobar brothers' music was featured during a montage at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.

Performances/Results[link]

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Singles[link]

Filmography[link]

• Step Up

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Website
• Nuttin' But Stringz at MySpace

Meg Whitman
Whitman speaks at the Tech Museum in San Jose, CA, February 17, 2009
Born	Margaret Cushing Whitman (1956-08-04) August 4, 1956 (age 55) Cold Spring Harbor (Long Island), New York, U.S.[1]
Residence	Atherton, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Princeton University (A.B.) Harvard Business School (M.B.A.)
Occupation	President and CEO of Hewlett-Packard
Political party	Republican
Religion	Presbyterian[2]
Spouse	Griffith Rutherford Harsh IV

Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman (born August 4, 1956) is an American business executive. She is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard.^[3] A native of Long Island, New York, she is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. Whitman served as an executive in The Walt Disney Company where she was vice president of strategic planning throughout the 1980s. In the 1990s, she served as an executive for Procter & Gamble and Hasbro. Whitman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay from 1998 to 2008. During her ten years with the company, she oversaw expansion from 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenue to more than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue.

In February 2009, Whitman announced her candidacy for Governor of California, becoming the third woman in a twenty year period to run for the office. She won the Republican primary in June 2010. The fourth wealthiest woman in the state of California with a net worth of $1.3 billion in 2010,^[4] she spent more of her own money on the race than any other political candidate spent on a single election in American history,^[5][6] spending $144 million total of her own fortune and $178.5 million including donors.^[7] Whitman lost to Jerry Brown in the November 2 election.^[8]