The political ads are becoming more heated. The insults are flying. Each party’s weaknesses are being highlighted for what seems more like entertainment purposes than taking each other down. Tuesday night’s third and final gubernatorial debate brought about some interesting remarks from both Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman.

Brown has continued his main argument of telling California he is more qualified because of his extensive political career. The animated Democratic candidate definitely has more points on keeping the audience laughing and connecting with a majority of the population but he needs to advocate a strategic plan on how to get California’s economy up and going and its people back to work.

Whitman was quick to jump on his lack of an effective plan. When Brown went on about how the top leaders, like the governor, should reduce their salary Whitman replied, “You want to reduce the governor’s budget by 10-15%? The governor’s budget is $18 million which means California will have an approximate extra of $1.7 million. This will not help the state.”

What a rebuttal!

Even though I have not been the biggest fan of her obviously rehearsed talking-point style approach to debate, her response was a valid one. With a $19.1 billion deficit, political leaders need to be doing much more than sacrificing their high salaries - though this would definitely help.

Whitman, as the businesswoman, said she wanted to help big and small business in California to keep the state competitive. She mentioned tax breaks and wanted to focus on the “97 percent of jobs in the economy and not just the 3 percent green jobs.”

Brown stated that we should use California’s sunshine and more solar panels and sustainable energy. The very fact that only 3 percent of jobs are green should be changed; those 97 percent other businesses should each should be LEED certified, have an e-waste management center and should recycle. California is on the forefront of the environmental movement and encouraging the green practices in other businesses could lead to more jobs. I propose that the plastic bag industry work should go into the recycling industry - or, at the very least, make reusable bags.

The most heated exchanged came about when Brown had to apologize to Whitman for his suspected wife calling her a “whore”.

In case you missed it:

BROWN: It’s unfortunate. I’m sorry it happened. I apologize, Ms. Whitman.

WHITMAN: Every Californian, and especially women, know exactly what’s going on here – and that is a deeply offensive term to women.

BROWN: Well, could I just interject? Have you chastised your chairman, Pete Wilson, who called the Congress whores to the public sector unions?

WHITMAN: You know better than that, Jerry. That’s a completely different thing. The fact you are defending your campaign for a slur and, um, you know, a personal attack on me I think it's not befitting of California. It's not befitting of the office that you're running for.

In 1992, former Governor Pete Wilson said, "I blame the Congress for being such whores to public employees unions that they would pass that kind of legislation." Wilson was referring to the fact that a federal judge had ruled California might be liable for up to $500 million in damages over its issuance of IOUs during a budget crisis.

There is no difference between the two situations and who had the right of calling one another a “whore”. Each person disapproved of what another was doing and called them an insult. Technically speaking, if you are a high-ranking political official or have ties to one you cannot be using language like this freely. People focus too much on the insult rather than what they are insulting on.

The gubernatorial race is a close call and its up to voters to make that decision. Get out and vote!