liberal and brown depicts whitman as a greedy, failed ceo, and a slash and burn conservative. wouldn t it be nice every time meg whitman told a lie her nose would grow. reporter: lying is not obvious in california s gubernatorial race. he raised taxes as governor of california and had a surplus when we took office and a deficit when he left. whitman said california lost jobs under jerry brown and 1.9 million jobs were created an spent millions saying joe brown raised tax, the fact is he cut $4 billion in taxes. reporter: true, false or just misleading? if you are looking for truth, don t watch political ads. sometimes they tell the truth. but, they almost never tell the whole truth. politics and later served two terms as governor, big spending, turned a surplus into a billion dollar deficit. reporter: true brown raised some tax and reduced others and