I really, really don't want Meg Whitman to be our next governor (call it anti-CEOism bigotry). How can she blast the "tax and spend" CA liberals in Sacramento, and promise austerity and fiscal discipline, when she's broken campaign spending records in her epic battle to overcome the mighty... Steve... Poizner? She's spent $81M so far, and will at least double that in her fight vs. Jerry Brown. Most of that has been on incessant TV ads, which surveys have shown actually turn off CA voters to her. So she's spent $71M of her private fortune to produce ads which actually hurt her, yet she vows to lay off 40,000 state workers as governor, in order to "trim the fat". The average full time CA state employee made $68k in 2008. So if Whitman cares so much about CA, why doesn't she stop her stupid Spamming and extend 1,000 jobs for a year? Better use of the money to me. Republicans hate government, yet they want to lead it. Well, they use the office not to help the people, but to hook their buddies up. Dems do this too, but less outrageously. Well, at least Whitman isn't a Bible-thumping ideologue, and I doubt she'd get caught in a sex scandal because she makes Hillary Clinton look like a perfect 10.
During this anti-incumbent/anti-government movement, she does play the outsider with business savvy pretty well. But so did Arnold and Dubya.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/04/meg-whitman-spending-meg-_n_601328.html
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