For Meg Whitman, Money Can't Buy Love...Or An Election
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Meg Whitman is spending almost a million dollars a day in her bid to be California’s next governor, and with the recent USC/Los Angeles Poll showing Whitman 5 points behind Brown among likely voters only 32 days before the election, her spending spree is unlikely to slow down.
Meg Whitman's got plenty of green - will she get our vote? Photo by flickr user whiteafrican.
When I think of 119 million dollars, which last happened when I was 8 years old and owned a make-believe business with my cousin, I’m at a loss for words. I can’t even begin to process what it means to be able to spend that much money in a lifetime, let alone in 15 months. But clearly Whitman knows and doesn’t seem to have any qualms about it.
When questioned about her spending on one occasion, she said it was necessary because [Jerry] Brown’s name recognition was already so high. She had to spend that kind of money to be on equal footing.
Whitman has dropped almost $90 million of her money on TV and radio ads no one can escape, $19 million for political communications specialists, $3.5 million for a media advisor, $3.7 million for direct mail pieces, $4 million for an image consultant, and almost $3 million dollars for her top three senior advisers.
Brown, on the other hand, had spent less than a million dollars total by August. Such a disparity between both their campaign finances and sheer numbers of staff and resources might mean good things for Whitman in November, but that is far from certain.
While many voters find Whitman’s strong business and political outsider background appealing, others are still skeptical of her, and for good reason.
How does someone show no interest in politics by not voting for thirty years and then decide to run for governor in a state whose GDP is the 7th highest in the world?
Is she bored? Looking for a challenge? Because that’s most certainly what she’ll get.
In such trying economic times, a 20-billion-dollar budget deficit and a gridlocked legislature, you need a governor who understands the inner workings of the political process. You need someone who has a rapport with current legislators and can use that to achieve compromise. California already had its chance at a business-savvy governor who promised growth and prosperity and delivered neither. Not again.
Currently, Whitman finds herself entrenched in a controversy about her employment of an illegal immigrant. Whether she knew her housekeeper was illegal seven years ago or just last June isn’t the point. She is now off message and, worst of all, having to defend herself -- the last position in which a candidate wants to be.
Whitman is not yet out of the race. Her bottomless pocket book has and will keep her within a few points of Brown. But Californians know something she doesn’t: Money can’t buy our vote.
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[...] For Meg Whitman, Money Can't Buy Love…or an ElectionNeon Tommy… Angeles Poll showing Whitman 5 points behind Brown among likely voters only 32 days before the election, her spending spree is unlikely to slow down. …and more » [...]
[...] For Meg Whitman, Money Can't Buy Love…or an ElectionNeon Tommy… Angeles Poll showing Whitman 5 points behind Brown among likely voters only 32 days before the election, her spending spree is unlikely to slow down. …and more » [...]
[...] For Meg Whitman, Money Can't Buy Love…or an ElectionNeon Tommy… Angeles Poll showing Whitman 5 points behind Brown among likely voters only 32 days before the election, her spending spree is unlikely to slow down. …and more » [...]
[...] For Meg Whitman, Money Can't Buy Love…or an ElectionNeon Tommy… Angeles Poll showing Whitman 5 points behind Brown among likely voters only 32 days before the election, her spending spree is unlikely to slow down. …and more » [...]
[...] For Meg Whitman, Money Can't Buy Love…or an ElectionNeon Tommy… Angeles Poll showing Whitman 5 points behind Brown among likely voters only 32 days before the election, her spending spree is unlikely to slow down. …and more » [...]
[...] For Meg Whitman, Money Can't Buy Love…or an ElectionNeon Tommy… Angeles Poll showing Whitman 5 points behind Brown among likely voters only 32 days before the election, her spending spree is unlikely to slow down. …and more » [...]
GO MEG WHITEMAN!!! beat jerry brown
Griff Harsh, the husband of California gubernatorial candidate Nutneg Whitman, acknowledged in a statement on Thursday that "it is possible" he received and wrote notes on a letter from the Social Security Administration back in 2003, regarding the former housekeeper. The Whitman/ Harsh household then fired their housekeeper in June 2009 (after nine years of service), when Nutmeg handlers decided that she was an election liability.
Meg, Meg, Meg, where do I start, you have reportedly spent $119 million of your own money to get elected Governor but you couldn’t use some of it to get your housekeeper (after nine years of service) some legal help to get her papers, and worse you lied about it. Wow, what a WITCH, of course I meant it with a “B”.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#39450925
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGRrNs8-s5w
But your comments on holding employers accountable for hiring undocumented workers real takes the cake, I assume you exempt yourself and your husband, or will you be turning yourself in.
Meg on holding employers accountable:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4fWLHiw8zA
Meg you think you can buy the election, but what puzzles many is if you real cared and loved California then why not do your civic duty and vote, seems more rhetoric than anything else.
In good times we might give you a try but not in our disaster mode that we find ourselves in after that so-called outsider Independent Republican, named Arnold Schwarzenegger (sold to us by radio personalities John and Ken), ruined our state, yah we will trust another one of you liars, think not. And another thing nine years this maid was in your house, in your house and you failed to learned this major thing about her, come on this sounds like a huge lie that no one can believe in.
Ebay paid out $200,000 because Nutmeg assaulted an employee, so it’s not the first time she has mistreated an employee. Good luck winning Nutmeg, money will buy you admiration from the majority just from the Gay Old Party (GOP), but not from all of California.
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