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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:21 PM
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Meg Whitman launches ads in campaign for governor


Republican Meg Whitman underscored the advantage of wealth in the 2010 race for governor, launching paid advertisements today for her campaign nine months before GOP voters will determine their nominee.

The introductory ads, which the campaign said were running on radio stations across California, highlight Whitman’s experience at several well-known firms. Among them is EBay, where she was chief executive until two years ago.

“We need to reinvent California, and that reinvention starts at the top,” says the ad.

Whitman, who has put $19 million into her campaign, appeared before supporters today at a sweltering, open-air gathering in Fullerton. She said she was formally opening the campaign, although it has been underway in earnest since February, when she first announced she was running.
Her remarks today were a replay of speeches she has made since the spring. She lamented regulation and taxes that she said strangle job-creation in California and demanded reforms to improve the state’s public schools.

She repeated her February vow to cut at least $15 billion in state spending and to eliminate redundant government agencies, and said she would lay off 40,000 state employees. But, as then, she offered no specific cuts and did not suggest which agencies or employees she would target.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/meg-whitman-launches-ads-governor.html
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PretzelWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:22 PM
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1. Does she have a "Buy Me Now" option? or are rich donors only able to
enter bids in her auction to service the rich elites by stoking the resentments of the stupid poor?
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:31 PM
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2. Well, if you donate $100, you get a pez dispenser... - n/t
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Proud Liberal Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:52 PM
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4. "Buy Me Now"
:rofl: Good one!!!
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brentspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:35 PM
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3. She and her successor destroyed ebay
Turned it into Fee-bay.
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chalky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 04:03 PM
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5. No kidding....marginalized the mom and pop sellers and led to the Power Seller takeover.
And the huge influx of sellers from China.

Wait...squash the little guy...pave the way for the Big Guys and China....
Whoa...she really is the perfect GOP candidate.
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iceman66 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 04:54 PM
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6. True.
If the current ebay business model is her record of accomplishment, I wouldn't vote for her for dog-catcher, let alone governor.
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