video-Meg Whitman: Romney handpicked me and "I'm A Huge Fan Of Van Jones"
Posted on 04/24/2010 11:27:29 AM PDT by SmithL
National Republican leaders lined up behind GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman at a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser Friday night, with stars such as U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz joining Whitman on the stage of the Sofitel Hotel in Redwood City.
The event, however, hit a few bumps before it got started, with a running protest organized by the California Nurses Association crashing the fundraiser.
Dozens of demonstrators, many wearing blond wigs modeled after Whitman's cut, surprised the well-dressed attendees by descending from the hotel's elevators and approaching within feet of the ballroom's doors, observers said.
Many of the same protesters, led by Los Angeles teacher and actress Elaine Burn who was dressed as Queen Meg, had also protested outside a Whitman fundraiser in Sacramento this afternoon and at another Whitman fundraiser in Beverly HIlls last night. This was the first time they made it into the venue of the fundraiser.
All was calm by the time the event got under way inside the ballroom where the guests outdid each other in praising Whitman. For her part, Whitman called both McCain and Shultz, individually, "a great American and great patriot."
Romney lauded the virtues of examining state budgets as if they were corporate balance sheets and cutting waste. He also lambasted what he said were Sacramento's anti-business ways.
"California politicians have smothered the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation," Romney said.
Bush talked about how he had implemented more testing and accountability in Florida schools, and said Whitman would do the same in California.
"I know she has the fortitude, the determination, the skill and the leadership to stay the course and take on the adults in the system,"
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Take your pick.Easy for you to say, you're not in California. I'll be voting for whoever isn't Jerry Brown.
None of the above.
video-Meg Whitman: Romney handpicked me and "I'm A Huge Fan Of Van Jones"
Business people always line the pockets of people on both sides of the aisle who may make decisions affecting their business. However, you conveniently left out all of the GOP people to whom Whitman donated much more substantial amounts including, Pat Toomey, the RNC, the CA GOP , Rob Portman, McCain/Palin, Romney, David Harmer, David Dreir etc....
Also you leave out Poizner's most unconscionable act... when partisan fever was at its highest, he supported Al Gore during the Bush-Gore recount!
Steve Poizner is a Ronnie(Reagan)-come-lately to the Republican Party as it has been discovered that Poizner donated money to the Gore/Leiberman Recount Committee in 2000.
IRS records* confirm that Mr. Poizner gave the hefty sum of $10,000 to the recount effort, a fund to which Jane Fonda is also listed as having donated $100,000. Records also show that Poizner donated $1,000 to Al Gore's run for president as well as $2,000 to John Kerry's.
Exactly.
Mister your name is hypocrite, McClintock endorses the most conservative of the two viable candidates in a race while you are promoting the most liberal, and you huff because you want to pretend that McClintock should have endorsed some guy that isn't really in the race at all.
If you are conservative then follow McClintock's lead and support Poizner, or go ahead and support that Naritelli that you think is candidate for those with "principles", but don't vote for Whitman.
"In 1999, campaign finance records show that Whitman gave mostly to GOP causes and donated $1,000 to George W. Bush, although at least two news reports listed her as endorsing Gore. After she appeared at Gore's side at an event that year, she told The Chronicle that she had donated to both presidential candidates and did not intend to take sides in the race.
http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-04-07/news/20837922_1_billionaire-republican-meg-whitman-wealthy-former-silicon-valley-commissioner-steve-poizner/2
Sorry, Tom made a huge mistake. Nobody's perfect.
No your mistake is supporting the most liberal republican in the race, which reflects your politics.
Tom McClintock did not make a mistake, he looked at the two candidates and chose the most conservative one that could win.
I know that you, Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman are against the immigration law just implemented in Arizona for instance.
Secondly, neither I, or Whitman, oppose the AZ law. She merely said there are "better ways" - which is true. The better way would have been for the federal government to do its job. She gave an ambiguous statement, like other politicians (see Tancredo, Rubio, Jeb Bush etc), but she did not oppose it as you allege.
Whitman's immigration policy sounds similar to the one espoused by Fred Thompson, Palin et al...
For the record, I fully support the AZ law. They had no choice, under the circumstances. I wish they could have waited until after November, however, and I hope it doesn't backfire on us.
It is easy to see why you are a Whitman supporter
California’s most respected conservative who is Tom McClintock, not the rino, Bill Jones, has endorsed Steve Poizner.
Whitman endorsed Al Gore and loved Van Jones when she was promoting him to the media.
Whitman is against the Arizona law.
You have been hitting the threads whining about the Arizona law also.
Your posting history is rino territory, you actually want Meg Whitman in office.
Whitman did endorse Al Gore in 2000 according to Cox News Services and Inforworld, that would have been months after her donating to John Kerry’s reelection and before supporting Maria Cantwell in 2002, even though she wasn’t registered during those years. In 2003 she donated heavily to the Democratic Committee and Barbara Boxer and of course has given to other Democrats.
You do want Meg Whitman to lead California Republicans, she is a good match for your politics, it is no wonder that famed conservative warrior Tom McClintock is disliked by you.
I have to question how much you know about California conservatives if you do not know the respect for McClintock out here.
“In 1999, campaign finance records show that Whitman gave mostly to GOP causes and donated $1,000 to George W. Bush, although at least two news reports listed her as endorsing Gore. After she appeared at Gore’s side at an event that year, she told The Chronicle that she had donated to both presidential candidates and did not intend to take sides in the race.”
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/06/MNT01CQFP1.DTL#ixzz0mR2RhrPe
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