Meg Whitman is actually a Mitt Romney protege. She only worked for McCain for a while after Romney was forced out of the race. Whitman had endorsed Romney and worked on his campaign.
"But for the next year and a half, the center of Romney's political universe will shift west to Sacramento, where key parts of his operation have reassembled on behalf of Meg Whitman, a longtime friend and former business colleague who this month entered next year's Republican primary to become the governor of California."
