Posted on 09/08/2009 10:15:47 AM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
Republican, Governor of California
California’s economy is in turmoil. With a $15 billion deficit and an unemployment rate significantly higher than the national average, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman may be just who the state needs at the helm to turn things around.
Whitman’s business portfolio includes work for some powerhouse brands including Procter & Gamble, Disney and Hasbro. But she is best known for her tenure at eBay, during which time she grew the company from 30 to 15,000 employees. Now that’s job growth.
To call her business savvy seems an understatement. Whitman’s goal is to channel her knowledge and experience from the private sector into the government sector to create jobs in California and grow the state’s economy. She has also listed K-12 education as a state priority.
Whitman spoke recently with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer about the state’s economy and the role of government spending in the rapid growth of California’s deficit. Although few would think Whitman the type of leader to make rash decisions of such magnitude, Blitzer’s first question to Whitman, nonetheless, was, “You sure you want to be governor of California?”
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