Posted on 09/14/2009 9:52:59 AM PDT by AreaMan
She's tall, blonde and looks you straight in the eye on meeting. You tell her about a local shipping port issue. She asks for more details and clearly understands the economic significance of the issue in the greater scheme of things.
A few minutes later she's at the podium telling her personal story in an engaging way, then shifting to the very large problems facing the state. In clear, crisp fashion she tells her audience what she wants to do about them.
She is Meg Whitman and she is running for Governor of California. Like Ronald Reagan more than four decades earlier, she is traveling the state introducing herself to potential supporters in cities and towns large and small.
Her audiences know the problems: a state budget that has shot up by 80 percent over the last 10 years; painful spending cuts and added taxes this year to get the budget temporarily balanced; a school system with results near the bottom of the 50 states; an overly large bureaucracy; an ineffectual legislature -- for starters.
She says, "It's better to do three things at 100 percent than 15 things at 20 percent," and names the three: job growth, government spending, and education.
If you read that in a campaign brochure your reaction might be ho-hum, but hearing it from this woman who knows her issues and statistics gives the statement the ingredients needed: conviction and determination.
It's widely understood that California's regulatory burdens and high taxes are keeping new businesses out and driving away some existing ones. When she says she will set out to streamline the regulatory process "in a very aggressive way," you believe her.
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Her gushing support of Van Jones in the past makes her null and void in my book.
Projectile GAG!
I’ll keep an ear and an eye out.
Right. the Meg Whitman who had very kind words for Van Jones before the scandal broke?
That Scott Ott sure can write some satire...
The headline should have the “barf” alert.
lol. You had me scrolling up quick to be sure it really wasn’t Scott Ott!
Sounded great until they mentioned the name Meg Whitman.
No way. She is a at the very least a RINO and we have too many political games being played.
I’ve pretty much given up on waiting for a “New Reagan”. Now I’m hoping for a “New McCarthy”, Joe McCarthy!
Bingo! I’m still laughing ;)
Beware of people who went to Harvard Business School.
b.s.
she’s best buds with romney.
she loaned part of her governor’s-race staff space to
rombots.
I will be registering as a democRat in CA to vote in the primary. I will vote for the craziest moonbat for gov.
I will not vote for a Rino..no way. If we have to go down..we need to go down in flames to get a fix.
There is no such thing as a fiscal conservative and social liberal..they two just don’t go toghether.
BARFMAO!!
I think she’d be a good governor for California.
Alot of people were obviously fooled by Van Jones.
Same as they were by Obama.
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