Posted on 09/22/2009 8:15:17 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Billionaire former eBay CEO and political neophyte Meg Whitman officially announced her candidacy for California governor today in Orange County, vowing to cut 40,000 state government jobs and lower taxes.
The 53-year-old Atherton resident, who registered as a Republican in 2007, told supporters in Fullerton that "Californians want to trust their leaders again. They want to be told the truth.
"And most of all," she said, "they want to live in a place of opportunity and optimism, not a place of small dreams and scaled-down ambitions."
Whitman will battle state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner and former Rep. Tom Campbell in the Republican primary June 8. On the Democratic side, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has declared his candidacy and state Attorney General and former governor Jerry Brown is expected to challenge him.
Whitman, who had a spotty voting record until a couple years ago, launched the first big shot in the race today with a statewide radio advertising campaign touting her business experience.
"I don't know if I've seen a statewide media campaign launch this early before," said Jon Fleischman, Southern California chairman of the state Republican Party and publisher of the flashreport.org blog.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
You aren’t it you socialist bitch!
Screw you, go find it yourself if you don’t believe him!
old school was very helpful at #18, and I thanked him.
You know what you can do.
Every time I vote for a pro-choice Republican for governor of California, we get burned. Never again.
Sorry Meg, I’ll stay home or vote for the Constitution Party’s candidate...if he’s pro-life that is.
I normally vote for Republicans ... but they gotta be pro-life.
A pro-life person getting elected in LIBURAL Kawlifornia?
Dream on! Every woman I know in that state is pro-choice.
Yeah, my reaction too. It didn't bother me so much that she said something nice about someone she probably barely knew, it bothered me that she met him on a global warming cruise.
Coup de grace for me. We've already got one Swartzenegger, we don't need another.
Cheers
My sentiments. I keep writing in McClintock. Its pointless, but it makes me feel better.
She’s also fully backed by the Romney machine.
Thanks for digging out the link... I knew I had seen it, wasn’t sure where to look...
Right. We don’t want to “trust” our “leaders.” Gubmint is not our friend. We want it shrunk down to constitutional size and leashed.
I’m in California and I want to Starve The Beast.
She really doesn’t get it, does she?
Free citizens in this republic can elected representatives and an elected person to preside over the executive brnach of government.
Congress and the president are NOT our leaders!
You must not know very many women in California.
Whitman: Epic Fail.
Ajay is a big-time Slick Willard disciple. Tells you all you need to know. ;-)
Interesting.
Whitman announced today, and I’ve already heard a Whitman for Governor commercial on the radio.
Well made commercial, too.
2010 is starting.
How dare you describe a Whitman commercial as “well made”?!?!?! Don’t you know that you are expected to revile anything and everything about the woman? /sarcasm
Reagan was pro-life. Jerry Brown in his first incarnation was pro-life (he has changed). Deukmajian was pro-life. A pro-life candidate equipped with the conservative message can win in California. California is a conservative state with two liberal cities.
The GOP "misunderestimates" voters in California. They came out enmasse to vote for prop 8. They will support conservative causes and conservative candidates. When they are presented with RINOs and weak-kneed pretend wannabe conservatives, they stay home.
And I suspect you don’t represent the majority in California. I wish that was the majority opinion, but I doubt it is.
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