Posted on 02/21/2010 8:21:00 AM PST by SmithL
This month, former Gov. Pete Wilson sent out a letter calling on good Republicans to "unite" behind former eBay CEO Meg Whitman's bid for governor. A largely Democratic effort had been formed to raise $40 million to defeat the billionaire candidate, which Wilson argued forced Team Whitman to launch its general election campaign early.
It was an arrogant move - calling the GOP primary before a single voter has cast a ballot in the June 8 election. Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner is still in the race. No wonder Poizner recently told me, "She wants to be ordained."
After pouring $39 million of her own money into her campaign, Whitman has blanketed the airwaves with commercials and, as a result, has been trouncing Poizner in the polls. Poizner, who is also rich and put about $19 million into his effort, has preferred to campaign using free media, including debates with former rival Tom Campbell. (Which Whitman skipped.) Poizner wants to debate at the GOP convention in March. Whitman says no.
I reached Wilson on his cell phone Wednesday to ask: How can a candidate who never has run for office, and ducked every debate to date, dare to try to elbow out of the primary the one candidate who has won statewide office?
Wilson answered that even though Whitman is skipping a debate at the March GOP convention, she has agreed to a later debate. I should understand, he said, that Whitman is doing what all savvy candidates, including the likely Democratic nominee, Attorney General Jerry Brown, do - limiting debates and press interviews. "You don't accept every one," Wilson explained, using his why-do-I-even-have-to-say-this voice. "I think this is small potatoes, Debra."
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The state unions ( SEIU) and nurses union have massive donations thanks to Jerry Brown last stint in the Governor’s office.
I have been stuck here for two and half years and the Unions are running ads non stop on the radio.
Whitman can be trusted, like Mitt Romneycare,
only to help Obama —— secretly.
This video is not part of a speech and it is not edited, why are you doing so much lying?
Meg Whitman: Romney handpicked me and "I'm A Huge Fan Of Van Jones"
It’s not their agenda. It just makes them feel better about themselves. It is their way of saying “I am more Conservative and Purer than Thou.”
Yet when I ask them to run for Governor of California, they say nothing.
Agreed. McClintock is one of the best conservatives ever but you need big bucks to win in CA. Sad but true.
The state is so disfunctional now that maybe some people will actually vote for conservatives but who knows.
What is the point of trying to smear and destroy the GOP leading candidate?
Do you even live in California ?
I didn’t call you a name, I pointed out that you are lying when you try to convince people that the video is “heavily edited” and is of a “speech that was written for her”.
It is Meg Whitman speaking to reporters from her heart and it is not edited at all.
this is the same crowd that smeared McCain and helped get Obama elected.
Are you going to challenge Jerry SEIU/ACCORN Brown ??
Do you have the money to fight off the 40 million the SEIU, ACCORN, Sierra Club, MOveon .org are planning to spend to get Radical leftist Jerry Brown elected ?????
After all the info Glenn Beck gave us about VAN JONES, it’s important to know that Meg “greatly admires him”; “he’s a genius”. If you think I’m making this up - there is a video of Meg saying these very things.
I DON’T WANT HER ANYWHERE NEAR CALIFORNIA.
If you don’t know who VAN JONES is, then do some research and find out .. you will be shocked to hear his views; or see the videos of him spewing his garbage. And .. it was even more shocking that our current president appointed Van Jones to a position within his administration.
LOL, it has been a while since I have seen this much arrogance, it is very similar to Meg Whitman and Mitt Romney.
This is the primary, conservatives have an interest in primaries and they do not support your candidate.
You do believe that people can not support that basket case and soulless, Mitt Romney clone, here on freerepublic don't you?
You aren’t going to get a decent Republican candidate to do anything in California. In this case tho I’d vote for Arlen Spectre if he moved to california and ran against Barbara boxer.
Its simple a choice here in CA.
Poizner is no conservative.
Poizner donated then limit to Al Gore's recount fund in 2000.
Whitman's campaign so far has been positive and free of attacks on Poizner vs good old Steve who called in
Jerry Brown in order to smear his rival.
I don't even care about Mitt Romney.
What does he have to do with anything ?
So, Are you going to run here ?
Do you have the millions to run here?
Please give a url to prove this claim that you keep making.
Whitman? Hey! 'Wanna buy a bridge?
Mitt Romney and Meg Whitman are joined at the hip, that is why Romney bought a home here.
Whitman is as liberal as anyone in the race and she is more disgusting as a human being.
Vote Whitman, vote Romney, part of the purpose of her race is to position her to assist the Romney presidential aspirations and his political power base. You even go so far as to seem to support Jerry Brown over Whitman’s Republican opponent.
Get this , he blamed his WIFE.
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