Meg Whitman donates $20 million more to her Calif. governor campaign

[Newsjock]

Source: San Jose Mercury News

Surprise! Billionaire Meg Whitman's campaign won't go broke after all.

Whitman, the front-runner for the Republican nomination for governor, will announce today (Tuesday) that she contributed $20 million more to her war chest late Monday, the Mercury News has learned.

That means the former eBay chief executive has donated $59 million to her campaign so far, with two months to go before the primary and seven months left before the general election.

,,, Whitman has vowed to shell out as much as $150 million in her quest to become California's next governor. The current record for political self-funding is held by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who ponied up $108 million of his own money for his 2009 re-election bid.

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_14825596

[saltpoint]

1. Via PayPal, no doubt.

Sorry... no money orders.

[Skink]

5. On ebay I'd wait for a money order or check.

to guard against chargebacks. I'm sure she'd wait until everything cleared.

[saltpoint]

6. : )

Yep. Ol' Meg's a crafty one.

[Hannah Bell]

2. she has a spare $60 million to spend on a political campaign. I wonder if she needs to be taxed

more?


Meg Whitman, descendant of 150 years of big money.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7694259&mesg_id=7697838

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7694259&mesg_id=7694259

[bluestateguy]

3. Can Californians program their V-chips to block her ads?

nt

[napi21]

4. HMMM.contributions not going to well for ya huh? Too bad.

Spend your entire fortune and I don't think ou'll ever see the bed in the governorn's mansion!
I think Brown is going to win anyway!

[blondeatlast]

7. What's the salary for guv? I mean, think about it for a moment.

Things that make ya go hmm...

[Ratty]

9. Exactly. A woman like that looks at this as an investment

And she expects a full return on that investment. She is not someone who feels called to public service. She's just another hog that wants her shot at the trough.

[aquart]

8. This woman is insufficiently taxed.

No one should be so rich there is nothing left to buy but her government.