Oh lord I cannot stand Meg Whitman.

[Initech]

Seriously she's trying to buy the CA governorship the same way the Yankees bought the world series last year. And the worst defense is that the only thing she can come up with against her opponents is that they're "way too liberal". Um yeah we've been run by conservative assholes for the last 30 years and that hasn't worked has it? The last thing we need is another money-hungry conservative. And the one guy we elected who actually was liberal was recalled for this man:

[NYC_SKP]

1. She ran a political infomercial this morning after Face the Nation.

She's got the money, she's slick, she's evil.

:puke:

http://www.jerrybrown.org/

:patriot:

[Initech]

3. Yeah! I saw that while flipping through the channels!

It seriously reminded me of Bush's staged town hall meetings where all he did was put pre-screened "patriots" in the same room together and rejected any dissenters. it was just nauseating. :puke:

[wtmusic]

2. Lots of attack ads, GOP playbook

Hope she goes down in flames, after spending a fortune.

[tblue]

4. Oh me, too. I saw that ad for the first time today

during the Giants game. "Steve Poizner is a big spending liberal, blah blah blah." It actually made him sound almost palatable to me. I cannot STAND Meg Whitman or anything about her. She hit all the ugly notes to describe Poizner -- about abortion and Prop 13 and agreeing with Obama and the stimulus. The yutz.

[Initech]

7. A true teabagger candidate, no question about that.

[diane in sf]

16. I saw that ad too--it made me think a lot more highly of Poizner--he did a lot of stuff I agree with

[DJ13]

5. Here on our Comcast cable she's running interactive campaign ads

At the bottom of the screen it has an interactive button that says "press here to join the campaign as a volunteer", which I presume takes you to a separate menu in the On Demand section to get more info.

[underseasurveyor]

6. Oh but Dick Cheney endorses her

What's not to love...


/barf

[FrenchieCat]

8. IF she even gets close to the Governor's mansion after years of Arnold,

I'm selling my house and moving to another state.

If californians are that stupid, then I don't want
to be counted in those numbers.

[Initech]

10. Totally agree.

Of course one of the states I'm considering moving to is represented by Mitch McConnell so it's you're damned if you do and damned if you dont.

[Hawkeye-X]

15. Move t o Colorado.

Water's warm, and we've got a very solid Democratic representation.

State Legislature is Democratic. Senators are Democratic. 5 of 7 reps are Democratic.

Denver's Democratic (and weed's legal up to 1 oz)

Boulder's Democratic

The Western Slope, suprisingly enough, is very purple, but leaning blue.

Hawkeye-x

[Kerrytravelers]

9. I am so sick of that woman and the idiot running against her in the primary.

I can wait to see the Jerry Brown ads.

[inna]

11. She's a beast. Just heard her ad on the local channel about how we should

"stand up to the unions" and the "unions-controlled politicians", and how pension funds are the main source of all our problems.

And how she's going to send the national guard to enforce the border.

That woman is a fascist monster. If California votes for her, we're done.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

12. She's like a stealth Carly Fiorina

She makes a point of being more smiley-faced, and Carly has the mountain well-deserved bad press (I worked at HP for a month and a half as a contactor during her "reign"...people HATED her ass), but neither of them belong in the driver's seat.

And yeah, she's trying to buy her way into it, and if California is stupid enough to put her in, California deserves whatever it gets.

[villager]

13. watching an ad right now -- Poizner running to the *right* of Whitman

...with a clip of her daring to say she'd oppose Arizona's immigration law...

[Initech]

14. Yeah it's hard to see which candidate will get the endorsement of the tea party.

[Raine]

18. Sickening out all the repukes running here are

trying to out wingnut each other. :puke:

[K8-EEE]

17. I'M SOOOOOOO SICK OF HER RADIO ADS!!

What a doofus using that warmed over GWB/Arnie "I'm gonna be like a CEO!" bullshit. Anybody who doesn't know that you don't run government like you run a for-profit business is too stupid to be in the running! And the never ending, meaningless cliche's ala "government is BROKEN!" Yeah because of Arnie and you're just as bad if not WORSE....I can NOT stand her!

[uponit7771]

19. Republicans love to break government then complain that government is broken, you'd think she'd be..

...running away from Arnold or any similarities of him

[hypocrisyandlies]

24. +1 n/t

[uponit7771]

20. Republicans love to break government then complain that government is broken, you'd think she'd be..

...running away from Arnold or any similarities of him

[K8-EEE]

26. Exactly!

"Oh look how did that become broken? Let's CUT TAXES AND SPENDING! This time that will MAGICALLY SOLVE OUR CRUMBLING INFRASTRUCTURE AND DEBT!" What idiots are still buying the fascist fairy tales. Only the freepers and they can't stand her either.

[Hannah Bell]

21. Meg Whitman: 5 generations of ruling class wealth on both sides of the family

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Hannah%20Bell/111

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




Just a taste from dad's side:


....Henry Hobart Taylor, who made his millions in farm equipment (Aultman & Taylor) & timepieces (Elgin), as well as with judicious investments in Chicago real estate...

...son Hobart Chatfield Taylor contested the will & got the whole $2 million.

On top of this, Hobart inherited about $3.5 million from his "immensely wealthy" uncle Wayne Chatfield of Cincinnati (his mother's brother), on the condition he add "Chatfield" to his last name. Thus Hobart Chatfield Taylor became Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor, investor & moderately successful author...

HC Chatfield-Taylor also married well. His first wife Rose was the daughter of Charles B Farwell, Illinois senator & banker, who left her a million of her own.

His second wife was Estelle Barbour/Barber Stillman, daughter of a stove manufacturer & widow of banker & sugar refinery heir George Schley Stillman (Rosen, Stillman & Co., NYC).

HC Chatfield Taylor's son Wayne (grandma Adelaide's brother) was a member of FDR's cabinet (Commerce, Treasury) & President of the Export-Import Bank during WWII. He was a banker...



William Whitman started in the mercantile business in New Brunswick, then went to Boston & joined Beebe, Richardson & Co.

James Beebe was a former partner & business associate of Junius Morgan, father of JP Morgan.

The "Richardson" in the combination was George Carter, merchant, financier, politician. GC Richardson financed & was agent for a lot of the New England textile businesses, a director of the connected Union Bank & Mutual Life Insurance Cos, & also came from a wealthy family.

His second cousin once removed was the great-grandpa of current New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, whose ancestry you can read about here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4771159


William stayed 11 years with Beebe/Richardson, then went into the management of textile mills (Arlington Mills, probably related to his connections with Richardson), culminating in the establishment of his own/corporate partnership milling enterprises (Whitman Mills, Manomet Mills, Nonquitt Spinning Company, Nashawena Mills) most of them in New Bedford.

He pursued related activities (e.g. Pres. National Association of Woolen Manufacturers) & some unrelated ones (e.g. Board of Equitable Life Insurance Co., Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of NYC). He married Jane Hallett, the daughter of another British loyalist...

He & his brother also pursued other manufacturing sidelines, including munitions...

His son Hendricks Hallett Whitman was born in Massachussetts (1884) & got a Harvard (1906) education. He married the heiress Adelaide Chatfield Taylor & lived in Boston, pursuing his career as "merchant & manufacturer," presumably in the family textile business...

It appears that he contracted a second marriage to the daughter of lumber baron Harley H Danforth around 1933; she was his wife in the 1940s.

His son HH "Hal" Whitman was a Wall Streeter type, & Meg's dad, as previously noted.

Thus, Meg comes from multiple lines of great wealth & great connections. This is her major qualification for being governor of California....


Interesting that so many governors & governor wanna-bes are heirs of a rather tightly interconnected circle of wealth (Meg Whitman, Christy Todd Whitman, Jeb & George Bush, Bill Richardson, Nelson Rockefeller -- & likely others as well -)

[Vinca]

22. I haven't been able to stand her for years. She might have turned

ebay into a financial success, but she did it by rolling over the little guys trying to make a few extra bucks. Even more importantly, she killed the spirit of the site. If the worst case scenario happens and she becomes the governor, she'll turn California around by slashing services to people who need it the most.

[hypocrisyandlies]

23. It seems like that is what all of the repub candidates are doing right now.

Trying to point out how their opponents aren't conservative enough. Poizner has been attacking her for siding with liberals on certain issues, too. Every time I see one of those, I ask myself why anyone would want to elect ANOTHER republican after Arnold.

[inna]

27. I don't get it, it's almost as if they are trying to create their alternate reality.

Creating and re-enforcing this "conservative = good; government/taxes/spending/unions/pensions/social services = bad" meme.

I mean, does that kind of crap really register with many people in California?? Certainly not with any of the people I know. :shrug:

When I hear her ad bashing some Democrat for being "liberal on taxes, liberal on spending", and for opposing Bush's tax cuts for the rich, my immediate reaction is, "Awesome! That's EXACTLY what we need, can I vote for this guy NOW, please?"


If this corporate monster replaces Boxer, we're (even more) screwed.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

25. I might like her a little, if she's related to ...

But as someone shopping or bidding for public office? No, thanks.

:hi: