Whitman's $13 million check brings her personal campaign contribution to $104 million

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Please, please, please...let her lose every single penny. This woman cannot buy her way into office...California has enough problems right now.

CA Gov Gold Rush:Whitman Surpasses $100 Million in Personal Contributions

Jake Gibson | August 14, 2010

http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/08/14/ca-gov-gold-rushwhitman-surpasses-100-million-personal-contributions

Republican California gubernatorial candidate and billionaire Meg Whitman has now spent more than $100 million of her own money in an effort to become the Golden State's next governor.

The former CEO of eBay has written her campaign another massive check, this time to the tune of $13 million. The donation was filed Friday with the California secretary of state's office and brings Whitman's personal contribution to $104 million.

The lion's share of that money has gone to running television ads in the expensive California media market.

The investment has paid off, as Whitman now finds herself in a neck and neck race with her democratic opponent, the current attorney general and former Governor Jerry Brown.

The Brown campaign on the other hand has spent less than a million dollars to date and accuses Whitman of trying to buy the election. "Meg Whitman continues to pour unprecedented millions into a campaign of unprecedented dishonesty," said Brown spokesman Sterling Clifford. "Her ads have been proven false, her trickle-down tax breaks for the super rich are a proven failure, and the late night disclosure is all about keeping voters in the dark."

Brown's camp has $23 million in the bank and has yet to start airing television ads, preferring to hold onto the money for the all-important final push this fall.

However, Brown has been benefitted by television ads courtesy of independent expenditures from unions, the very reason Whitman's camp says she needs to keep writing checks.

"Meg is investing the necessary resources to fight the already $13 million in attacks Jerry Brown Inc. has launched to defend the status quo in Sacramento," said Whitman spokesperson Sarah Pompei. "She will continue discussing her plans to create jobs with Californians across the state."

[spanone]

1. and what does the job pay? $206,500

http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=207914

[KamaAina]

4. Plus benefits

i.e. the power to steer brazillions of $$$ in state contracts to her cronies (think Ahh-nuld and Enron). :eyes:

[Hannah Bell]

2. why rich people need to be taxed more: she could have paid off the deficit of multiple counties in

CA for that.


just give us the money, meggie.

no one wants *you*.

[SocialistLez]

13. Isn't that the truth? That money could have been spent on more worthwile things. NT

[hobbit709]

3. What's that adage about a fool and money?

[Aramchek]

5. That sure is alot of money to throw right in the trash. That should tell people much about her.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. The financial means to bankroll her lust for power

As a Californian, I hope that the voters in this state are too smart to take the bait. I'd really like to see that fake smile plastered across her face as the news cameras roll and she gives her concession speech.

[Aramchek]

7. she not going to buy this one.

but it's nice to know she won't have that money for her next attempted electoral purchase.

[napi21]

8. Well, I guess all that $$ is keeping the TV stations flush

with cash! I sure hope the people of Calif. aren't so stupid as to elect that B.

[Cleita]

10. I hope not. But do remember that enough of them

voted for Arnold and Proposition 8. I'm not uncrossing my fingers until after the election.

[Greyhound]

9. It is impossible to underestimate the intelligence of the American public. n/t

K&R

[tinrobot]

11. $100+ million for one job, when millions of Californians are unemployed.

Simply ridiculous...

[diane in sf]

12. Spend it all and lose Meg!