Meg Whitman: I Didn't Vote Because I Was Focused On My Family

[Liberal_in_LA]

From 2009:

Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of California in 2010, has an interesting explanation for the fact that she's hardly ever voted, and didn't even register until seven years ago, when she was 46: She was too dedicated to her family to vote.

"I was focused on raising a family, on my husband's career, and we moved many, many times," she told reporters. "It is no excuse. My voting record, my registration record, is unacceptable."

As the Sacramento Bee reported, no record exists of Whitman registering to vote until she was 46, and had already had a very active career in business.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/meg-whitman-i-didnt-vote-because-i-was-focused-on-my-family.php

[tammywammy]

1. What a BS excuse

I take care of my house, work full time, go to school full time, and yet...I still always manage to squeeze in the few minutes to vote.

[stopbush]

29. Yep. I always take my kids with me to the polls.

It allows them to participate in the voting process. When they were younger, we all went together to vote, eliminating the need to tag-team parent while the other parent voted.

[tammywammy]

44. When I was little I remember going with my mom

I don't have kids, but it's not like I'm not busy too. You fucking make time to vote. Thankfully in Texas you get 2 weeks (!) of early voting, at ANY location in your county, so there's always time. Oh and there's absentee voting too, Meg missed out on that memo too.

[felinetta]

45. Funny, she didn't vote and yet she wants votes from people who do. BS!

[treestar]

2. So she couldn't do the most basic of civic duties because she had a family?

And now she wants to be one of our leaders?

And she had a housekeeper?

[Botany]

3. Meg, thanx for playing and be sure to pick up your lovely parting gifts

[lame54]

5. make that an OP

[Botany]

12. I just did and if it sinks to the bottom of the DU pool I will be crushed

:rofl:

[Kadie]

6. LOL!

:rofl:

[golddigger]

8. LOL

:spray:

[livetohike]

10. ROFL

:rofl: good one :thumbsup:

[Morning Dew]

4. Right.

The task of voting is so difficult that, really, the only ones who should vote are singles who can devote the necessary man hours to it.

[TheWraith]

7. That 15 minutes every two years is a real time waster.

I'd call her an idiot, but that insults all the dumb people who have enough sense not to think they should run California.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

9. remember Bill Frist never voted in his entire life until he voted for himself & never even registere...

to vote until he ran for the senate

[Dappleganger]

11. Pure Bullshit!

If you care about this country you participate in its democracy. Even if you don't care about any politics except local, you'll participate. This just proves that Whitman only cares about HERSELF.

[Enrique]

13. family values: don't vote

if you vote, you are neglecting your family!

[eleny]

14. That's right, Meg - it *is no excuse

[jaxx]

15. Poor Meg never learned to multi-task.

Most women are very good at it...but then Meg is Meg. Not for prime time.

[WhiteTara]

16. wow. A cheat who doesn't even bother

to vote wants to be the GOVERNOR of one of the most (used to be) prosperous states in the union.

[JohnnyLib2]

17. Hell, she'll pick up some support with that one.

Of course, it won't help if the supporters are non-voters.................:eyes: :crazy:

[ruggerson]

18. Focus on the Family

Hmmm... that sounds vaguely familiar.

[tanyev]

19. One task you can't hire an illegal immigrant to take care of for you.

[WinkyDink]

20. Try another one, Meg, one starting with the letter "e".

[L0oniX]

21. Oh the wonderful family life of the billionaires. Good thing us serfs can get out an vote ain't.

What? You can't afford a better documented maid? You can't afford a mover? Ah the devoted wife ...staying home an baking cookies and helping the hubby.

HEY FUCK YOU!

[Ikonoklast]

22. The mind boggles at Republican hypocrisy.

These people are all batshit insane.

[ScreamingMeemie]

23. Hmmm... I voted with my two year old son wrapped around my leg...

and then I went home and laundered my husband's shirts and made his dinner. He somehow managed to squeeze in voting in between leaving a full time job and coming home to his family...

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. Well, Meg, I focus on my family too. That's why I make sure that I vote.

[Tikki]

26. + 100

Tikki

[Bluenorthwest]

25. When you are calling your own record unacceptable

that in itself is an indication of a campaign out of control. One of the most important values I learned from my parents was the idea that voting is a duty never to be missed. To hear her use her family as an excuse is disgusting, she should be apologizing for setting such a bad example for her children, for passing on to them a sense of apathy. She then uses her bad parenting as an excuse for her lack of good citizenship.
It seems to me that with all that undocumented household help, she might have been able to spare 5 mintues to fill out the absentee her assistant handed to her and would have mailed for her. Some working mothers manage to vote with no staff at all to assist. Maybe Meg just has trouble with all sorts of forms from the government? This seems to be a pattern. No matter how many people are there to help her, she fails to do what is required, then she blames her kids and staff for her own failure.
She's really something. I thought Carly would be the most entertaining of the two losing Republican women in CA, but Meg is really showing us what she's got!

[Lugnut]

27. Baloney!

I worked full-time while we were raising our family and I never missed a vote. My kids even came into the voting booth with me. Meg is a BS artist.

[stopbush]

28. Looks like Meg bought herself a lot of shovels on e-bay.

That might explain her urge to keep digging her sinkhole...

[blondeatlast]

30. Focus on Your Own Families, Values Voters. Follow Meg's lead.

It's the bestest ever thing you could do for your country--stay home and play Twister.

[left coaster]

31. Hey Meg! I am always focused on my family, too..

..which is exactly why I've always voted! I care about what kind of country my children and I live in, AND I want to show my children a good example of what an informed and responsible citizen should be..

The truth is that people in Meg's income bracket don't give a shit about anyone or anything but their own.. they live in an insular, very well padded bubble.

[blondeatlast]

32. I can't think of a better way for Whitman's base to help their families and country

than by staying home and playint Skip-Bo on Election Day, can you?

[Nevernose]

33. My teenage daughter calls it "election season"

It's one year on, one year off. She started knocking on doors and attending primaries/caucuses when she was three months old and we campaigned for Clinton.

When she ran for class president in the fifth grade, she and her friends worked a phone bank and she sought -- and received -- an endorsement from former President Carter.

So fuck you, Meg Whitman. Some of us think "working hard to make America a better place" IS a family value.

[begin_within]

34. We understand, Meg. Just look at what model citizens your sons turned out to be!

[ismnotwasm]

35. Moving many many times?

Sounds a bit unstable Meg. You. Idiot.

[KittyWampus]

36. a lot of women do that as SINGLE PARENTS and still manage to vote. And serve on juries.

[kdmorris]

37. LOL that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard

We had three kids running around and always took them with us to vote. It was like a family holiday! "YAY... the kids are home, let's go vote!!"

[jgraz]

38. Hey, cut her some slack. Managing a bunch of undocumented workers is a real time-sink.

Not to mention assaulting your documented employees. Maybe she had to punch out a small asian woman on election day...

[rucky]

39. I guess she can't multi-task.

some CEO.

[Scurrilous]

40. LOL

:thumbsup:

[LWolf]

41. Somehow, I've always found a way to vote without neglecting my family.

I've NEVER used my family as an excuse for my own poor choices or irresponsibility.

[femmedem]

42. I think this explanation is perfectly valid

and I hope many like-minded Republicans feel the same way.;)

[Mimosa]

43. That B.S. alone should disqualify her from public office!

People like her make me SICK! I couldn't wait to cast my first vote at the age of 18!

[tavalon]

46. Hopefully, Meg, you'll soon have even more time to spend with your family

[NotThisTime]

47. WTH???? Seriously? She's an actual contender for any office anywhere?