[SmokingJoe]

“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? “

Michael Bloomberg, circa 2001, says “Hello”.
The guy had been a Democrat all his life, changes to “become a Republican” just before the primaries (because he had zero chance of getting the Democratic Party nomination), had never run for public office in his life, and yet not only did he grab the Republican nomination, he used his vast wealth to simply CRUSH his Democratic Party opponent, Mark Green, who was by far the favorite to win, even with just 2 months to go to the elections.

[JerseyHighlander]

Bloomberg’s IT company created dozens of billionaires and several thousand millionaires living in NYC all to different degrees indebted to Bloomberg’s revolutionary terminal trading and data services.

I don’t think EBay will bring about the same level of gravitas in the CA community for Whitman.