Whitman lays out her agenda of reform

SFGate.com ^ | 3/13/10 | Carla Marinucci and Joe Garofoli

[NormsRevenge]

Responding to criticism that she has sidestepped media, Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman held an unprecedented, hourlong conversation with news reporters Friday, laying out her positions on state pension reform, prisons and immigration while taking shots at Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican rival Steve Poizner.

The billionaire former eBay CEO had her most in-depth exchange with political reporters since she entered the race last year, after arriving to cheers at the state GOP convention at the Santa Clara Hyatt. She later spoke to several hundred delegates after being introduced by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Whitman proposed major reforms to the state pension system, including raising the retirement age. She said she supports a guest worker program but does not support giving the children of illegal immigrants tuition breaks to attend public universities. And she suggested sending California prisoners to other states to relieve overcrowding.

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In response to questions about her investments and income, Whitman - whose net worth has been estimated at $1.4 billion - said she is prepared to release 25 years of her tax information. But she said, "I want to do it on my own time. ... We should challenge (gubernatorial candidate) Jerry Brown. When he releases his taxes, I will."

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When asked about details of her income and her investments in offshore hedge funds that were reported this week in her economic interest statement, Whitman said she has paid California state taxes every year since she moved to the state in 1998.

She defended her charitable foundation's investments in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda, calling them part of a "broad portfolio of investments" that she insisted is similar to "big foundations and big universities."

[NormsRevenge]

He survived a stint as Mayor of Oakland, no easy feat considering..

[NormsRevenge]

Moonbeam Brown, that is..

[Diogenesis]

Meg Whitman's campaign guru donated max to Obama -- while she advised McCain
"Even as former eBay CEO Meg Whitman acted as a high-profile backer and adviser to 2008
GOP presidential candidate John McCain, her top aide Henry Gomez -- now an eMeg
gubernatorial campaign majordomo -- donated the maximum to Democrat Barack Obama,
federal records show. Gomez, a trusted top insider in Republican Whitman's 2010 gubernatorial
campaign, donated the maximum $2,300 allowed to the general election campaign of Obama
in the days before -- and the weeks following -- the former eBay CEO's high profile televised
address to the GOP National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he accompanied Whitman around the..."

[hoosierham]

Odd how actually being truly successful is held out as a reason not to have someone in public office.

One might wonder if the nation wouldn't be bettered served by winners than socialist losers.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Anyone who mentions a “guest worker program” supports Illegal Alien Amnesty......they wont admit it....but Guest Worker Program is always code for Amnesty....

A state with 12% unemployment does not need Guest Worker Amnesty

[Tempest]

Poizner Blames Wife For Massive Contributions to Al Gore & DNC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9uvxBB0h1w

[NormsRevenge]

Debra Saunders piece

Meg Whitman can manage but can she govern?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2468978/posts

[Diogenesis]

FACTOID OF THE DAY:

How good a governor was Mitt RomneyCARE? Not too good.

Romney brought down Massachusetts to be the 48th lowest state in employment.
====> 48th lowest. Got that?
And Mitt RomneyCARE alone refused to endorse Pres. Bush’s tax cut proposal.

"(Under the lash of Mitt RomneyCARE) as U.S. real output grew
13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]

“Just buy my book
and ignore what we have done.
Now go back to you (sic) bananas.”

[dalereed]

“One might wonder if the nation wouldn’t be bettered served by winners than socialist losers.”

Meg is a socialist loser!!!!

I’ll vote for Brown before i’ll vote for that bitch!

[ansel12]

video-Meg Whitman: Romney handpicked me and "I'm A Huge Fan Of Van Jones"

[Lancey Howard]

How can this scumbag get away with running as a Republican?

[hoosierham]

Whoa.

That chart of donations was revealing;so Meg is not a republican.a

California voters get such lousy choices....

[Lancey Howard]

Thanks for that link. The weasel even uses the tried and true “that’s old news” strategy the rats perfected long ago.

Whitman, Poizner... is there a legitimate Republican candidate in California?

[freekitty]

LOSER......

[parisa]

Meg Whitman can manage but can she govern?

Maybe that question should have been put to the bummer when he defended his campaign "management" skills as qualification to take over power of this country, BUT NO ONE DID.

[GOP Poet]

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[PaleoBob]

Brown is honest about his party affiliation. Whitman isn’t.

[Amerigomag]

Anyone who mentions a “guest worker program” supports Illegal Alien Amnesty......they wont admit it....but Guest Worker Program is always code for Amnesty....

Horsecrap! Apples and Oranges.

The US could use a well regulated guest worker program. The program must start from scratch:

1) Applicants back to their native country, including their minor anchor babies.
2) Only males, age 18 through 40, accepted into work program.
3) A maximum of 5, 6 month rotations then a 2 year break.
4) US employers covers all in-country costs, including emergency medical.
5) Untaxed, federal minimum wages deposited directly into native banks.