California: GOP governor hopefuls linked to Democrats

Orange County Register (CA) ^ | April 23, 2010 | By MARTIN WISCKOL

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Whitman gave $8,000 to Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer's reelection effort in 2003, a total that includes a contribution to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Along with 16 other tech leaders, she signed a letter that said, "Barbara Boxer is a courageous leader and friend of California's technology industry."

Poizner wrote checks for a total of at least $21,000 forAl Gore's campaign, Gore's recount expenses, and the Democratic National Committee in 2000.

Here are the excuses each candidate offers for being generous with the wrong people, starting with Whitman – who was CEO of eBay when she made the donation.

"Meg backed Sen. Boxer because of her efforts with Republican Sen. George Allen to fight taxes on the Internet," said Whitman spokesperson Sarah Pompei told me Thursday.

Whitman had earlier said, "I don't believe in virtually anything else that Barbara Boxer does."

On to Poizner, who told me last year it was his wife who supported Gore and other Democrats who've gotten checks from him.

"In 2000, she wanted to go see some of these Democrat politicians coming through the Silicon Valley," he said. "She asked me to go with her. We have a joint checking account. So we went. I've been explaining that now for nine years, ever since. I never endorsed Al Gore, I didn't vote for Al Gore. I voted for President Bush in 2000. I voted for President Bush in 2004."

[Hoodat]

GOP governor hopefuls linked to Democrats

Just like the current governor.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

WOW!

Never saw that commin’........

[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..."

[P-Marlowe]

Because of all the campaign finance reform, the only viable candidates in big states are the ones who can bankroll their own campaigns. As a result all of our leaders are billionaires pretending to be common folk. Whitman and Fiorina are literally buying their offices. I won’t vote for either of them. Not in the primaries and not in the general.

[downtownconservative]

Sometimes it all comes down to voting for the lesser of two evils, a situation surely to be avoided if humanly possible, but nonetheless an persistent prospect these days.

[xzins]

We need a new way of electing leaders for this republic.

The current system is broken due to expense.

In the same way as a grass roots whispering campaign can accomplish spreading a message just as well as big money spent on an ad campaign, so there’s just got to be a way for leaders to come from the grassroots up rather from the top down.

[cartoonistx]

"Not in the primaries and not in the general."

Do you hold your vote to be so sacred that you won't cast it for imperfect candidates yet so meaningless that your not casting it won't effect the outcome?!

If, because of just this kind of attitude, California re-re-elects Gov. Moonbeam and, once again, can't un-elect the dumbest senator we've ever sent, I will move to Outer Mongolia!

[kabar]

I would move. CA is finished.

[definitelynotaliberal]

ping

[Loud Mime]

Ouch.

Anyway, I believe that Boxer will lose this time.

[definitelynotaliberal]

Oh, you know she will. The President has campaigned for her. It’s all over. Why the dickens isn’t he campaigning for Arlen Specter?!

[ecomcon]

I have spent My entire 50 years in Ca.

I’m moving. CA is finished.

The end came in 1995 when prop 187 (approved by voters 59% to 41%) was overruled by the courts.

[Republic Rocker]

Its crazy to think Whitman would have anything in common with a Boxer or a Pelosi. Whitman believes in all the workings of law, free markets and self responsibility.

California needs the mind of a Whitman. I had always hoped a McClintock would be that person but he was not electable for this position in the popularity state. This year I will have to look past the social political issues for my state because FISCAL BUSINESS minds are needed so much more.

[darkangel82]

Whitman is not an “imperfect candidate” she is a democrat.

[Vaduz]

California is dead it’s in the worm food stage now.

[Mike Darancette]

Well, we have to vote for one of them or risk Governor Moonbeam Part Deux. At least Whitman didn’t blame someone else.

[Mike Darancette]

Not in the primaries and not in the general.

Let me put you down for 1 vote each for Babs and Moonbeam.

[P-Marlowe]

FWIW, I will not cast a vote for any candidate who is not pro-life.

[xzins]

who is not pro-life

It seems strange to me, an Ohioan, watching Californians who've been burned badly by the "lesser of two evils" argument time and again, with Arnold being a huge centerpiece, still spouting that mindless drivel.

As in the rest of the country, but especially in Calif, it seems that the voters really do need an alternative.