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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The chairman of the Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele pledges big bucks to support Carly Fiorina's senate campaign against Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer. Steele was in San Francisco Thursday morning, talking about California politics and the money it will take to win in November. Show me the money, but of course he wouldn't -- to ABC7 anyway. The question is will he show Fiorina the money? The two are scheduled to sit down together on Friday. Steele told reporters financial help for GOP candidates is coming. "We're going to be in play here, big time...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Several Republican heavyweights will join gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman in California for a series of campaign fundraisers. Her political mentor and previous boss, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, will join Whitman at events this week in Irvine, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Redwood City. She also will be joined at some of the events by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. John McCain.

Meg Whitman Supports The $700 Billion Bank Bailout (TARP) Meg Whitman markets herself as an alleged proponent of free market capitalism. But her actual record couldn’t be further from the image she has peddled to California. In fact, Whitman championed the exact opposite by supporting the $700 billion bank bailout, infamously known as TARP. When asked about the colossal governmental intervention and intrusion into the economy, Whitman repeatedly and ardently asserted her support for the massive redistribution of wealth from responsible taxpayers to reckless banks, calling it the “right thing to do.” Whitman Supports The $700 Billion Bank Bailout (TARP),...

Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman says in her new book that, while she has a deep admiration for John McCain, she was frequently troubled by his presidential campaign’s strategic decisions and internal disorganization. Whitman, a national co-chair for the Republican senator’s campaign and top surrogate for him writes in her autobiography “The Power of Many” that her experience with his campaign was “not without frustration.” (snip) “When it came time to choose a running mate, for example, I believed that the times called for the skills of Mitt Romney, because he would have complemented John’s inspirational leadership with the practical...

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...

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