CEOs Campaign For Office Across The Country

Newsweek:

To hear Jon Corzine tell it, Meg Whitman is either deceiving us or deceiving herself. Like Whitman, the former eBay CEO who's vying for California's Republican gubernatorial nomination, Corzine is one of the few people in America who has tried to make the leap from running a business (in his case, Goldman Sachs) to running a government (the state of New Jersey).

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Comments

[melton244]

02:11 AM on 02/27/2010

Hello CEO's: We don't want you in public office......you will be defeated! These 3 will not succeed.

[World Citizen]

05:37 AM on 02/27/2010

I sure hope so. Scary thought to have any one of these 3 in government.

Who are the other candidates? They are not getting the same air time...

[charon]

09:35 PM on 02/17/2010

Another attack on the working class by the wealthy, who've been conducting open class warfare against the workers and underemployed would-be workers ever since Reagan got into office.

[mcmutter]

07:36 AM on 02/17/2010

Carly make yourself useful ...... Go ruin another company if you can find one that will have you .......

[afgail]

02:41 AM on 02/17/2010

These CEO's have looted their own corporations, sqandered their investors money on unearned bonuses and shipped American jobs overseas. Not great credentials for running government. Neither is being a legacy Governor.

[Gaylord P Farqua]

10:04 PM on 02/16/2010

These folks have not spent enough time with the people they will be serving with and/or dependent upon to "make things happen." Now if most of the upper tiers of management of the Fortune 500 would pack it in and run for office the Nation could benefit from a corporate leadership vacuum that might cause the promotion of some lower management folks who don't need a minimum of 10 to 100 million a year to scrape by and might just be able to show a profit for their share holders without screwing consumers. Meanwhile the new politicos could be getting comfortable learning about grid lock and job 1, getting reelected.

[charon]

10:00 PM on 02/16/2010

CEOs are clearly the traditional Big Money Republicans--and Dems should define them as representing the interests of the wealthy against the working class, and attack them hard as being opposed to the interests of the working people. Regardless of what they say, their tongues are forked, and the truth is they will always represent those they represented as CEOs--the wealthy.

[shella2177]

07:52 PM on 02/16/2010

Please. Please. This is great. Let/Get us get some people in office w./ Private sector experience and success...!!!!what we have right now, with the admin w/ virtually zilch in private sector experience is double digit unemployment w/ no end in sight.

[tiredofthesameoldstuff]

11:44 PM on 02/16/2010

You are apparently unaware that it was the CEO president who enabled those conditions you are crying about.

Also the CEOs you are praising are known for running their companies into the ground. Take for example Bush Jr couldn't find oil in Texas. Without the Saudis supporting his oil company it would have gone bankrupt his other business ventures all failed.

[Americanium]

06:38 PM on 02/16/2010

Anyone who thinks they can run a government like a business need to be placed before a cart and whipped like a horse.

[AudiGuy]

07:27 PM on 02/16/2010

Especially those who cost their stockholders millions. Wait a minute, Bush bankrupted four companies before becoming President and it wasn't enough to stop Americans from voting for him. Ahhhhh

[shella2177]

07:54 PM on 02/16/2010

those that run it like an Acorn Community Project are not doing well, I put my hands in those that know how to create hobs, not those that know how to spend tax dollars!

[Americanium]

02:19 AM on 02/17/2010

You mean those CEOs who have laid off over 5 million workers since 2007 and bankrupt the financial system?

I just love it when you parrot AM Radio talking points.. How about some critical thinking on your part?

[sheaintsayin]

06:04 PM on 02/16/2010

Please, help us! We have erred in the past with our state-wide elected officials, but no one deserves to be represented by this hollowed-out, heartless human form, not even us pathetic denizens of the once-great state of California. Please, take your rage and help us; save us from fiorina and that other one who is paying her way to the governor's house with ads during the Olympics. So, when you are called upon to make calls, write letters, send post cards, or pray, please do so, and I'll gladly return the favor.

[dcjdjay]

05:59 PM on 02/16/2010

Fiorina was despised by workers at Lucent and reviled by those at HP. Not a good start.

Whitman can barely control her own two rich, rude and racist sons. Their antics will become front-page fodder should she win the GOP nomination. Incidentally, her gilded loutish brats are infamous for using the N-word, and I bet Whitman has her PR-staff working overtime in damage control.

Romney may have been a decent CEO, but he's stepped too far into the deep, dark, uber-Con, wingnut world to be attractive as a candidate to a majority of Americans. Liberals despise him for his pandering to conservative cavemen, and conservatives despise him for his flip-flopping on how much he truly hates gays. To win a GOP primary today, you have to be all about God, guns and gays - basically using guns to kill gays in the name of God. Or something like that.

[harry greb]

05:23 PM on 02/16/2010

Carly Fiorina? Unbelievable! Her claim to fame, her pass to the top job at HP was being the CFO at Lucent! Which turned out to be a huge accounting fraud! Then at HP she abuses the H1-B visa system, offshores thousands of middle class jobs to the nearest poverty stricken, drainage challenged fly-blown workers' paradise and fires the American incumbants (after they train their replacements). Despite this tremendous cost-saving coup (barf sound-effects), she STILL managers to run HP directly into the hopper. Her next act is a public, internecine feud with her board of directors where she cleverly back-stabs the founder's son. The grand finale is of course, the public huliliation of being driven from the company while absconding with an obscene golden parachute funded by her low level subordinates' retirement money. On second thought, maybe the Senate is the place for a corrupt, dismal failure like Fiorina.

[Carl Caroli]

05:10 PM on 02/16/2010

While I respect CEOs ability to some degree, I'm more concerned that a) the trend will continue to foster the too close relationship between business and government and b) it makes it incredibly difficult for the average person, who might be more sensitive to the needs of the lower and middle class, to compete with the folks both financially and theoretically. Corporations would obviously feel more comfortable with and financially support a former CEO than, say, a Ralph Nader.

[City of Evil]

10:10 AM on 03/02/2010

The other problem is that some of these CEOs, like Fiorina, have been utter failures at their jobs.

[funkyirishdem]

04:58 PM on 02/16/2010

Republican strategy the moment The President beat Hillary..
Plan A
1 - step up attacks about association of him having ter.ror.rists pals
2 - step up attacks of the (IST'S) ..marx ..social and so on
3 - use the term ''radical'' in every sentence EVERY minute of EVERY hour of EVERY day
4 - slash and burn the economy as much possible
5 - LIE (entailing all of the above)

Republican strategy the moment The President took office
Plan B
1- step up attacks that he was soft on ter.ror.rists
2- Step up attacks that the Government is taking over everything
3 - Complain that too much money is being spent ignoring the recent history or reasons why
4- hold up ALL procedures and votes and installation of department heads (PARALYZING GOVT.)
5 - LIE (for all of the above )

Republican strategy now and beyond
Plan C
1- say NO
2- welcome Joe Lieberman
3 - promise blue dog democrats ANYTHING to break with the President and split the party for a victory in Novemeber - take power -and claim to solve everything
4 BE Hypocrytical claiming credit for all the President's policies having railed against them previously.

Continuing the cycle of h8 and a two tier society with the backing of a right leaning SCOTUS...

GET OUT AND VOTE PROGRESSIVE IN NOVEMEBER PEOPLE ...WARNING ...THIS IS OUR ONE CHANCE!”

[lvdragonlady]

04:28 PM on 02/16/2010

If the American people are so stupid that they would continue to elect people who's top priority is greed, they we deserve what we get.

[RU cerious]

03:32 PM on 02/16/2010

Fiorina failed miserably at Lucent, in fact it could be said she damaged the company so badly that it was sold in distress to Alcatel, Her tenure at HP was market by another failure to lead, and HP performed terribly during her administration.

This qualifies her to be the Chief Executive of the 7th largest economy in the world? Either she's joking or she's a joke. Based on previous performance, or lack their-of she's both.

Do all Republicans suffer from lack of short term memory? Certainly they think the rest of the population must.

[FoonTheElder]

03:42 PM on 02/16/2010

Romney made his money by selling out American jobs for big dollars and Meg Whitman turned Ebay and PayPal into a site that regularly overcharges and pisses off the sellers who make them their money, resulting in an exodus to alternatives like Amazon.

[Berkeleylefty]

03:58 PM on 02/16/2010

Republicans do not suffer from a lack of short term memory... they expect, and count on, their base to do that...