Pierre Omidyar, eBay Founder, 'Can't Quite' Support Whitman For Governor

blogs.sacbee.com:

EBay founder Pierre Omidyar told Bloomberg TV's "InBusiness with Margaret Brennan" today that he would "find it very difficult" to vote for former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, the Republican nominee for governor, according to a transcript of the interview scheduled to air Wednesday.

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Comments

[zelduh]

01:53 PM on 09/24/2010

Hey, MOD-E-RATORS:

It's OK to have discourse with people who disagree with you. (Really; it is!)

You should only rapture messages that are objectively offensive, accuse others of a crime of moral turpitude, etc.; NOT because you (or someone else) merely disagree with the point made. You are abusing your privileges if you do this.

So, please THINK before you press the "De lete" button, especially if there are lots of well-reasoned replies to the post (because the brilliant replies disappear as well.)

(And, posters, please be reasonable when fla gging someone because mawds take your flags into consideration, but we're not supposed to rapture a post just because one or two of you disagree.)

[enlightenedgirl]

03:18 PM on 09/23/2010

He says he can't support her or vote for her but she turns it into a good thing?  Come on Meg, we are listening and we aren't that stupid.

[Hardyman1966]

08:39 PM on 09/22/2010

She's stupidly consented to 4 debates and now an appearance with Jerry and Arnold.  Clearly, not that bright of a woman, as this will finish her off.  She should go the way of the Baggers and refuse all appearances.  Blind, unscreened questioning is not something she will handle well at all.  I'm sure it also is very troubling to her that after months of cramming her sh*t down our throats on a daily basis, she's still neck-and-neck with someone who only really started running a week ago.

I only need Jerry to win by ONE .

[zelduh]

01:31 PM on 09/24/2010

(I'd rather that Brown won by ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND!)

[sjpersonal]

06:57 PM on 09/22/2010

I'm still not sure what Ms. Whitmans' postion on illegal immigration is. She has changed her mind several times. Mr. Pierre Omidyar states that she has alligned herself with Pete Wilson in regards to immigration. Below is an excerpt from an article about former Gov. Pete Wilson's position on illegal immigration.

Governor Pete Wilson on Illegal Immigration

California absorbs more illegal immigrants than any other state
in the union. The costs of providing health care, welfare, and education
services to illegal immigrants and their families, which the federal
government requires California to provide, threatens to overwhelm the
state. In fact, when citizen children are included (i.e., children born
in the United States to illegal immgirants), illegal immigration costs
the state at least $3.6 billion annually to provide health, welfare, and
education benefits and to cover the cost of incarcerating illegal aliens.
After the federal government's continued failure to reimburse the
state for the costs of illegal immigration, Governor Wilson issued an
open letter to President Clinton from the people of California calling
for fundamental reform of our nation's immigration laws. The letter
contained three major proposals: a constitutional amendment denying
citizenship to children of illegal immigrants; a request that the federal
government regain control of the nation's borders; and relief from the
federal mandates that reward illegal immigrants with health, education,
and other benefits.

link:http://www.calvoter.org/archive/94general/cand/governor/wils/wilsplat3.html

[cordyc]

04:19 PM on 09/22/2010

Great article that outlines Meg's "business" career.

http://www.baycitizen.org/meg-whitman/story/ebays-lost-years/

[zelduh]

01:34 PM on 09/24/2010

Thank you for that link!

Fanned.

Faved.

[planetmondo]

02:03 PM on 09/22/2010

Put this on the front page !!! the whole argument for Whitman is her tenure @ E-Bay Even ( she who shall remain shameless) doesn't want any talk of her ties to Goldman-Sachs and the trouble she caused there.She runs constant ads of Bill Clinton that were proven to be untrue President Clinton endorses supports and will campaign for Governor Jerry Brown now we find out even E-Bays own founder wont support Meg. Put this story on the front page or I call B.S.

[LeeCalif]

11:00 PM on 09/21/2010

Always have problems with the antiquated Sac Bee uploading.

[RyanCSmith]

09:33 PM on 09/21/2010

Not the best headline, unfortunately what he said in the article undercuts his issues with Meg. This sounds like serious hedging of bets more than anything else.

[cordyc]

04:10 PM on 09/22/2010

Meg is still on the Board of Directors and the last report from 2008 has her holdings at almost 18 Million shares worth today about 1/2 Billion Dollars.

He obviously doesn't want to tick her off too badly.

Bet he didn't like it at all when her "management skill" tanked the stock price by 50% during her last 3 years before she was shown the door.

[RyanCSmith]

08:29 PM on 09/22/2010

I agree but his statement doesn't match up with the headline very well. A more accurate rendering would be something about his issues with her opinion on Prop 8. It would not surprise me if he's parsing his words because of her stock holdings but as is the headline doesn't match his lawyer-approved statement.

Which is a real shame, if it did that would be a shot between the eyes for her campaign.

[cordyc]

11:26 PM on 09/22/2010

Need to correct because Meg resigned her Board seat in 2009. But I think she still has a lot of stock so Pierre is going to be charitable to her. Once she loses she'll probably want her seat back.

Now I wonder what Jeff Skoll, who wrote the ebay Business Plan, is going to have to say?

[latoussaint]

09:15 PM on 09/21/2010

Why isn't this front page news? Is Meg Paying to have this at the back of the burner?

[Joann Vallo]

10:34 AM on 09/22/2010

Her ads are running all over the place. I thought this was a progressive site. I went to the food thread yesterday to get away from them, and there she was.

[Joann Vallo]

10:36 AM on 09/22/2010

In fact, look at the bottom of this page at the meg whitman ad from google.

[planetmondo]

02:08 PM on 09/22/2010

I an soooo sick of her and her manufactured support by paid and low information voters.
And I am so sick of her money fueled lies ,ads and general fakiness

[AGarcia]

08:25 PM on 09/21/2010

eBay: still a theif's best friend. Sell your stuff!

[TheAntiOkie]

10:02 AM on 09/23/2010

It is but because of the policies instigated & being continued by the current head, it's now the buyers who are perpetrating wholesale theft against the sellers.

And, of course, eBay and PayPal are doing the same to the sellers on eBay.  PayPal is doing it to sellers all over the world  in all venues as well with their "we'll hold you money for 6 months or maybe forever if we want to" policies and refusal to even discuss with you why other than to intimate that they think you might be funding terrorism because you made too much money to suit them one day.

[zombywulf]

07:35 PM on 09/21/2010

I wonder what mess her highness left behind at Ebay, that her ex boss won't support her

[cordyc]

04:11 PM on 09/22/2010

Yahoo Finance has her on the Board of Directors still because she has so much stock.

[Sean777]

07:34 PM on 09/21/2010

Meg Whitman only wants to convert California into a monarchy… Queen Meg is the lobbyist candidate there is!!!! Besides her connection to Goldman Sachs, Meg Whitman’s Agenda to govern California shares the same philosophy of incarcerated Enron CEO Jeffrey Keith, which is: “survival of the finest (rich pricks)”, she only wants top predators like her to succeed and the rest of Californians to perish while they feed on us. If Queen Meg is elected governor she will plot throughout de-regularization to oppress Californians the same way Whitman’s co-alma-matter Jeffrey Keith plotted to keep the price of electricity high during the California’s energy crisis using the same polices of former president George W. Bush. Why people forgot that we are suffering from an economic recession that started when Americans lost their expenditure capacity when the Bush administration allowed gas prices to rise up to $5 per gallon in less than 6 months that’s the risk that our financial system couldn’t take and put our capitalist engine to stall in an instance because nobody could prevent that and the reasons why we suffered such gas price increases while Bush and Dick Cheney got billions out of their petroleum empires are unknown until this day. Now how Californians can trust a candidate endorsed by Dick Cheney, ties with Goldman Sachs and Enron mind-set for Governor.

[MexiChick67]

12:12 PM on 09/22/2010

So all of the money that she is pumping into the election is actually 'seed money' for future dealings that will be quite the lucrative investment...if she wins.

[zelduh]

02:02 PM on 09/24/2010

There are lots of public lands and parks. Perhaps she wants to privatize them??

[whitegayrepublican]

06:46 PM on 09/21/2010

Now that should be quite telling of the Gubernatorial candidate.