Look, she's never been a beloved candidate. Even Meg Whitman's supporters have never really been able to get excited about her. For most of them she may simply be the only ideological game in town. The rest are likely more blinded by the endless array of ads bought with her personal fortune than they are dazzled with her promise as a leader. What's truly astonishing is that this woman is literally trying to purchase an election and the best she can get is layaway. Up against Jerry Brown, a septuagenarian fixture in California politics, she casts herself as the fresh face in this race and she's not only significantly behind him in the polls, but she actually comes across as the stodgy, self-entitled insider to his scrappy, fighter-for-the-people.
That was all before the remarkable events of the past two days. This is a woman who has campaigned heavily on getting tough with employers who hire undocumented workers and then yesterday, incredibly, we learn that she was one of them! She had an undocumented immigrant working in her house for nine years.
It's not like Meg Whitman's problems with hypocrisy are new. Since the beginning of her campaign, she's been forced to answer questions about the uncomfortable fact that when she casts a vote for herself in a few weeks it'll be the very first time she sets foot in a voting booth! She wants Californians to come to the polls on her behalf and yet she's never deigned to go and vote herself?
Whitman has an ad in which she says that other politicians don't realize how serious the unemployment situation is because "they don't see it every day." However, she declares, "I see it every day." Sure, Whitman sees unemployment every day. That's because she shipped 40% of eBay's jobs overseas! The California Labor Federation called her a "serial outsourcer."
I love California. I've been here for twenty years and I won't ever live anywhere else. The state is as vast as it is varied, but there is a common theme that this is a place where anything is possible. Even if you spend $120 million dollars of your own money, you can still lose.
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Ben Daniel: A Christian Reframing of Meg Whitman's Immigration Hypocrisy
She'll create jobs but not for Americans.
Meg has lived in CA for a while, she is no Californian.
Meg could have spun the illegal immigrant maid. She chose to lie about the letter.
That has stupid written all over it.
Not to mention the it is all the fault of Gloria Allred & Jerry Brown.
We Californians give each other a lot of slack, but if you hang yourself.
We can forget you in a nanosecond or an even faster picofared
I would bet my elbow ebay, all these years, had a contracted office cleaning staff made up entirely of illegal immigrants, not only from Mexico and/or other Central and South American Companies, but
S. Korean, Philippine, and other Asian illegal immigrants, each contractor has a culture specific staff.
If Meg spoke with an Austrian accent she might have a chance.
Some of our Californians have only been here a few short years.
Some people who have lived here for decades somehow just never
became Californian.
I didn't vote for Arnold of course, but we could have done much worse.
he is a conservative pro-business Republican, but he is not:
Anti-worker
Anti-environment
You don't really care about Nicky, do you? Was there a goodbye gift, a helpful referral to a friendly immigration lawyer... or anything that showed you cared for her? No. You cut her off completely. So why all the crocodile tears for her now? You forced Nicky to do this and you are incensed and furious about your own stupid mistake. It seems like poetic justice to me.
How stupid does Meg think we are??? I'm guessing she never called you "Meg".
Maybe Mrs. Meg or Missy Whitman.....but she never called you Meg. Culturally she never would have been so rude, though she was poor, she was raised to respect her boss. I would bet on that!
Makes you think the success of EBay was going to happen anyway and "Meg" was successful in spite of how she ran the business.
I'll have to wait to hear today's debate on C-Span, but I'll bet nothing changed.
Californians, please negate the vote that Whitman casts for herself.
Thanks for a belly laugh.
I do not live in California but I follow politics pretty regularly. I have to admit that I did know that! Have I missed this somewhere or has it just not been played up yet?
And like her namesake at Edinburgh Castle, she ended up getting cracked for it.
We'll see what happens the first Tuesday in November.
--RKJ
So thanks, Meg - thanks for spending your money in California. Now move along. Try South Carolina next time. They can certainly use your money and you might just get elected.
Whitman called Ms. Diaz "a member of our extended family."
Funny, Diaz worked for Whitman for 9 years and was considered a member of the family, but Whitman had no idea whatsoever that Diaz was an illegal immigrant?
I was born at night, but not last night.
if whitman were to become governor, we would all be nikki diaz.
That's not just ugly, it's an implied threat.
Whitman makes me shudder.
that was until she said "you don't know me and I don't know you, understand?"