Meg Whitman

Let's List Governor of California On eBay

Terry Gardner | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics


Terry Gardner

For months (if not years) we've been reading that the State of California is broke. Here are two possible solutions.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Brown, Bill Clinton and That Crazy California Governorship

William Bradley | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics


William Bradley

California's next governor is likely someone who's already won a landslide election as governor, albeit 30 years ago. That's Jerry Brown, who won his latest landslide for Attorney General in 2006.

Meg Whitman: I Clearly Remember Voting In 1984

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics


Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO and current Republican candidate for Governor of California, has been under fire recently for her "unacceptable" (her...

An Open Letter from Meg Whitman About Voting

Chris Kelly | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics


Chris Kelly

Meg Whitman just proved that she votes using the argumentum ad ignorantiam and the transitivity of implication. Now that's a candidate who values education.

Will California Become America's First Failed State?

The Observer | Paul Harris | Posted 10.03.2009 | Business


California may be the eighth largest economy in the world, but its state staff are being paid in IOUs, unemployment is at its highest in 70 years, and...

Gavin Newsom and Meg Whitman Should Hope to Face Each Other

Byron Williams | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics


Byron Williams

The infractions of Whitman and Newsom are so fundamental in nature that they challenge the very rationale for their candidacy. Words that come to mind are arrogance, selfish, self-centered.

Meg Whitman: "My Voting Record... Is Unacceptable"

AP | JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics


DAVIS, Calif. � Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman said Tuesday that it wasn't until she was a chief executive in Silicon Valley that sh...

Let Corporations Be (Just) Corporations

Michael Sigman | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics


Michael Sigman

Corporations are dictatorships, with everyone reporting to the CEO. Governments are vast cooperative bodies with legislatures, courts and other institutions without which executives can't get much done.

Meg Whitman Registered To Vote At 46, Became A Republican 2 Years Ago

LA Times | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics


The former EBay CEO and current gubernatorial candidate didn't cast a ballot in an election until she was 46. Former EBay CEO Meg Whitman isn't the...

Meg Whitman Voting Record: Ex-eBay CEO's Voting Record Questioned At GOP Meeting

AP / Huffington Post | By JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics


INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman sought to redirect attention from her spotty voting record Saturday as she prom...

Misguided: Whitman Wants to Roll Back California Climate Plan

Heather Taylor-Miesle | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics


Heather Taylor-Miesle

Whitman says she would place a moratorium on AB-32 by executive order. It's hard to imagine a more effective way to choke off the burgeoning clean energy economy.

Meg Whitman For Governor: Campaign Official For Ex-eBay CEO (VIDEO)

AP | JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 11.22.2009 | Technology


SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman officially launched her bid for governor of California on Tuesday, sketching out he...

Five Questions for Meg Whitman

Chris Kelly | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics


Chris Kelly

Meg Whitman, the richest female CEO in U.S. history, will officially announce that she's running for Governor of California today. Because who doesn't love people who've made a lot of money in the market.

Update: Meg Whitman Does Not Heart Van Jones

Chris Kelly | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics


Chris Kelly

Meg wants you to know that, when it comes to Van Jones, although she "got to know him very well" and she's "a big fan," she also hates everything he stands for, and doesn't know him from Adam Clayton Powell.

Van Jones Hearts Meg Whitman

Chris Kelly | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics


Chris Kelly

Meg Whitman once said something nice about Van Jones, which didn't mean anything at the time, but now proves she supports collectivism and miscegenation.

Why Would Anyone Want to Be Governor of California?

Matt Littman | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics


Matt Littman

The next leader of our state should be so lucky as to be caught picking up a prostitute -- that appears to be a better career path than the dead-end job of Governor of California.

Meg Whitman Writing Book On Values, eBay Tenure

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 06.25.2009 | Media


NEW YORK — Former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman, a presumed candidate for governor of California, is working on a book about the "core values...

Meg Whitman Week -- Thursday: God and Meg at UCLA

Chris Kelly | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics


Chris Kelly

Meg Whitman isn't a bigot. Because bigotry is almost a political position. Meg Whitman is running for governor because she thinks billionaires have to obey far too many laws. Gay marriage is a sideshow.

Meg Whitman Week -- Wednesday: A Tawdry Episode

Chris Kelly | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics


Chris Kelly

Meg Whitman earned her money herself. All $1.4 billion of it. It came from perseverance, patience and long hard honest work. Except for the $1.78 million from Goldman Sachs. Which she stole.

Meg Whitman Week -- Monday: Meg Actually Gives an Interview

Chris Kelly | Posted 06.10.2009 | Politics


Chris Kelly

Meg Whitman has spent her life in fairly high profile business positions. There's evidence that she's spoken to groups. So why is she only engaging in interviews that are the journalistic version of pity sex?

How the Rising Gay Marriage Issue Affects Cal Gov Race

Phil Trounstine | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics


Phil Trounstine

The cultural war over gay marriage has suddenly re-emerged nationally, setting the stage for volatile political developments in California.

Obama's California: The Arnold Alliance and More

William Bradley | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics


William Bradley

President Barack Obama is back in the east after a whirlwind visit to California which pointed up his strengths and suggested some things he can do differently.

California Conservatives Without a Firebrand in the Governor's Race

Phil Trounstine | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics


Phil Trounstine

The genuine, red-blooded, God-fearing, movement conservatives in California have no candidate for governor to call their own this time out.

eBay's Meg Whitman: Can She Save California?

Fortune Magazine | Patricia Sellers | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business


(Fortune Magazine) -- It's been barely a month since Meg Whitman declared that she was running for governor of California, and the skewers are already...

Wikipedia Can't Handle My Truth

Chris Kelly | Posted 04.13.2009 | Media


Chris Kelly

It's not Wikipedia's job to peddle paranoid hearsay. That's Townhall's job. Wikipedia's job is to be written at a seventh grade reading level and be about half as useful as the Columbia Desk Encyclopedia.