On Meet the Press, Meg Whitman’s consultant, Mike Murphy, laid it out for all the Californians that are getting extremely annoyed with Whitman’s incessant ads:<\/p>\n
MR. ASLAN: My question, Mike, is, why does Meg what to be governor of California? Why would anyone want to be governor of California?<\/p>\n
MR. MURPHY: Because…<\/p>\n
MS. MYERS: Let alone spend 140 million of their own money to get it.<\/p>\n
MR. MURPHY: Yeah, but the money is about getting–California is so expensive, $3 million a week for television, it’s about getting a message out against the entrenched public employee unions.<\/p>\n
MR. GREGORY: OK.<\/p>\n
MR. MURPHY: I’m mean, I’m…(unintelligible)…but I believe it. I live there. I care about it. (Meet the Press<\/a>, h\/t to LA Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So, the reason that she wants to buy the governor’s office? Well, we didn’t really get an answer to that one, now did we. But what did we get an answer for? Well, apparently Meg Whitman needs to spend 3 million per week to fight the unions that put up…a grand total of around $8 million this summer. And there’s not going to be a lot more than that.<\/p>\n
The truth is that Meg Whitman is using the state of California. She wants to decimate the middle class by crushing the organization of labor in the state and to use the gig as a jumping off point for her further national political ambitions. <\/p>\n
But when you come down to it, there is no there there. Her plans, even according to her Republican “friend”, the current Governor, are nothing more than cheap campaign promises. And when she does come close to laying out a plan<\/a>, she gets the facts wrong in her haste to make state employees the face of all that is wrong in California.<\/p>\n
What is wrong is that we have stopped investing in our state. We have stopped building infrastructure, reduced our investments in K12 and higher education, and stopped planning for the future, instead coasting on the success of the master plan legacy. That will not be sufficient if we are to compete in the 21st century. Maybe Meg Whitman knows that, maybe she doesn’t. But either way, her stated goals are just wrong for California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Meet the Press, Meg Whitman’s consultant, Mike Murphy, laid it out for all the Californians that are getting extremely annoyed with Whitman’s incessant ads:<\/p>\n
MR. ASLAN: My question, Mike, is, why does Meg what to be governor of California? Why would anyone want to be governor of California?<\/p>\n
MR. MURPHY: Because…<\/p>\n
MS. MYERS: Let alone spend 140 million of their own money to get it.<\/p>\n
MR. MURPHY: Yeah, but the money is about getting–California is so expensive, $3 million a week for television, it’s about getting a message out against the entrenched public employee unions.<\/p>\n
MR. GREGORY: OK.<\/p>\n
MR. MURPHY: I’m mean, I’m…(unintelligible)…but I believe it. I live there. I care about it. (Meet the Press<\/a>, h\/t to LA Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So, the reason that she wants to buy the governor’s office? Well, we didn’t really get an answer to that one, now did we. But what did we get an answer for? Well, apparently Meg Whitman needs to spend 3 million per week to fight the unions that put up…a grand total of around $8 million this summer. And there’s not going to be a lot more than that.<\/p>\n
The truth is that Meg Whitman is using the state of California. She wants to decimate the middle class by crushing the organization of labor in the state and to use the gig as a jumping off point for her further national political ambitions. <\/p>\n