Posted by Tina
For your consideration in the next years race for governor:
Whitman makes first public pitch for governor, by Carla Marinucci SF Chronicle
** Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, in her first public campaign appearance as a 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate, Tuesday warned that the state’s top political job is “not a popularity contest” and said that California desperately needs an experienced business executive to rescue it from what she called the “insanity” of its current budget crisis. *** “Californians can no longer afford the government they have,” Whitman told an invited audience about 150 business leaders, who gave her a warm reception at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose. “I will give them the government they deserve.” *** Whitman, a billionaire who has never run for public office and is funding her own campaign, told the crowd the reason she aspires to the state’s top job is “really very simple. I refuse to let California fail.” *** “We need a governor who knows what she believes, a governor who is committed to holding the line on taxes … a governor who has actually created jobs,” she said. *** She said she would govern guided by four principles: “by streamlining regulations, by structuring and cutting taxes, by spending less and by spending smarter.” **
Ms Whitman was a Romney supporter in the presidential race and served as one of his financial advisors.