Whitman gives $20M to her Calif. gubernatorial run

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SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman says she has given her campaign for governor another $20 million.

Her campaign on Thursday says the money will bring her total cash on hand to more than $30 million.

With two former Silicon Valley tech leaders competing for the Republican nomination, the contest is likely to become the most expensive in California history.

Whitman gave her campaign $19 million last year and has spent more than $20 million on radio commercials, consultants and advisers.

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1. With all this dough she's dropping on commercials she is guaranteed at least one vote

That is, if she learns to multi-task and find the time to vote.

Meg Whitman: I Didn't Vote Because I Was Focused On My Family

Eric Kleefeld | September 30, 2009

Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of California in 2010, has an interesting explanation for the fact that she's hardly ever voted, and didn't even register until seven years ago, when she was 46: She was too dedicated to her family to vote.

"I was focused on raising a family, on my husband's career, and we moved many, many times," she told reporters. "It is no excuse. My voting record, my registration record, is unacceptable."

As the Sacramento Bee reported, no record exists of Whitman registering to vote until she was 46, and had already had a very active career in business.

To get a better idea of what that number means, let's compare Whitman's political non-involvement to some other politicians, when they were at that age: Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination for President at 46; Bill Clinton was elected President at 46; Joe Biden was a third-term Senator who had just run unsuccessfully for President. Finally, Sarah Palin ran for Vice President at a younger age than that, 44 years old.

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