Meg Whitman buys (donates to) her Gubernatorial Campaign

[davidpdx]

Meg Whitman donates $20 million more to her gubernatorial campaign
Ken McLaughlin


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Posted: 01/20/2010 11:44:47 PM PST
Updated: 01/21/2010 12:16:07 AM PST


Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman's campaign will announce today that she has donated $20 million more to her effort to win the Republican gubernatorial primary, the Mercury News learned Wednesday night.

The donation brings the amount she has contributed to her campaign to $39 million. Her remaining opponent in the primary, state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, has donated $19.2 million.

Whitman's latest cash infusion is expected to put more pressure on Poizner, a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur who is trailing Whitman in the polls.

Whitman's poll numbers have been boosted in part by an intensive radio advertising campaign that began last September. Poizner has yet to launch a statewide ad campaign — something that has puzzled some political observers.

Campaign finance reports are not due until the end of the month.

http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_14236312?source=rss&nclick_check=1

[Hannah Bell]

1. Whitman = Monied ancestry. What a coincidence she wound up CEO of ebay.

Taylor. To succeed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Roberts, resigned, President Roosevelt appointed Wayne Chatfield Taylor of Chicago.

Two-thirds of the new Assistant Secretary's name come from his great-granduncle, an immensely wealthy Cincinnatian named Wayne Chatfield. When Wayne Chatfield died he left his money to his grandnephew, the Assistant Secretary's father, Hobart Chatfield Taylor, on condition that the legatee add Chatfield to his last name. Hobart Chatfield Taylor thereupon became Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor, distinguishing himself by writing books (The Idle Born, Fame's Pathway), collecting a large number of decorations from foreign governments, and becoming the butt of some of the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth's best jokes.

Wayne Chatfield Taylor, his eldest son, who repudiates his father's lucrative hyphen, played on Yale's football team in 1915, held a job in Charles G. Dawes's late bank, for a time was a partner in Chicago's Field, Glore & Co., was appointed an executive assistant to George Peek in the early days of AAA.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,755840,00.html

Hobart = just one of her illustrious ancestors.

Hobart married Estelle Barbour Stillman (1878-1960) in 1920; two years after Rose had passed away. Estelle was the daughter of a wealthy Detroit banker and the widow of New York banker, George Schley Stillman, who died of meningitis in 1907 after contracting typhoid fever.

Throughout most of his life, Hobart was known as a patron of fine art and had moved freely among society's high circles. In September of 1937 he announced he was withdrawing from public life. A near fatal heart attack suffered earlier that year while attending the coronation of King Edward VI had greatly sapped his strength.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0154043/bio

[davidpdx]

2. An interesting history

It's also interesting that Time Magazine has archives available that far back. I have a book about Roosevelt that I brought back with me from my last trip home that I will start next month. It is written by Doris Kerns-Goodwin, the same one who wrote Team of Rivals (which I also read).