Meg Whitman's corporately-sponsored candidacy

[marmar]

from the Sacramento Bee:



March 5, 2010
Meg Whitman leading the CEO race


Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman has pledged to bring business discipline to the governor's office if she wins, and apparently her fellow CEOs agree.

Whitman has collected about $1.5 million from people who identify themselves as CEOs, far ahead of her Republican rival Steve Poizner, another former CEO who's collected about $160,000 from CEOs. The tabulation doesn't include donations under $5,000 given this year.

Democratic candidate Jerry Brown has brought in about $480,000 from CEOs.

Whitman's CEO supporters make up a veritable Hall of Fame of American capitalism. They include:
• Nike CEO Philip Knight
• Michael White -- formerly of Pepsico and now of DIRECTV
• Paul Otellini of chip-maker Intel
• Howard Schultz of Starbucks
• Jeffrey Immelt of GE
• Patrick O'Dea of Peet's Coffee
• Gregory Waldorf of online dating site eHarmony
• Terri Dial of Citicorp's consumer banking division
• John Chambers of tech giant Cisco

Brown's CEO backers include Larry Ellison at Oracle, Robert Iger of the Walt Disney Co. and Thomas Priselac of Cedars-Sinai Medical System.

Poizner's CEO club includes Melvin Kaplan of Wellington Financial Group and Chester John Pipkin of electronics accessories-maker Belkin Intl., who also donated to Brown.


http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitolalertlatest/2010/03/meg-whitman-lea.html

[Cleita]

1. Yes, let's run California like a business, uh? But wasn't that what MBA

Arnold Schwarzenegger is doing? It's not working so well, is it? Businesses are kingdoms with the CEO and upper management as the king and his nobles. Everyone else is a serf with very few rights or choices. This is not democracy. I hope Jerry Brown calls her on it when he's on the campaign trail.

[DBoon]

2. The way most American businesses are run...

She'd fire all the competent, well paid employees, the stock price would soar, she'd get amazing multi-million dollar bonuses

In the end the work would be outsourced to China, the company would shrink, product reputation would be destroyed, and she would be hailed as a great leader, giving guest lectures to budding MBAs