Hollywood GOP Closes Its Wallets to Whitman & Fiorina

[LynneSin]

http://www.thewrap.com/media/article/hollywood-conservatives-donations-2010-election-22127

If Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina end up beating the odds on Tuesday, you can bet Hollywood won't make their thank-you lists.

The two Republican candiates have mounted spirited challenges to their Democratic challengers Sen. Barbara Boxer and former Gov. Jerry Brown, but the industry’s band of conservatives have largely decided to sit out these hotly contested races.

TheWrap found a pathetically thin list of Fiorina donors with industry ties (only one hand necessary), and less than two dozen for Whitman (see charts).

Even Whitman's list pales in comparison to the scores of movie, music and television stars who have opened their wallets for Brown and Boxer.

Executives like Michael Lynton and Haim Saban (both well-known liberals) have given to Whitman; but they give a lot more to the other side. Best-selling author Dean Koontz has donated to Fiorina (see below), but after that the list grows scant.

[n2doc]

1. Since both eMeg and Carly are frickin' rich and spending their own money

Why would ANYONE donate to them?

[KingFlorez]

2. Both had all the money they needed

Donors let them fend for themselves.

[Bitwit1234]

3. Hmmm I ain't buying any more Koontz books if that is what

he does with my money.

[ampad]

9. I was thinking the same

I gave up on Koontz after that awful Odd Thomas series. He will never be Stephen King.

[WI_DEM]

4. Oh come on I'm sure they could get another $20 bucks out of Pat Boone.

[rurallib]

5. where's all those clowns that made that awful 'American Christmas Carol'?

don't they put their money where their mouths are?

[Arugula Latte]

6. Sugar Ray Leonard?

WTF?

[Brother Buzz]

7. Maybe more than just the retina got detached

:shrug:

[thelordofhell]

8. Jami Gertz?

I knew there was something freaky about "The Lost Boys"