Meg Whitman, founder and former CEO of E-Bay, and an economic adviser to the McCain campaign last year, wants to be the next Governor of California. She is promising to use her business experience at E-Bay to create two million new private sector jobs in the state by 2015. Except that a state government and a dot-com business are not the same thing; E-Bay isn’t on the hook for billions of dollars in social welfare to illegal aliens and otherwise most of Mexico and Central America’s former population.
Didn’t Arnold Schwarzenegger tell us in 2003 that he was fit to solve the state’s fiscal problems because he once saw the books for the production budget of Terminator? Now, California’s projected deficit is twice that of Missouri’s entire budget.
Let me help Miss Whitman with a little math. California 2008 Presidential Election Results: Obama 61%, McCain 38%. I highly doubt that a 2010 iteration of California, which will be even more Mexican, will warm up to you much more than it warmed up to the man you advised last year.
That said, the winner of the Democrat Primary will be the next Governor. All the buzz and hype is around San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, but he’s a one-city one-constituency (S.F., homosexuals) sideshow. Of all the Democrats that are actually going to mount a serious effort, my bet would be on the state Superintendent of Public Instruction (a statewide elected office), Jack O’Connell. A few years ago, he came out with a crack that white teachers are to blame for black and Hispanic educational failure. Therefore, he’s pandering to all the right constituencies. If Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa does not put his hat into the ring, O’Connell’s a shoo-in, I can ill imagine all those Chicano voters voting for some effeminate girly metrosexual (and probably homosexual) like Newsom.
