Meg Whitman is spending $Millions with a very short message full of little information. What is she afraid to say about her candidacy? That she is going to continue the failed policy of Governor Arnold S. of not taxing the rich individuals and rich excess-profit corporations enough, that got us partly into almost the worst/second Great Depression?
Seems she could have and should have paid more taxes, especially Social Security tax on her full income instead of just the 'legal' first $200k. "Deregulation" has been a failure, with smaller and smaller government unable to properly regulate banks and businesses that have cost us all jobs, savings, and a brighter future. I'll bet Meg Whitman the candidate is against salary accountability, but for take all you can get !!
This is such a wrong basic philosophy for California , now, with massive debt, and a terrible lowest-in-USA bond rating that is costing us too much. We need a strong candidate who knows the corrupt and unreliable Sacramento Machine that has disregarded the public interest for the corporate rich and individual rich lobbyists interests,,,and who can fight to return some fair and reasonable progressive tax balance to the broke and busted State of California.
Meg Whitman the candidate for state leader Governor is not talking about how she is going to fix all our potholes that make our roads, city and highway, the worst in the USA.
Whitman is not talking about how she is going to improve our state bond rating so we don't pay way too much as a State to borrow money.
Meg Whitman does not also seem to be talking about how our public school system-other than give up charter schools- is failing with superintendents taking golden parachutes and golden handshakes, when that proposition to limit school districts to a 10% administrative budget was a good idea. Teacher should just teach, and administrators and the PTA can do all the rest. To require teachers to do more than teach for so little pay just perpetuates a system where most young idealistic teachers quit the field in just a few years.
But Meg Whitman the candidate for California Governor seems to be trying to buy the office, instead of full disclosure and the willingness to lead us all, not just the already spoiled and greedy rich individuals and corporations.
Do you know what terrible secret back room tax cut deals and not so secret embarrassing deals cities and counties and the State of California have made in the past and recently ? The City of Monterey get $1/year from part of the HP massive fortune from the Monterey Bay Aquarium !? Shame on HP for making such a terrible public image deal with their smarter and higher paid lawyers, as the aquarium would not and practically could not be sited anywhere else but Monterey. How does Monterey pay for the additional policing and trash impact ? And MBAQ has many rich and generous donors,,,Shame shame shame on you HP, Packard family, and City of Monterey for making such a bad for the public interest 'deal' !!
Is candidate Meg Whitman not going to raise taxes on those that can easily afford is ,,,so California becomes even more of a third world state, with failing infrastructure that IS the State of California's responsibility ?!! Shame shame shame on you California state govt for closing the adequate and many state mental hospitals in the 1970s and kicking those legally insane and mentally ill to the sidewalks of SF !!
What is she going to do with/about the state highway dept. , CalTrans, that failed to see the east Bay Bridge should not have been repaired after the 1989 quake one top section failure, when the whole dumb thing was built on wood in 1936 in the mud and the water !!
And now CalTrans has directly cost us Californians by its incompetence in mishandling the replacement bridge contract not the original $1Billion in bloated cost,,,but over $10Billion IN COST OVERRUNS !!
Candidate Meg Whitman is not talking about a lot she should be talking a lot about as a possible leader. We have had too many bad Governors, like her supporter Grey Davis, the only Governor kicked out of office for lying to us about deregulating home gas and electric energy and the price would go down,,,not up, as it did,,, 4xs the first month for some. And bankrupted the state(Enron dvd,also Electric car dvd). Good riddance Grey Davis,,,and Meg Whitman,,,and do little, tax not enuf Governor Arnold S.!!
And you, PG&E, will not deceive us California voters EITHER !! We remember you costing us $5B with these new unreliable home meters,,,and 'Erin Brockovich' movie !! You can not be trusted and need to be very strongly regulated !!
