A victory by Meg Whitman in the race for California governor could deliver Mitt Romney a foothold in a Democratic state. (Noah Berger/Associated Press)
"Romney playing role in Calif. governor race; His support of Whitman could aid ambitions" by Sasha Issenberg, Globe Staff | February 21, 2009
WASHINGTON - .... Mitt Romney and Meg Whitman, a longtime friend and former business colleague who this month entered next year's Republican primary to become the governor of California and former
Especially when they don't really have one: The State Budget Swindle
The parallel careers of Romney and Whitman - fellow Harvard Business School graduates and Bain & Co. consultants - appeared to diverge during the 1990s, when Romney entered politics and Whitman stayed in the corporate world. As Romney ran for office in Massachusetts, and led Salt Lake City's 2002 Olympic Committee, Whitman became CEO of eBay, which helped to make her a billionaire.
Great, just what we need; BILLIONAIRE POLITICIANS!
In the last two years, the trajectories of the two, who both declined to be interviewed for this story, have intersected again. Whitman was an early and prominent Romney backer, the most visible business figure raising money on his behalf. Now she is positioning herself much as Romney did in his first, ultimately unsuccessful race, for US Senate in 1994, as a moderate supportive of abortion rights and a fiscal conservative with managerial acumen rare in politics.
In other words, a Democrat!
"People that supported Mitt would probably also be drawn to the executive experience Meg had in the private sector and think it would be very beneficial in governing the state," said Spencer Zwick, who met Whitman when he directed Romney's presidential fund-raising operation and is now her senior adviser and finance chairman.
"Spencer Zwick, Mr. Romney’s finance director and a fellow Mormon whose father is a high-ranking church official"
It is the first time Zwick, a Utah native who became so close to Romney while working for his Olympic organization that he is treated as part of the family, is working for a politician other than Romney. Zwick, now a partner with Romney's son Tagg in Solamere Capital, says he will stay in Boston but travel regularly to California, where the equity firm has business interests.
Umm, EXCUSE ME, EXCUSE ME, but WHAT EXACTLY is that CARBON FOOTPRINT THERE, bub? How about TELECONFERENCING INSTEAD and SAVING the PFFFFFFT, huh?
Oh, that is ONLY FOR US BOTOM-DWELLING, ELITE FART-BREATHERS, eh?
On Whitman's campaign, Zwick will work alongside deputy campaign manager and finance director Don Stirling, a professional fund-raising consultant who worked for Romney's campaigns and PACs and who was appointed by Romney to head the Massachusetts Sports & Entertainment Committee.
"Don Stirling, a Utah Mormon whose e-mails leaked to The Boston Globe raised questions about whether Romney’s advisers were trying to enlist the LDS Church to promote his potential candidacy. Romney and church officials denied any collusion"
In late 2006, Zwick and Stirling were both involved in controversial outreach to Mormon church leaders to enlist support for Romney's presidential campaign, the Globe reported at the time. Stirling participated in meetings at the Salt Lake City headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which as a nonprofit institution is prohibited by tax laws from participating in electoral politics. Whitman's campaign declined to make Stirling available for an interview.
Other members of Whitman's staff include veterans of Romney's California team, including his senior adviser and finance director in the state. This week, Whitman's exploratory committee unveiled a finance committee that includes several Romney donors, including Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, former
Internet didn't have much background on any of them.
In the Republican primary, Whitman will face state insurance commissioner Steve Poizner, also a retired tech executive, and possibly former US Representative Tom Campbell. A number of Democrats, including former governor Jerry Brown, are considering their own campaigns to replace Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who cannot run again.
YAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!!!
Whitman, along with Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York, is likely to create one of the best-funded campaigns in the country this year, a presidential-style operation at the state level. But aides to both Whitman and Romney downplayed the idea that Romney's confidants gave him an unusual presence on her staff.
"My sense is that Meg Whitman is attracting talent from across the political spectrum," said Fehrnstrom. "She's attracting people who were affiliated with Rudy Giuliani, with John McCain, with Mitt Romney, with all the candidates in 2008."
Yeah, they were all real successful.
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Whitman became cochairwoman of McCain's campaign and raised millions for him from the Silicon Valley sources she had previously tapped for Romney. McCain suggested Whitman as a possible Treasury secretary. After the election, Whitman flattered McCain while appearing to criticize his campaign apparatus for its poor outreach to Latino and young voters, its failure to integrate new technology, and its lost credibility on issues of education, the environment, and healthcare....
Whitman said at a gathering of the Republican Governors Association in November:
"Republicans are losing market share at an alarming rate . . . If we were losing market share at a company like eBay at that rate, heads would roll."
Once again, NOTHING from the RON PAUL WING of LEGIONS in my MSM paper! The OMISSION is MORE GLARING than INCLUSION!--more--"
Hey, maybe she can make it rain:
"Drought to halt US water supply to Calif. farms" by Associated Press | February 21, 2009
And UP GOES the PRICE of FOOD!!!!
SACRAMENTO - Federal water managers said yesterday that they plan to cut off water, at least temporarily, to thousands of California farms as a result of the worsening drought gripping the state.
US Bureau of Reclamation officials said parched reservoirs and patchy rainfall this year were forcing them to stop surface water deliveries for at least a two-week period beginning March 1. Authorities said they haven't had to take such a drastic move for more than 15 years.
The situation could improve slightly if more rain falls over the next few weeks, and officials will know by mid-March whether they can release more irrigation supplies to growers.
Farmers in the nation's leading agriculture state predicted that it would cause consumers to pay more for their fruits and vegetables, which would have to be grown using expensive well water. "Without a reliable water supply, Fresno County's number one employer - agriculture - is at great risk," said Ryan Jacobsen, executive director of the farm bureau in Fresno County.
The drought would cause an estimated $1.15 billion loss in agriculture-related wages and eliminate as many as 40,000 jobs in farm-related industries in the San Joaquin Valley alone, where much of the nation's produce and nuts are grown, said Lester Snow, director of the Department of Water Resources.
California's agricultural industry typically receives 80 percent of all the water supplies managed by the federal government - everything from far-off mountain streams to suburban reservoirs. The state supplies drinking water to 23 million residents and 755,000 acres of irrigated farmland.
See who the GOVERNMENT is working for? Not the LOCAL FARMER, but for the BENEFIT of the CORPORATE CONSOLIDATORS!
Farms supplied from state pumps and canals would also see cutbacks but still get 15 percent of their normal deliveries.
We thirst for everything here in America -- LITERALLY!!
Hey a THIRSTY POPULATION can't fight back!
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"Legislator loses post over antigay remarks" by Associated Press | February 21, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah state senator yesterday was removed from a judicial committee he chaired after he drew criticism for comparing gay activists to radical Muslims in an interview aired this week.
Senator Chris Buttars, a West Jordan Republican, also told former local television reporter Reed Cowan, an openly gay documentary producer who now works at a Miami station, that gay activists are "probably the greatest threat to America."
Well, I don't like them and their agenda-pushing destruction of family; however, the fear is laughable.
Marriages stand and fall on their own, regardless of partners -- just like friendships.
The comments drew calls for Buttars's resignation in Utah and elsewhere. The Washington-based Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights organization, said that by yesterday more than 15,000 e-mails had been sent to Utah Senate President Michael Waddoups, a Taylorsville Republican, demanding that he condemn Buttars's remarks.
Yeah, MEG better not piss off this agenda-pushing group!
Waddoups did not condemn Buttars's statements and said he kicked Buttars off the committee primarily as a way to draw attention away from him. In a brief news conference yesterday, Waddoups declined to say what comments, if any, Buttars made that he and other Republicans disagreed with.
"We think he's a senator that represents the point of view of many of his constituents, of many of ours," Waddoups said. "We agree with many of the things he said. We may disagree with some of them. We may disagree with some of the ways he said it."
Yeah, it's a little something known as FREE SPEECH -- which obviously carries a COST, huh?!!!! Sig Heil!
Buttars said yesterday that he will not issue an apology and will continue to defend traditional marriage.
Good! At least SOMEONE is standing up to the GAY TERRORIZERS!!!!!
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THINK AGAIN!!!!!!!
"Protest organizers said they hoped to tone down the anger that has characterized some previous demonstrations"
What, ANGER, INTOLERANCE, and HATRED at a GAY PROTEST?
Related: Hate-Mongering Homosexuals
Gays Get After Mormons
The paper proves me correct when they also include this Dozens protest gay marriage ban in the Metro section. That's funny; antiwar protesters are down at the corner every weekend and they NEVER get any coverage.
Btw, if gays have a complaint, why don't you take it to the BLACK CHURCHES? From what I heard, they voted 70-30 FOR the BAN!!! How come the gay rights folks only have it in for the Mormons? Or why don't you go after Hispanics, who voted FOR the ban by 53-47? In fact, one wonders HOW the VOTE could have been so CLOSE -- although one does not wonder long in the land of rigged elections.
And before I get charged with being some sort of bigot for opposing the wishes of the divisive, globalist agenda-pushers, reflect upon this...
"The Role of Feminism in the New World Order"
"What do factory workers, women, blacks and homosexuals in Western societies have in common? They all used to have reasons to feel discriminated against. What else do they have in common? Their grievances have been addressed and largely resolved as the result of intense pressure by mostly Jewish intellectuals, media and liberal politicians. Shouldn’t we all be grateful for their effort? Isn’t it proof that Jews are actually making this world a better place? Of course there is nothing wrong with addressing legitimate grievances of parts of society who are unfairly discriminated against. Factory workers shouldn’t be exploited and worked to death. Women and blacks shouldn’t be refused equal rights because of gender or colour of skin. And homosexuals shouldn’t have to fear being bashed for being homosexuals.
One of the most difficult things to get our heads around though is the fact that the driving forces behind fixing those grievances did so for all the wrong reasons. The same masterminds and their puppets who pretended to care so much about the plight of the disadvantaged had no qualms about bringing death and misery upon them for their selfish financial and political gains. What they really were interested in is dividing society and turning us against each other like roosters in a cockfight..... --more--"
I am MORE THAN WILLING to meet halfway! I'm not happy about it, as my state has signed off on gay marriage; however, I ACCEPT IT! As a wiser man than me once said:
"The issue would revert to the states, where it constitutionally belongs.... anyone expecting perfection in this world is going to be consistently disappointed.... "
There are so may other issues to worry about; why is this making my divisive, Zionist-controlled, agenda-pushing War Daili... oh, never mind.
