Meg Whitman has spent more of her own money on her campaign than any candidate in U.S. history. Be proud, eMeg.
Between Steve Poizner, Jerry Brown and Whitman, they could have paid for a bunch of state budget cuts, like "the $10 million slashed from community clinics, the $6.4 million from services to low-income seniors, the $25 million from economic development, the $132 million from services for seriously emotionally disturbed students, the $18 million from drug treatment and $22 million from Medi-Cal."
Isn't that thrifty of them? To say that campaign spending is completely out of control is an obvious understatement.
Meg Whitman, who swearstogod she'd be good for California, spends 90 grand a month-- a month!-- for a political strategist. "A" strategist, not 2 or 3 or 20. Yeah, like we're going to trust her to manage our state's finances.
[T]here might have been more winning ways for Whitman to use the Meg-a-millions she has spent thus far, given the fact that Brown has spent one-sixth as much and appears to have an edge in the latest polls. [...]
"She could have spent over $40,000 on each and every school in California on Program Improvement Status under No Child Left Behind," wrote a reader named Anthony.
She "could have stocked every food bank in California to the rafters AND hosted another medical/dental free clinic at the Staples Center," said DeeCal. [...]
If Whitman's remarkable success in business was her selling point, you'd think she could have made a stronger and more detailed case for economic development...
Who cares, it's only money.
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