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Comical former eBay CEO and McCain campaign “female supporter” Meg Whitman, currently running for governor of California, has simply had a terrible last week. Some lib for the Sacramento Bee exposed her recently as a lousy civic bum who had never registered to vote before age 46. Dearest Meg has apologized numerous times since then, but has only now offered this mea culpa: “I was focused on raising a family, on my husband’s career, and we moved many, many times.” Hey, those are our reasons too! [AP]
so when she crashed her political career (locking pedals, a recurrent curse), it was her family’s fault. of course! will it play in argentina?
Keep digging tubby.
I haven’t lived in the U.S. for over 10 years, but I still fucking vote.
Wow let’s see, I was drunk, high on drugs, and moved many times too, yet still managed to vote. Not all the time, but more than her. But she ran ebay so she must know how to do something right? Or maybe there was just a need for people selling old beanie babies and star wars action figures online? And that other C fiorina is running too? WTF?
Meg Whitman is an un-civic Turd. Get an absentee ballot you idiot.
Silly Wonketteers!!! Everyone knows that money is more important than votes!
California needs to sell Whitman on eBay. You know she loves the State when she says:
“Honestly, when I talk about spending, I get mad,”
You see, Megan apparently has an anger-issue when it comes to spending money. She utterly refuses to do it. Surely that large house of hers was actually a freak give-away from some E-Bay auction. She’s a money-hog with a gilded message. This hasn’t work for the last 6 years for this god damn place, and it isn’t going to work for the next 4. This fake Anger Bear will probably drive us all into deep poverty, and that will pretty much be the end of it.
So to all of you out there who hate California— keep your hopes up. This place will all be a barren wasteland soon— filled with the same swine you saw in Road Warrior. Not even the lead actor from said movie will be able to continue his California lifestyle of getting drunk and hating the Jews. This will be ugly. No question about it.
And the dog ate my absentee ballots.
My kids complain all the time about how they never see me because I go to vote on those couple days a year the socialists hold their elections.
Still, better than her original explanation: “I didn’t vote because I’m a convicted felon.”
If California elects her Guv to follow the action movie guy, then there should be an initiative on the ballot where it can vote to just slide into the Pacific.
My nanny was soooooo demanding. She insisted that touch the children at least once a day.
wait– how can I get that ghost in a box? I *MUST* have that!
I, for one, am shocked that a self involved dumbass acts as self involved dumbass.
On a more serious note, I’m starting to think that Heinlein’s Starship Troopers idea of service (civilian or military)* before gaining the vote isn’t such a bad thing. Mostly to keep self involved dipshits like Meg Whitman who seem to think that the word duty is slang for shit from ever running for office.
*to those folks who get upset by the whole “military service for the vote” thing should remember that the book is called Starship TROOPERs and not Starship Bureaucrats so it’s focus is only blowing up bugs.
Meg Whitman’s ballot is in that box.
Or is it?
shortsshortsshorts:
Except when she bought an overhyped/priced Skype that helped suck off a lot of that wonderful cash that E-bay socked away.
Spending is bad unless she’s the idiot doing the spending and fucking up.
She should have said, I didn’t vote because I wasn’t in the election.
Beyond that so what. I actually sent Big O money, not only are his policies more or less what Bush or McCain would have done, but he is identical stylistically. Even worse by electing a democrat whatever opposition was developing has be dissipated. I support Super Meg in her not voting, if only she would admit why she didn’t vote.
Wait, isn’t she Palin’s spokesscapegoat? I’m confused. Too many Meg/Meghans in the GOP.
Oh, gosh, having a family is haaaaaaarrrrrd. It takes up, like, all of your time. Plus have you seen the lines at the polling place? I mean do you actually expect me to stand next to those people? They smell. Oh, and I’m a total political dilettante who using my money to buy political influence. But really, it’s more about my family, I swear.
Soooo…everyone named Meg sucks??
If you’re a republican, having a family with kids will cover all your transgressions. The more kids you have, the more transgressions you get covered. Think of it as the opposite of the democrat’s “welfare queen” approach to kids.
If I were registered to vote, I’d send those fat cats a message by staying home on election day!
My wife’s family moved 35 times in 33 years and her pops faught in 3 wars, yet the parents never missed an opportunity to vote. So go fuck yerself in Macy’s window, Megs.
I’m surprised she didn’t try, “Reagan said government isn’t the solution it’s the problem, so I didn’t want to contribute to the problem by voting.”
and I never upgraded my Dell from Windows 3.1. …, oops wrong CALI retard politician.
Look, Meg wanted to vote, but every time she tried, someone else always voted at the last second. So she finally gave up.
Cicada: someone should have told her those long lines are only where the poors live.
Im sure the lines in those gated communities are like 1-2 deep. Cmon people thats a lot of work. Man you people expect someone running for Governor to have the determination to wait like 30 seconds to vote?
I’ve taken my daughter with me for almost every election and let her touch the screen or pull the level to make the vote final and she told me she loved doing that. So I guess she’s been lying all these years.
She just wanted to keep her voting registration card in MINT CONDITION -*- NEW IN BOX -*- NEVER USED.
How time-consuming is it to be focused on your husband’s career? Did his job really require two people, or was he so slovenly that he just couldn’t accomplish anything himself? Really, Meg, just say you didn’t care.
As soon as they make it legal to send your gardener to vote on your behalf (being illegal, José can’t vote himself in any case), Meg will vote regularly.
We elected an action figure as goobernor, and he immediately ran up against the same thing boring old Grey (”Gray”) Davis did: Prop 13 and super-majority required to pass a budget, which means gummint is held hostage by a few Republan jehadis from the empty counties.
So now let’s elect a bizness chick to run the gummint. Because government is just like a business. Everyone knows that. She’ll eliminate waste! No one else could ever do that, but Meg’ll get it done!
Come here a minute: It was either that or it was stolen and sold and Ebay.
ManchuCandidate: Yeah, but she did buy paypal for just 1.5B, that was a pretty shrewd move. She may be one of those rethugs that are barely conservative, I don’t know. At least she will know how to keep her personal emails seperate from her official ones, big improvement over most repubs, and she knows to reboot BEFORE calling the IT help desk, I’ll bet.
Kudos to her, voting is irrational. The odds of the single vote you cast actually deciding the election (meaning that if you had not cast your vote the election outcome would have been different) are so low that you are better off not voting and saving the time and effort required.
I heard Meg on the radio this morning and I have to say in her defense that she is batshit crazy.
Nut Meg Whitman - Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
She didn’t vote because she’s a firm believer in repealing womens’ suffrage.
California will never elect this creature. She should consider running in Utah where they like to vote for lumpy, pale Mormons.
Meg Whitman is busy right now re-listing herself.
How about this: some people just don’t get to be governor. Sorry, Meg. Just like the kids who drop band in 9th grade don’t get to conduct the New York Philharmonic. Boo hoo. You’re welcome to go make a bejillion dollars in the business world, and if you can find a homeowner’s association who will have you, feel free to serve on it’s board. But if you couldn’t bother to register and vote for your entire life, governor is just one job you can’t have. Seriously, why the fuck do you even want it?
I think her prospective constituents should follow her example and not vote…for her.
I like her ‘Samplers’.
Ah, California politics.
Not registering to vote is one way to avoid jury duty.
The Sophist: And if you are a blue voter in a red state, you might as well stay home and watch Redtube.com ’cause your doesn’t count at all.
Meg’s a douche. I knew her when I worked at eBay. Her admin was a raving lesbo (and quite cute I might add) who was in a committed relationship. So her whole “I-hate-the-gayz-for-marrying” shit is going to get exposed in the primary — especially when I email the campaigns of her, no doubt, wing-nut rivals.
She doesn’t believe in all that religio wing-nut crap — she’s a classic East Coast patrician Republican. Yet she’s playing the game. BTW — her PR dude, Henry Gomez, is a registered Democrat!!!!
Enjoy the train-wreck….it’s gonna be a blast.
Give the woman a break, peops. Elected officials never do anything that affects families, husbands, etc. so why the fuck should she vote?
Those are exactly the reasons I don’t vote! Or pay taxes, or clean up my dog’s poop.
I swear to God, tricky dick Gavin better whoop her ass in this election or I’ll have lost hope in California.
RoscoePColtraine: I actually agree 100% with Meg Whitman regarding her own characterization of her voting record as “unacceptable.” But where we differ is that in genuine, actual, reality, I truly DON’T accept it, whereas she apparently does. Elected office is not something you BUY, Meg, out of your entitled bazillions. Or rather, if you do buy it, you should at the very least make a semblance of participating in a democracy the way ordinary people do.
Meggie took all the fun out of eBay. Think what she could do for California!
I bet even skoalrebel could put together a campaign commercial with that little tidbit.
Potater: Jerry Brown is killing in the polls right now. I met Gavin at a fundraiser here and he is actually a great speaker but I don’t see it happening right now for him…….
Keep movin’, bitch
Bish, plz
Mahousu: WIN.
She also has a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp:
http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/biography/images/idbb_04_img0315.jpg
As an ex-Sacramentan, I am thrilled to see that my beloved Bee still apparently employs some Real Journalists.
There are no records extant of Meg’s registering to vote before 2006, including the high-turnout 2000 general and 2003 gubernatorial recall elections.* By that time she was running Ebay, which of course would keep her busy but isn’t the family flag she’s trying to wrap herself up in. (”I was busy making money” just doesn’t sound as good ;).)
*Yours truly was working in county gummint near the voter’s office and directed a lot of traffic for the week plus leading up to those days. Too bad Meg wasn’t registered then, she could have joined the rest of the state in running!
California also considerably liberalized its absentee voter rules in the last decade. Now anyone can apply to be a “permanent absentee voter” (you don’t have to be old or claim disability of some sort) and have the county automatically mail their ballot to them.
Let’s hope that Meg runs her own campaign as well as she “helped” with John McCain’s. I mean, she was a “senior advisor” on that campaign and Sarah Palin’s expensive clothes still ended up moldering in garbage bags at HQ? Meg couldn’t have borrowed a couple of peeps from Ebay to photograph them nicely and set up a charity auction? And she thinks she can run California, where, unlike Ebay, the People Who Get Things Done will not be kissing her ass? Organizational FAIL.
themcw: Anecdata, I know, but the California courts check DMV records as well as voting records. My ex, who is a Canadian national, got a notice to serve before I did.
It took them a surprisingly long time to catch up with me; I own my house and re-registering to vote is something I do at the same time as changing my DMV records.
randomsausage: I didn’t think she has wingnutty opponents in this primary. The wingnuts are wringing their hands about it. Tom Campbell is certainly sane (and would be a far better governor than Meg), although I don’t know if the other guy could start going TPaw on us in an effort to pander to the base.
Correction: she registered in 2002, but didn’t vote in ‘03 or ‘04.
BerkeleyFarm: Yeah - I’ve met Campbell and he is indeed something of a rarity: a likable, serious and seemingly competent Republican. No matter who gets in, the state is essentially fucked until we get rid of the 2/3 budget vote.
There are enough wing-nuts down south in Orange County….so I wouldn’t lose hope quite yet on one running!