Meg Whitman

The Western Conservative Political Action Conference has always been a smaller sibling to the annual Washington, D.C., CPAC. It’s gained some strength this year with the addition of speakers like Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) and California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman. But it’s also attracted some notable “birthers.” Tonight’s VIP reception for Pawlenty, which Whitman is [...]

Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO who’s now running as a Republican for governor of California, donated $4,000 to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) in her 2004 Senate race. The news of this, being pushed hard by Whitman’s credible Republican opponents, is the latest minor stumble in a well-funded but naive gubernatorial campaign. It’s also sort [...]

California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner is not letting up on fellow Republican Meg Whitman after her partial walkback of her praise (from months before the current troubles began) of Van Jones.
“Meg Whitman’s praise for Van Jones came just months ago, yet she’s changing her story in an attempt to be rebranded as a Republican,” said [...]

A May 2009 video of California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman praising Van Jones, which was posted by TWI yesterday, has inspired a parody video from the campaign of California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner. It touches all the bases, portraying Whitman as an out-of-touch elitist who hobnobs not just with a man who called Republicans “assholes,” [...]

A mysterious YouTube member named, conveniently, “megwhitmanonvanjones,” has uploaded a May 2009 San Francisco Chronicle video of 2010 GOP California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, in which the former CEO of eBay and former adviser to Mitt Romney and John McCain gushes about suddenly controversial green jobs czar Van Jones.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will traipse through the California heartland today to lend his support to former eBay President and CEO Meg Whitman, a candidate in California’s Republican gubernatorial primary next year.
Whitman is hosting a townhall meeting in Fresno today — and you know McCain can’t resist a good townhall.

Half or more of the people listening to the Mitt Romney/Meg Whitman presentation at the Republican Working Committee on Economic Recovery hearing cleared out when they left. Several reporters join them. That’s the story of the day so far — Romney and a California gubernatorial candidate’s descent from Olympus to go on record with supply [...]