Meg Whitman buying California governorship? (accuse, suspect, independent, education)

[NorCal77]

Looks like this big corporate repug is trying to climb the ladder. Local news did a piece on her...thus far she has spent $80 per vote on her campaign and has budgeted $160 mill total of her own money! That is a lot of money for someone who hasn't voted in 20 years LOL Can you smell a rat?

Essentially she's been a global marketing manager for hire for the likes of Proctor and Gamble,Bain and Company,Disney,Hasbro,and FEEbay.

I don't think anyone who sits in the Terminators seat is going to like sitting in a chair with only two legs, but.......SHE'S MORE THAN SUSPECT!

[MIKEETC]

This is nothing new.

[shorebaby]

Exactly how does one buy an election? Do they toss $100 bills to the electorate. I would be fascinated to hear how this works.

[delusianne]

If voters would just research the issues and the candidates, which they can do for free, and decide for themselves instead of relying on television commercials and similar extraneous pressures to tell them what to think and do.... going to be a million times more important now that the Supreme Court blocked the ban on corporate spending. However I dont have high hopes for this really coming about in a meaningful way, ever, in the grim future. Citizens get their political educations from propaganda nowadays and arent interested in acquiring the tools they need to become independent. /rant

[cokatie]

Now cast a glance to the East and take a look at Mike Bloomberg. Like Mikeetc says, nothing new - at least for the people with money.

[AnUnidentifiedMale]

There have been many candidates who have been accused of "buying" an elected office in California, and most of them have lost.

[NorCal77]

Originally Posted by shorebaby

Exactly how does one buy an election? Do they toss $100 bills to the electorate. I would be fascinated to hear how this works.

You force feed people with heavy campaigning and eventually they get programmed to the empty rhetoric. Same principle as FM radio

[NorCal77]

Originally Posted by cokatie

Now cast a glance to the East and take a look at Mike Bloomberg. Like Mikeetc says, nothing new - at least for the people with money.

I'm guessing he voted at some point in the last 20 years?

[shorebaby]

Originally Posted by AnUnidentifiedMale

There have been many candidates who have been accused of "buying" an elected office in California, and most of them have lost.

Exactly.

[Bagger]

Originally Posted by delusianne

If voters would just research the issues and the candidates, which they can do for free, and decide for themselves instead of relying on television commercials and similar extraneous pressures to tell them what to think and do.... going to be a million times more important now that the Supreme Court blocked the ban on corporate spending. However I dont have high hopes for this really coming about in a meaningful way. Citizens get their political educations from propaganda nowadays and arent interested in acquiring the tools they need to become independent. /rant

Not sure if you heard of Prop 16 which was funded by PG&E (Utility company)... but they put out something like $40+ million trying to get it passed using very misleading advertising. Amazingly, it was defeated but it was close. There was a lot of criticism of Prop 16 from editorial pages in newspapers of all political leanings throughout the state. And yet, PG&E still almost bought the vote with their heavy and misleading advertising.

I don't think we can count on the that sort of unity against something pushed that hard by corp spending in the future. Maybe... but I kind of doubt it.