very few moderate gopsters won, especially those who distanced themselves from Palin
this lesson is obvious On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Tommy News <[email protected]> wrote: > Meg Whitman, Millionaire Profiteer Employer of Illegal Worker, loses > Ebay bid to buy California Governors Mansion > > ‘Buy It Now’ FAIL: Former eBay CEO Whitman Is The Biggest Loser > By John C Abell November 3, 2010 | 2:39 pm | Categories: People, > Politics, Silicon Valley > > Meg Whitman during visit to her Victory 2010 Headquarters in Temecula, > Monday, Nov. 1, 2010. Photo by Eric Draper/Meg Whitman for Governor > 2010. Used with gratitude via a Creative Commons license. > > Despite big gains for Republicans at every level in this year’s > mid-terms election, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman lost big despite > bidding huge to win California’s governorship. The failed attempt cost > Whitman an estimated $160 million, mostly from her own pocket, in what > was by far the biggest chunk of personal fortune any person in the > United States has ever spent trying to get elected to anything. > > Don’t cry for Meg — Whitman is still a billionaire. She won’t be > searching her attic for potential auction items to make ends meet. But > Whitman did outspend once-and-future governor Gerry Brown six-to-one > and now joins the ranks of some pretty wealthy people, many with zero > political cred, who couldn’t paper over inexperience and an imperious > CEO’s manner with glossy TV ads. On which, by the way, she spent about > $107 million alone, according to California Watch, for nothing nearly > as memorable as the “Demon Sheep” spot that Carly Fiorina put on > YouTube for free. > > Whitman may be Queen of the Hill in personally-funded futility, but > she was hardly alone. Former professional wrestling entrepreneur Linda > McMahon spent $47 million of her own moeny losing to Richard > Blumenthal in the Connecticut Senate race. Another techie, former > Microsoft VP Suzan DelBene, spent $2.28 million on a losing bid for > the House seat in Washington’s 8th District. In all some $500 million > was spent by 58 candidates who contributed at least $500,000 to their > own campaigns, Bloomberg reports, and 30 lost or dropped out. > > Fiorina doled out “only” $5.5 million in her losing bid to unseat Sen. > Barbara Boxer. But the former Hewlett-Packard CEO was up against a > popular incumbent while Whitman’s loss was for an open seat. And in > Brown her opponent was a candidate who, though he is the state’s > current attorney general, is best known as an ultra-liberal former > California governor whose heyday was in the 1970s, is > not-always-fondly referred to as “Gov. Moonbeam” and didn’t even have > enough money to run TV ads until September. > > So Whitman’s loss has to hurt, just a little. While we’d never be so > crass as to suggest that she was trying to buy the election maybe > Whitman’s wondering what she might have spent that $160 million on > instead. > > Wired.com is here to help. Here are a five back-of-the-envelope ideas: > > Building something like Bill Gates’ house. It cost an estimated $100 > million. That leaves plenty left over for … > A 767-200 — just like the one Sergy and Larry have. The Google > founders are thought to have paid about $25 million to buy and fix it > up theirs, but a new one goes for as much at $140 million. The landing > rights they have at NASA’s Moffett Field? Priceless. > Embarrass that piker Mark Zuckerberg by going 60 per cent better than > the Facebook founder’s charitable contribution to the Newark, N.J. > school system. > Commission some “big” and “reasonably expensive” boats, like former > Netscape CEO Jim Clark’s Hyperion. Clark denied that his 155-foot > yacht cost as much as $50 million when he got it in 1998, but even if > it was that pricey you could have still funded your own flotilla. > Invent and then sell the iPad for one day — no, wait, that’s how to > make $150 million. > Buy your own private island. If you’re as savvy as Johnny Depp, you’d > have had about $154 million left over to run for something else. > Got your own ideas? Leave us a comment. > > > > Read More > http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/the-biggest-loser/comment-page-1/#ixzz14Fnn4V7r > > -- > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time. > Have a great day, > Tommy > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! 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