Meg Whitman for Governor
I sure hope not! Gawker has some good analysis:
She talks about the 1.3 million jobs she “created” among people making their business selling goods on eBay. But most of those people were already in business, and just found a new sales outlet on eBay. How did Whitman help them? By raising listing fees and forcing them to use eBay’s PayPal, increasing her company’s cut of their sales. She also overpaid for acquisitions, including $2.6 billion on Skype, a voice-over-Internet startup which had little to do with the rest of eBay’s business.
Her career as eBay’s CEO, in other words, looks like that of a tax-and-spend liberal. A spokesman for Whitman characterized her as “retired and bored” just a few months ago. Any bets on how long before this quixotic attempt at politics, fueled by her $1.4 billion eBay fortune, ends with her being retired and bored once more?
You know she’s doing it for more power.
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