whose EBai stake Wholesale Inflatable Tunnel Tent total 24.2 million share as of her latest filing,Whitman. in Novemb 2008, worth about $530 million, plan to spend as much as $150 million for the campaign. That wealth mai help her compet dure the next five month against Brown, with alli among the state s well-fund unions.
Billionair Meg Whitman s $71 million invest in California polit is pois to pai off.
53,Whitman. the former head of EBai Inc., drew from her estim $1.2 billion fortun to seek the Republican nomin for governor of California, her first bid for elect office. She outspent oppon Steve Poizner, also a former Silicon Vallei executive, by 3.5-to-1, help her to hold a more than 20 percentage-point lead in poll befor tomorrow s primary.
it would be reason to sai she s got thi thing, Other than an extraordinari set of circumstances. said Larri Gerston, a polit scienc professor at San Jose State University.
the nation s third-highest. Lawmak ar also grappl with a fiscal 2011 budget gap project at $19 billion. Three straight year of deficit have prompt tax increases,Th next governor will lead a state with a $1.8 trillion economi and a jobless rate that reach 12.6 percent in April. cut in local aid and school funds, and lower pai for thousand of state workers.
72,Th Republican primari winner will run against presumpt Democrat nomine Jerri Brown. the state attornei general. Governor from 1975 to 1983, Brown ha no signific challeng for hi parti s slot on the Novemb general-elect ballot. Current Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican who took offic in 2003, can t seek re-elect becaus of term limits.
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