Attention Voters: Meg Whitman’s Time Is More Valuable Than Yours
Meg Whitman is a nonvoter. She is, therefore, an awful person and should not be allowed to serve as governor.
Meg Whitman owes the voters of California more than an apology.
The successful former CEO of eBay is a Republican candidate for governor in 2010. She is running as someone who will bring the skills of the boardroom to the serious economic problems afflicting her adopted home state. Because of her success in the business world and the personal fortune she’s prepared to invest in the race, she is one of the leading candidates to succeed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R).
But the formal launch of her candidacy last week was disrupted by a damaging report in the Sacramento Bee. Though Whitman seeks to lead one of the biggest and most troubled governments in the world, when it comes to politics, she has been — to put it kindly — an absentee citizen for much of her adult life.
Here’s my humble suggestion for what Meg Whitman should say to California.
I am sorry, voters of California, for spending a decade managing one of the most successful and socially beneficial corporations in recent memory. In my zeal to deliver profits to shareholders and quality service to customers, I forgot that most people believe voting to be more important than delivering value to society. If I am fortunate enough to become governor, I pledge to spend an hour or more each election day waiting in line for the miniscule chance of having my vote affect an electoral outcome. I will do this without regard to the important work I could be doing with that time.
She’d have my vote. I mean, unless I had something better to do that day.
