Yesterday the Meg Whitman for Governor campaign announced their new Students for Meg organization.  The head of this new group is Chason Bullock, who is a senior at California State University, San Marcos.   What follows is a column by Chason, and below that a web video created by the Whitman campaign highlighting many student leaders supporting her candidacy…

Why Students Support Meg
Chason Bullock

Students are rallying to elect Meg Whitman to be the next Governor of California. They share Meg’s focus on three important priorities: creating jobs, cutting spending and fixing education. California has seen better days: we have a 12.5% unemployment rate, a $20 billion deficit and a broken K-12 education system. Let’s not forget the issues involving our state’s higher education systems as well. Ask any student who is about to graduate what their primary concern is and they will likely tell you it’s employment opportunities.

The most important element of Meg’s platform is job creation. She was the first gubernatorial candidate to come out with a strong message for creating jobs and she’s set an ambitious, but attainable goal: two million new private sector jobs by 2015. Job creation is the issue of our generation, and Meg understands we must create a climate where companies want to come and stay in California.

Meg Whitman also understands our generation and how much we rely on technology. At eBay, Meg built a business model that allowed inspired individuals working with technology to build their own businesses. Nearly every college student in the nation has used eBay at least once in their lifetime, so they appreciate what Meg can do.

Meg Whitman continues to rely on the effective employment of technology in her campaign – building a powerful online presence that reaches of young voters across the state. She’s connecting with voters by tweeting, facebooking, texting, filming videos and encouraging Californians to share their ideas for our state. Meg believes in the Power of Many and our collective ability to tackle the enormous challenges facing California. Using technology, young voters will continue to be on the frontlines of this effort.

Meg’s determination to build A New California is something that resonates with every college student. California’s over-regulated and highly taxed business environment has effectively destroyed the entrepreneurial dream that so many before us were able to achieve. We need a Governor who isn’t afraid to address our biggest problems and stands up to the status quo in Sacramento.

Meg Whitman offers an approach that Sacramento has never seen. She is focusing on three things at 100% – creating jobs, cutting spending, and fixing education. If we can get these things right, California can once again become the Golden State.

Our commitment to getting Meg elected is reflected in Students for Meg, our ever growing grassroots organization. With 40 chapters and more than 1,000 members throughout the state, more and more students are joining the fight to help elect Meg. It’s going to take all of us to rebuild California, and I encourage you to join us.

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.