Today GOP Gubernatorial aspirant Meg Whitman gave the first of three major speeches she intends to make this week. With all of the politics taking place in Sacramento right now, I don’t really have much time to cover and analyze her remarks — right now. We’ll be able to pivot back to 2010 politics soon enough (Whitman conducted a couple of interviews with newspapers that are certainly worthy of commentary).
Whitman spoke today in the Silicon Valley (which she would know well) at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose. I have attached below a link to her speech. If you’re following this primary, you should read it — as it is Whitman’s first major address as a candidate.
Ironically, I was last at the Tech Museum a couple of years back, to attend the swearing-in ceremony of newly elected Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner. How poetic.
(*Note, that is a stock photo of Whitman, not a photo from her speech today.)
February 17th, 2009 at 12:00 am
This is fascinating stuff, complete with the underlines in the speech text (which one of her 23 consultants suggested that?).
Perhaps if Ms. Whitman doesn’t believe additional revenue is necessary, she wouldn’t have raised the fees for selling on eBay at least seven times over the course of her tenure there.
Sorry, you can’t hit the “buy it now” button for the Governorship, Christie. Eventually what you are saying will have to add up.
Time for a higher bid to compete against Poizner.
February 17th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Raising fees can be legitimately used to raise revenue, Mr. Maviglio, when trading an increasingly better product for an increasingly higher price. Raising taxes in California goes “against market conditions” at this time. The time to raise taxes (if there really is such a time) is when you are delivering a solid product and can afford to to lose customer base to your competitors (Arizona et al) who are unlikely to raise their prices to match. Obviously, Mr. Maviglio, you have never ran a business or if you have, you ran it into the ground. Just as Democrats are running this state into the ground.
February 17th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Who’s Christie?
February 17th, 2009 at 12:00 am
eBay was the same product, not a better one, when its fees were raised. Some might even suggest it’s not as good as it was. Like the state, it had increased operating expenses, so it raised its fees. You can’t expect government to do anything different than the private sector does.
Also, please review the PPIC’s report on whether California is losing business to other states. It ain’t so.
http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=640
February 17th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Mags is trying to equate raising prices on your product to raising taxes?
No doubt, Mags is a California public school product.
Maybe next time he can give us the Spanish translation as well.