Last Tuesday, on a Southwest flight to San Jose, I literally ran into my friend John Clarey, a successful businessman from Orange County.. The irony is that John and I work about 30 feet from one another in Newport Beach, in the same office suite.
John is a huge supporter of Meg Whitman’s campaign for Governor, and so it wasn’t a surprise when he told me he was on his way to a Meg Whitman "Call Day" — this is when supporters gather and make fundraising calls from one location, with the candidate on hand to jump on the line. As always, John tried to get me to go along — but he knows as an officer of the state GOP, I have to stay out of contested Republican primaries.
"Call days" were a favorite fundraising technique of Mitt Romney during his Presidential run — so it’s no surprise that Whitman, who was a key player in Romney’s campaign for President (while he lost the nomination, Romney raised a vast amount of money).
Anyways, turns out that Whitman’s "Call Day" event drew 150 political and finance leaders in her campaign — VIP’s ranging from former Governor Pete Wilson (and his wife, Gayle) to Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy, and many others.
Curious how call day turned out? FR was given an exclusive opportunity to preview for our readers a short video taken of that day (Team Whitman will "officially" release the video on Tuesday). As you know, we here at the FR simply cannot resist exclusives!
Check out the video below. Congrats to the starring role of FR friend (and fellow GenNexter) Paul Makarechian!
(A special TY to Max for uploading this for me!)
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