LA Times - Whitman's $140M could have saved mental health services for 20,000 special ed students

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Steve Lopez: More worthwhile causes for Meg Whitman's $140 million
October 26, 2010 | 7:33 am

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/10/steve-lopez-more-worthwhile-causes-for-meg-whitmans-140-million.html

Based on the latest polls, in which Whitman is dropping further away from Democrat Jerry Brown despite the huge investment of her own money in campaign staff and advertising, I’d argue that she might be doing better if she’d spent the $140 million on pizza.

Then again, since job creation is one of Whitman’s key promises, you have to wonder if she would have been better off handing out 140 $1 million grants to small businesses. In fact, it might have been smart to do that this year, establish some good will and a record of economic development, and then run for governor in four years.

Or she could have saved a state program that provides mental health services for 20,000 special education students -- a $132-million program that was one of the casualties in the latest budget cuts.

I’m wondering if you have your own suggestions on how, win or lose, Whitman might have put that $140 million to better use.

[CountAllVotes]

1. what a waste of money

just shows how stupid Whitless is! :dunce: :dunce: :grr: :argh:

:kick: & recommend!!

[EFerrari]

2. This woman should be nowhere near public office. n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. She is SO self-centered that she couldn't think of anything.

Other than spending it on her campaign, of course.

I cannot fucking wait to see her go down in flames!

Recommended.

[aquart]

4. If only she'd been sufficiently taxed.

But she wasn't. If we do not tax these obscene fortunes out of existence, they will destroy us with them.

[pnwmom]

5. If she'd spend this much trying to be Governor, imagine

how much she'd have spent trying to be President in 4 years.

We might have dodged a bullet . . . or maybe not. Maybe this will free her up to run for President in 2012!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. I cannot realistically see her running for president anytime.

Her hubris, her sense of entitlement, is huge, but not that huge, I hope.

She hasn't held any elective office. That would be a very serious barrier...