Former Silicon Valley empresses Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina won the Republican nominations for California's Governor and one of its Senate seats overnight. Whitman, ex-chief executive of eBay, will bid to succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger, while ex-HP boss Fiorina will go head-to-head with incumbent Democrat Senator Barbara …

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Wednesday 9th June 2010 09:23 GMT Asiren

It just goes to show...

When former CEOs are willing to sink THAT much money into getting "elected", it's not really a job "of the People, for the People", is it...

As if more proof was needed that politicians are corrupt...

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Wednesday 9th June 2010 10:06 GMT Anonymous Coward

Carly Fiorina

..needs more opportunties to wreak haovc. I wonder why she is allowed to do that in Calfornia, where most of HP/Agilent is located.

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Wednesday 9th June 2010 13:07 GMT Anonymous Coward

If I had to choose between Boxer and Fiorina...

I'd end up writing in Paris instead.

At least she doesn't pretend to be intelligent.

Next up for California:

Purchasing 1 jet for every day of the year for a certain Ms. Fiorina.

As far as the gubernatorial race goes, trust me, they can do a whole lot worse than who they have now, or even this eBay person.

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Thursday 10th June 2010 08:32 GMT Anonymous Coward

Campbell not republican right nor tea party

Campbell is a middle-of-the-road/moderate republican. The republican right voted for the other guy, DeVore.

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Thursday 10th June 2010 09:05 GMT Anonymous Coward

Governor?!?

It wasn't like this in my flash forward!

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Thursday 10th June 2010 09:05 GMT Christopher Blackmore

Tat?

Some of us sell high quality things on eBay. Stop calling it "tat", you lazy HACK.

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1. Thursday 10th June 2010 09:05 GMT Chris Williams
  
  Re: Tat?
  
  "Stop calling it "tat", you lazy HACK."
  
  No.
  
  Best,
  
  - Chris
  
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