Former heads of HP and eBay win California primaries

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 …

[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...

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Anonymous Coward]

Governor?!?

It wasn't like this in my flash forward!

[Christopher Blackmore]

Tat?

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

[Chris Williams]

Re: Tat?

"Stop calling it "tat", you lazy HACK."

No.

Best,

- Chris