Rich corporate elitist helping out rich corporate elitists is my guess.
That's a likely scenario, but when I am willing to give old Meg the benifit of the doubt, I go with ego, pure and simple. That and a belief in conservative fiscal ideology.
She thinks California is broken and she can fix it. As CEO she grew a small company into a very big one, and she believes that she can transfer that experience in leadership to lead the state into recovery. She believes her own hype. She believes in trickle down, she believes that letting the rich keep their money is good for the not-so-rich, that it creates jobs and growth in the economy (which is what really creates jobs). She believes she is the answer.
I believe she is mistaken. I am sure she did a fine job with EBay, but it's not like she took, say, the SF Chronicle and turned it into a growing enterprise. Her problems at EBay were to manage the growth of a company that had nothing but growth potential. Califorinias problems are complex, and it isn't going to be so simple to find a way to grow the economy. Basically, I believe she will be in over her head, and her ego will keep her from seeking help.
Not that Jerry is going to fix the economy, either...
I like that reasoning. Ebay was such an amazing idea back in the early days of internetting -- it wasn't her idea, per se, but she did well not to blow it, growing it. Still, she spoke in too many talking points in the debate I heard (before the housekeeper news broke). Jerry at least knows how to smooth out his style so his talking points sound a little more sincere.
About public employee unions, Meg will certainly play tough and say "no" to them more than Brown would, and that seems like a good stance to have, but I'm not sure she can just waltz in and solve it all by herself. the legislature would have to buy-in from what I understand.
(Did you know that in SF until recently, you needed only 5 years of service before you were vested for life in their city employee health care plan? that has been changed, but holy jeez, that's a little much.. unless of course you are covered by it... yes, I know that's a SF thing, not California, but state unions need some reigning in, too.)
despite her tough gal posturing on unions, I won't be voting for her. She's smug and out of touch.
