Monday, April 5, 2010

The condition of our democracy

stories like this should disturb all of us, not because it happens to be one party or the other, but because the process is becoming so much "for sale" --

Whitman leads California governor's race: poll



LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Billionaire Republican Meg Whitman has pulled ahead in the California governor's race after contributing a record-breaking $39 million to her own campaign, a Los Angeles Times/USC poll showed on Monday.

2 comments:

Irene said...

She didn't even need a corporate sponsor!

Bud said...

Well, Irene could be right! But I doubt if she has no corporate obligations.