# Meg Whitman is a whore? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 8, 2010, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-whitman-is-a-whore/556475 "2010-10-08T12:39:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-whitman-is-a-whore/556475/21 "2010-10-08T20:36:04Z")
CA politics is dominated by unions. Collectively, public safety unions are a dominant force in the legislature. When they extort hundreds of millions in unfunded retiree benefits, it constrains the state’s ability to get solvent. Another way to frame it. In CA, the strongest unions are the public employee unions. Teachers, police, prison guards. These people are all paid with taxpayer dollars. Their unions are funded by their dues. There is no way to opt out of these dues. So effectively tax dollars support the unions, which in turn lobby the legislature to increase funding to - themselves through higher wages, pensions, benefits, etc which are paid for with more taxes. It’s kinda like having the government lobbying itself. I’d rather the politicians be in the pocket of their constituents. ---
**Author:** ![pinkyvee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6de8d8/32.png) [@pinkyvee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkyvee)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-whitman-is-a-whore/556475/22 "2010-10-10T16:41:22Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > CA politics is dominated by unions. Very accurate. Gloria Allred’s client, the housekeeper, and some person in Jerry’s office referencing “whore” are NON issues. ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Vining](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c67d28/32.png) [@Lee\_Vining](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lee_Vining)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-whitman-is-a-whore/556475/23 "2010-10-11T12:07:30Z")
I don’t care if she works at Sherries Cherrie Patch Ranch as long as she gets the budget under control, and leaves my rights alone. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-whitman-is-a-whore/556475/24 "2010-10-11T21:30:41Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > It’ll dominate the news cycle for a day or two. If Brown’s numbers dip in the short term, it’ll live on, but otherwise probably not. > > > [@Voyager](#): > > > > …not that she had hired an illegal, and not that she was too stupid to check… > > Nitpick: She checked, and the housekeeper gave her a false SSN. No, she assumed the agency she hired her from checked. And when the letter from Social Security came saying the names didn’t match, the husband gave it to the maid to take care of. “Mr. tax guy, I just got a letter from the IRS saying that praying to Jesus and claiming Ohio is not officially a state don’t let me avoid paying taxes. Could you check this out for me, please?” However the real kicker was Meg telling her to become an unperson. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-whitman-is-a-whore/556475/25 "2010-10-11T21:36:47Z")
> [@Lee\_Vining](#): > > I don’t care if she works at Sherries Cherrie Patch Ranch as long as she gets the budget under control, and leaves my rights alone. Well, if by rights you mean the right to not be offended by gay people marrying, you are okay there. As for budget, forget it. the Democratic majority is not going to work with her. The Republican minority owes her nothing. She knows nothing about Sacramento, nothing about where the bodies are buried, nothing about how to manipulate the levers of power. On the other hand, I’ve heard that some people say the best approach is to have a moderate Republican governor who is an outsider. After all, things have gone just great with Arnold in office. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-whitman-is-a-whore/556475/26 "2010-10-11T22:15:04Z")
Pretty much all Republican women are whores, or at least supplicants. There’s really no other way a woman can agree with those people without extreme religious or social coercion, unless, of course, their fiscal conservatism overrides every single shred of their humanity. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-whitman-is-a-whore/556475/27 "2010-10-12T01:46:07Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > [Jerry Brown associate: Call Meg Whitman ‘whore’](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43315.html) > > > [@](#): > > > > Brown campaign spokesman Clifford Sterling confirmed the authenticity of the call, which Whitman’s camp has begun to seize on to attack Brown. > > [Whitman’s spending $450,000 of her own money a day](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g4fA0CkYIRO41pihcL59lBosV8WQD9ILVC980?docId=D9ILVC980) to buy the governorship. She’s still trailing, and the best she can do is cling to a one-off private remark by someone who is not Brown? Things are not looking good for the gal who treats the governor’s job like a whore. Whores **make** money. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-whitman-is-a-whore/556475/28 "2010-10-12T04:32:15Z")
> [@Lee\_Vining](#): > > I don’t care if she works at Sherries Cherrie Patch Ranch as long as she gets the budget under control, and leaves my rights alone. She won’t. He won’t either, of course. Get the budget under control, that is. Can’t be done; not in a recession in California. And sometimes I think not even during a boom. But this is because California voters are idiots. I don’t think either one of them has any interest in going after your rights, FWIW. Still, all other things being equal (and they pretty much are), no Republican should ever be elected to anything ever again. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-whitman-is-a-whore/556475/29 "2010-11-27T17:37:36Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > He isn’t really considered a nut anymore, at least not in California. Am I the first person to notice this…or the last? Best wishes, hh [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-whitman-is-a-whore/556475.md?page=1)