Whitman, Meg

<p>Mike Murphy, Steve Schmidt, or Nicolle Wallace, ex McCain, from gw news, with ad for frmale anatomy made simple; <span id="default"><span id="CCT_Article">Sarah Pompei, spokeswoman for the Whitman campaign</span></span></p>

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sons asault, n-word, biggest living princeton donor</p>

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150:1 vs brown</p>

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Whitman thus far has spent $64.3 million on TV, radio and Web ads. She has spent $9.7 million on campaign consultants. Her chief strategist, Mike Murphy, has received $861,474.

Of the $26.3 million raised by the Whitman campaign during the filing period, $20 million came from Whitman herself. The eBay billionaire has now contributed $91 million out of her own pocket.</p>

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So it's curious that <a href="http://celebrifi.com/Politicians/Meg-Whitman">Whitman</a>'s <a href="http://celebrifi.com/Tags/Financial-Disclosure">Financial Disclosure</a> report for 2009 recorded an investment of more than $1 million in Tools Down!, a film <a href="http://celebrifi.com/Topics/Production-Company">Production Company</a> Murphy founded.</p>

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-bradley/the-machinations-of-meg-w_b_650116.html?page=2&show_comment_id=54064608#comment_54064608</p>

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quibles?  arnold too, dennis miller tv </p>

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Goldman sachs</p>

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<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=61144">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=61144</a>

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<h3 id="page-title">Whitman's fortune entwined with Goldman Sachs</h3>

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<p>Candidate Meg Whitman touts her experience at eBay, the online auction house that made her rich, but her career and personal fortune are entwined with another company: the Goldman Sachs investment bank, a major player in public finance in the state she wants to lead. 

Whitman’s relationship with the giant Wall Street firm — as investor, corporate director and recipient of both insider stock deals and campaign donations — could pose conflicts of interest if the Republican front-runner is elected governor of California, critics say. 

From 1998 to 2002, while she was CEO of eBay, Whitman helped steer millions of dollars of her company’s investment banking business to Goldman, court records show.

<img src="/bec90761-4768-5234-b8e7-67b2a4e1d965.jpg"/><span class="image-insert-description">Meg Whitman</span>

In 2001, Goldman put Whitman on its corporate board, paying her an estimated $475,000 for little more than a year of part-time service. The company also gave her insider access to the initial public offerings of hot stocks worth millions, according to the records. 

Whitman left the board in 2002 after she was targeted in a congressional probe of bond underwriters and “spinning”  — a financial maneuver, now banned, in which Goldman and other firms allegedly traded access to hot IPOs for bond business. Whitman later settled a shareholder lawsuit related to profits she and other execs made from buying the IPOs. 

In recent years, Whitman has kept part of her fortune, estimated by Forbes magazine to be $1.2 billion, in investment funds managed by Goldman, her financial disclosure report indicates. For her campaign, she’s received $105,500 in donations from Goldman executives, state records show. 

Meanwhile, Goldman is a major player in California state finance. It has been the underwriter of $78.9 billion in bonds issued by the state since 2006, records show, second only to Merrill Lynch, now a division of Bank of America, which was underwriter of $79.3 billion in the same period.  

Goldman was underwriter of more than 2 percent of the bonds issued by the state in the past five years, the records show. State pension funds, meanwhile, have invested more than $1.3 billion with Goldman. 

The firm has sought other state business as well. In 2007, Goldman and the now-defunct Lehman Brothers investment bank pitched Gov. Schwarzenegger on an ambitious plan to boost state revenues by privatizing the California Lottery, according to news reports.  

Goldman also urged the governor to raise money by selling EdFund, the state agency that insures student loans. Schwarzenegger expressed interest, but the ideas weren’t carried out.

<strong>Conflicts could arise</strong>

With Goldman active on so many state issues, Whitman would face “a pile of potential conflicts of interest”  if elected governor, said Doug Heller, spokesman for Consumer Watchdog of Santa Monica.  

Whitman declined to be interviewed for this story, but her campaign lawyer said conflict concerns were overblown. If elected, Whitman will sell her Goldman stock and put the rest of her portfolio, including her Goldman-managed investments, into a blind trust, the lawyer, Tom Hiltachk said in a written statement.  </p>

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