Or at least, according to George Will here, will voters vote for the former CEO of eBay?
Meg Whitman, 52, the former CEO of eBay is campaigning for the 2010 Republican gubernatorial nomination….
The state cannot pay its bills, poorly educates its young, and
its taxation punishes whatever success that its suffocating regulatory
regime does not prevent.She endorses a convention to revise California’s Constitution, which
was written in 1879 and has been amended 518 times. She would reduce
the number of state Assembly districts (there are 80) because the
Legislature is cumbersome, and would modify the initiative and
referendum process.Whitman favors making it harder — requiring more signatures — to
get measures on ballots, limiting the number on ballots in particular
elections, and requiring the ballot language to specify the costs of
measures being voted on.She emphatically opposes a change that many proponents of a
new Constitution favor — eliminating the requirement of a two-thirds
vote of both houses of the Legislature to pass a budget or raise taxes.
Without those provisions, “taxes would be so high we might not have a
state left.” Today’s most pressing problem — government in the grip of
public employees unions — is, she thinks, ripe for improvement: 85
percent of the state’s unionized employees are working without
contracts.
