Capitol Alert: Team Poizner puts on another bash for Meg

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June 25, 2009

Team Poizner puts on another bash for Meg

Don't these people know that the primary is almost a year away?

Former Republican Senate leader Jim Brulte, gubernatorial campaign chairman for Steve Poizner, was so inspired by yesterday's Capitol Alert joust with Meg Whitman spokesman Mitch Zak that he fired off a second letter arguing why his Silicon Valley billionaire is way better than theirs.

Brulte pointed to a Rasmussen Survey that said voters most definitely prefer entrepreneurs such as Poizner, founder of a wireless technology firm, over the ilk of corporate CEOs such as Whitman, the former head of eBay.

"Sure enough, while people who start their own businesses (like Steve Poizner) have a +85 favorable rating, corporate CEO's (like Meg Whitman) have a -43 rating," Brulte writes, inserting his own parentheses.

Zak had a ready answer in a phoner: "If you look at eBay and the company that Meg grew from 30 employees to 15,000, Meg made a career of helping people start businesses."

Might as well figure this is going to be a loooong campaign. Eleven months and 14 days to go, and the well-oiled campaigns for the two business titans have barely tapped into their reservoirs of sound-bites -- or their deep pockets of dough.

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