There seems to be some evidence of class envy and class warfare inside of the Republican Party – and evidence that the DNA has taken hold within some conservatives.

Each day that I discuss Meg Whitman spending $19 million on her gubernatorial campaign in 2009, and mention that she has anted up another $20 million for the primaries stretch run, callers to my talk show come unhinged. The immediate complaint is that “Meg is trying to buy the election by spending so much money early and often” to outpace her opponents in the race and take our vote away from us.

I heard from a self proclaimed Tea Party conservative caller this week, “I am fearful that Meg will spend my money (tax dollars) as she is spending her money when she gets in office. Eric, she is used to being rich and money means nothing to her she waste it faster than Arnold has.” Are you serious?

Folks, this is nothing more than financial jealously, money envy and the usual rhetoric we get from the left that is embedded in their class warfare. Now we have Republicans and Tea Party conservatives repeating the same indoctrinated talking points.

Now calm down and slowly back away from the cliff before someone gets hurt here!

People, I don’t care that Meg is super rich, why do you? I don’t care that she is willing to spend $100 million to be the next governor of California. It’s her money; she has earned it legally and economically, what should I care?

That Meg Whitman is a billionaire and she wants to part with 5 to 8 percent of her held assets in earnings is not a concern for me as a voter. We are acting like her money is our money – it not people. We are sounding like the majority party in Sacramento and currently in Washington DC.

Meg Whitman made millions off of a business that provided you (the private sector) a means to make hundreds and even thousands while you stayed at home, raised your children or created a side job for additional revenue in the face of a dying economy in California.

Yes, there were increases fees and service charges – wake-up, eBay is a business not a government social program or a charity. This is why Meg is rich; she successfully made eBay a multi-million company annually. And this is why Meg Whitman has the resume props to be considered for the top executive office of the state.

Would I pay $100 million for the gig? No way.

Please …  if you don’t Meg, that’s fine. But in the process do us all a favor (and the party’s ideology a favor) step off of the party’s intelligence air-hose, breathe the clean air is individualism, liberty and a free market. Stop it with the class envy and class warfare; you’re beginning to sound like liberal Democrats.

Carly Fiornia’s biggest problem rests with her HP past.

The more I meet HP employees (and former employees), the more I am beginning to grow concerned about Fiorina’s chance to win the GOP’s US Senate primary in June. There is a large segment of what I call “HP angst” aligned against Carly Fiorina’s past CEO tutelage.

Just last week I spoke with a current (another in a growing list) HP insider who recited numerous reasons why Carly will not be supported by a majority HP employee-voters, nor would she gain large sums of campaign contributions from HP Executives – and those they run with in the executive world.

People talk, business people talk even more - and they talk numbers, money and futures. Carly Fiorina has a problem with her ‘political futures’. Her decisions while at the helm of HP were very unpopular. Many employees call describe them as being self-centered, Carly propaganda and nothing more than executive narcissism. Forget about the down-sizing, offshore shoveling of jobs and the drop of the companies stocks price and companywide morale.

Carly is seen by HP workers (past and present) as an individual who (was) is concerned for only herself and nothing more. And in the corporate world that kind of talk travels fast, especially when the next US Senator will be handling legislation in DC that has major impact upon large corporations’ futures in California.

True, this could be nothing more than class envy and remnants of executive creep syndrome. But for Fiorina, she needs to gain their trust and she has to do “something” to turn this image around, and fast.

I am just saying that’s all.

Steve Poizner has accomplished one thing with his Monday Morning Massacre; he has at least recruited one new supporter.

From today’s LA Times piece:

State Democrat Party Chairman John Burton released a statement Tuesday adding a proverbial “amen” to Steve Poizner’s charges. “This extortion attempt is only the latest display of arrogance and lack of character on candidate Whitman’s part,” Burton said. “This is clearly someone who is used to having things her own way and has come to rely on her vast wealth to buy off any and all opposition.”

“Whitman’s attempt to buy off her main rival ultimately shows a weakness in her campaign. If she’s up by 30 points, and has billions of dollars at her disposal to outspend her chief rival, what is she afraid of?”

Congratulations to Steve Poizner, not only has he been successful at bringing  Attorney General Jerry Brown into the GOP Primary (the eventual Democrat nominee), he has also brought the statewide Democrat Party Spokesperson with along with Brown.

If this isn’t a tell-tale sign that Steve Poizner’s presser was a huge miscalculation nothing is.

Notice that the early leverage on Meg Whitman is to cry “She’s a rich girl”. This isn’t a Hall and Oates concert. Yes, Meg is rich – by her own merit. What we are going to read, see and hear through this campaign is class warfare; first from Steve Poizner, and then Jerry Brown and the unionized Democrat Party will take the hand-off after the primary and continue to beat the drum.  

Prediction: I don’t believe Steve Poizner will file his final paperwork in March. Just a suspicion here, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see Poizner withdrawal the $15 million he deposited in December and close down his operation. This gubernatorial race is too rich for his blood, and a mega-million primary battle would be too costly for his political future 

The Maldonado confirmation features more strategy than content.

Republican State Senator Abel Maldonado has been nominated to replace (now) Congressman John Garamendi (former Lt. Governor) as California’s Lt. Governor until there is a new term holder elected in November of this year.

The state Senate Rules Committee holds a first hearing today to decide whether the Democratic-majority Legislature  will let a Republican take over as lieutenant governor.

Why? Because there is much more strategy risk for the confirmation, than actual content. The first consideration is the sticky temptation of an open state senate seat in a very moderate district.

From the Sacramento Bee today:

Some Democrats are lobbying enthusiastically for Maldonado to be confirmed because it will remove him from a seat they covet. If Maldonado were gone, they say, a Democrat would have a shot at replacing him.

Maldonado’s Senate District 15, which runs from Santa Maria to the San Jose suburbs, tips Democratic, with 40.9 percent registered as Democrats and 34.8 percent registered as Republicans as of last May, according to the secretary of state’s office. Another 19.6 percent are “decline-to-state.”

A Democratic win in Abel’s coastal district would nudge the party to one seat shy of two-thirds control over the state Senate. A two-thirds vote is needed to pass a budget or a tax proposal. “The lieutenant governor’s office is a low priority compared to the two-thirds majority,” said Robert Cruickshank, Monterey County Democratic Party vice chairman.

But not everyone is confident that Maldonado’s former seat would fall to the Democrats.

There is also the State Senate’s Pro-Tem Darrell Steinberg’s dilemma. In Maldonado you have a Republican who played with the majority Democrats on tax and fee increases in solving the 2009 state budget. Going forward, it sure will be hard for Pro-Tem Steinberg and Speaker Perez to grab (entice) Republican votes for tax increases from across the aisle if the turncoat GOP’ers see no fulfillment to the promises that Democrat leaders offer in exchange.

For casting a party violation (head on stick, suicidal) vote for the tax increases, Abel Maldonado was promised numerous personal and district favors; one being a nomination and support for confirmation as the next Lt. Governor (and the Open Primary on the ballot).

For Sacramento’s Steinberg, he is between a rock and a hard place. One of his close party allies, Democrat Senator Dean Florez, is also running for Lt. Governor. If Steinberg helps to seat Madonaldo for a short period of time before the November election, he effectually gives Maldonado an advantage over the eventual Democrat nominee come November.

Then there is a third point of strategy to consider; the Latino vote of California.

More and more Democrats are beginning to compare the Maldonado nomination process to the country’s recent Justice Sonya Sotomayor nomination and confirmation process to the US Supreme Court last year. The goal: Paint the Republican further into the corner as anti-Latino, anti-immigration and racist.

If Maldonado gets his confirmation and he runs as a Republican in the primary, there is a GREAT chance that he will be beaten badly by very conservative Republican State Senator Sam Aanestad.

This would afford the Democrats a campaign talking-point as they head toward November; “See, we reached across the aisle and placed a well deserving Latino leader in a statewide office and what do the Republicans do, they remove him as fast as they can with yet another old, white, staunchly conservative.”

For the intelligent reader visiting HOGUE NEWS this is nothing more than pabulum. For the novice, it is what it is.

For the fastest growing constituency in California (Latinos and Independents, DTS) this would become more evidence that the GOP is out-of-touch and nothing more than a white man’s club. Saying nothing of content (or truth), it is strategy that reinforces what many already believe to be true.

Again, I am just saying that’s all.