Outgoing eBay CEO Meg Whitman has signed on to co-chair the campaign of presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain.
Outgoing eBay CEO Meg Whitman has wasted little time figuring out what she might do after eBay: she’ll be working as co-chair of John McCain’s U.S. presidential campaign. McCain is the presumptive nominee of the Republican party, having won enough delegates during primary elections to secure his party’s nomination.
“I’m honored that Senator McCain has asked me to become a part of his campaign,” Whitman said in a statement. “America needs John McCain’s courageous leadership. His unshakable commitment to lower taxes, strong trade, and innovation sets the right course for America’s economy and future prosperity.”
Whitman previously backed Republican candidate Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, who withdrew from the presidential race on February 7.
According to the McCain campaign, Whitman will act as a “powerful surrogate” for McCain himself, traveling throughout the United States on his behalf and working with the campaign on financing and policy development. Political insiders are, of course, already speculating that if McCain should be elected president, Whitman might be a logical choice for a high-profile Washington post or even a cabinet position.
Whitman joined ebay in 1998 and turned what was then a 30-person startup company into a Fortune 500-listed ecommerce giant with more than $8 billion in revenue. Last January, Whitman announced she would retire as CEO on March 31 to spend more time on politics and philanthropy.
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RSSFor those who may not remember or know, Fiorina was the C.E.O. of Hewlett Packard until 2005 when she was fired. Her most famous quote; No American has a God given right to a Job just because they were American. She fired tens of thousands of employees to then outsource jobs overseas. She managed to skip out of Lucent right before the Feds arrived and started the HP Boardroom investigation which connected to the scandal and the hostile culture she created at HP.
Whitman is currently embroiled in a boycott from the buyers and sellers who made eBay (a.k.a. greebay, feepay) successful. Seems like they want to have a cleansing of their members. The boycott calls for no buying or selling and the evacuating from eBay by May 1, 2008. The most recent faux pax is the conflicting story given for what many called ‘mystery auction listings’ mysteriously from the Shopping dot com site (sdc). Explanations started as a glitch in the system, changed to limited test that ran its course, changed to accident and back to a test. The SEC should love this investigation. Keep in mind, eBay’s stocks have been steadily sagging and Wall Street measures eBay based on listings. Can’t forget the current Paypal lawsuit; eBay has tied PayPal to be the only means one can buy/sell on eBay which violates the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
Fiorina and Whitman’s involvement with the Senator will surely guarantee a Democratic victory but then again both want to be the Governor of California so their motives are, usual for them, self serving.