Even as former eBay CEO Meg Whitman acted as a high-profile backer and adviser to 2008 GOP presidential candidate John McCain, her top aide Henry Gomez — now an eMeg gubernatorial campaign majordomo — donated the maximum to Democrat Barack Obama, federal records show.
Gomez, a trusted top insider in Republican Whitman’s 2010 gubernatorial campaign, donated the maximum $2,300 allowed to the general election campaign of Obama in the days before — and the weeks following — the former eBay CEO’s high profile televised address to the GOP National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he accompanied Whitman around the clock.
Gomez is a registered Democratic voter in New Jersey, according to records of the Bergen County Registrar’s office.
And we wonder why we keep losing elections.
Personally, I’m not sold on the idea that the only kind of Republican California can elect is one who is nothing more than a mistakenly-registered Democrat. Like Meg Whitman.
She loves Van Jones. One of her top guys is a Dem who was on the sinking McCain ship. She didn’t vote for a zillion years because, you know, busy and stuff.
If she makes it through to the general election as the party’s standard-bearer the California GOP might as well change its symbol to a shovel because it just keeps digging deeper graves for itself with candidates like this.
