Meg Whitman - former CEO of eBay - has campaign budget soar to nearly nine digits

Thank God for all of those Beanie Babies. Meg Whitman, an aspiring Governor of California and former billionaire CEO of online auctions company eBay has set a new personal record for campaign spending.

Reports are now in that put Whitman's total campaign budget thus far at almost $100 million.

The Whitman campaign reported on Monday that $20 million had been spent within just six weeks ending June 30. Her campaign is said to have spent $71 million to win the GOP primary against Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner.

According to a number of reputable sources, Whitman has put around $91 million of her own money into the campaign and continues to seek further donations from wealthy individuals from across the country.

She is, however, set to face some formidable competition on this front from her Democratic challenger Jerry Brown. Brown has received almost $14,000 from Dreamworks Animation alone - a company where Whitman once served as a board member.

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Will Meg Whitman be like this with the budget of California?

Meg Whitman, the former CEO of internet auctions company eBay, and a wannabe governor of California has had questions raised, primarily over her explosive temper and lack of fiscal control.

With so much money being spent on Whitman's campaign (she recently injected $20 million more into her campaign), one is lead to ask: "will she be this reckless with the budget of the state that she's bidding to run.

Many have speculated that this is merely a step to her lifelong ambition of becoming President, and that it would merely be useful to have been the governor of a large state beforehand.

Whatever the motivation is, she sure is throwing a lot of money at it.

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Sarah Palin denies that she has had implants, has a go at Newsweek magazine

Sarah Palin, everybody's favorite former Republican vice-presidential candidate, appeared on Fox News both to take a stab at Newsweek magazine over a cover depicting her with a halo around her head with the headline "Saint Sarah".

In addition to this, the Alaskan governor denied rumors (dubbed 'Boobgate') that she had undergone breast enhancements - after Fox News' Greta Van Susteren popped the question to her.

Looking to set the records straight, Palin remarked that she had never had implants, adding "I can't believe, yes[sic], that we're even talking about this" 


Palin didn't stop at the rumors about her breasts, however, also having a go at Newsweek, saying that it is because of covers like the one depicting her as a saint (clearly she didn't realise it was sarcasm) that the magazine is doing badly right now and nobody wants to read it. Newsweek, for the record, has a circulation of almost 2 million - even more than Vanity Fair or the New Yorker.

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