Ecalifornia?

It appears, judging from the multitude of television commercials that Meg Whitman wants to be the next governor of California. She made the auction site Ebay the success that it is today and thinks that she can do the same thing to California, turning it back into what it once was. Sounds good, perhaps.
I must take some sort of backwards glances though as I read more and more about this campaign. Starting with the Republican spearheading it, one Pete Wilson. Pete is an ex governor of California. He screwed the state up so badly during his years of running California to the point where the Public Employees Retirement System had to loan the state enough money to bail it out. Being a member of PERS I was appalled that the state could just "borrow" money from my retirement system like that. Surely this savvy businesswoman could find a better person to spearhead her campaign.
She says she wants to cut government spending and I am all in favor of that. How about we simply stop paying the elected idiots in Sacramento anything beyond enough money to rent a simple house and buy groceries.. You know, like the rest of the people live. That would save the state enough money right there to bail itself out of the mess the current governor has put us into.
Of course, after Arnold, just about anyone would be an improvement. I just don't see how one Republican turning the state over to another Republican is going to help us. It is time for the Democrats to quit pussyfooting around and start campaigning for Jerry Brown. But first, Jerry must quit sleeping long enough to actually put his hat into the ring. Do it now, Jerry, before it is too late. Ms. Whitman is gaining ground on you way too quickly!