Bullying Snob Demands the Governorship

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/index.html?story=%2Fpolitics%2Fwar_room%2F2010%2F06%2F17%2Fwhitman_class_privilege

We don't know exactly what's true in the charges that have been flung against various members of Meg Whitman's family, and against the Republican gubernatorial candidate herself. What we do know, however, is that she and each of her sons have been accused of atrocious acts that bear a surprising family resemblance.

The candidate herself has been accused of shoving an employee while she was in charge at eBay. Apparently, a staff member named Young Mi Kim was helping Whitman prepare for an online interview. Whitman seems to have been unhappy with Kim's briefing, and either shoved her, or "physically guided her" out of the room. The resulting lawsuit was settled out of court and included a confidentiality agreement.

As Alex Pareene wrote yesterday, we recently found out that one of Whitman's sons, Griffith Rutherford Harsh V, was arrested in 2006 for battery, after breaking a woman's ankle at a bar in Palo Alto. Harsh, who was 21 at the time, apparently pushed Victoria Sanchez after she knocked off his hat and said, "Fuck your fraternity." Harsh disputed the story, saying she had pushed him and then stumbled, but a security guard corroborated Sanchez's account. Whitman bailed her son out, and charges were eventually dismissed.

Griff Harsh's younger brother Will, meanwhile, was supposedly banned from an eating club at Princeton, where he was a student, for using the n-word. As it's reported, he had already been put on notice for picking a fight with a bouncer, and the racial slur was the last straw.

MORE at the link ---

[leftofcool]

1. The family that hates together stays together.

[Catshrink]

2. My, that was harsh.

:rofl:

(sorry, the pun was too good to pass up)

[AndyA]

3. Griffith. Rutherford. Harsh. V.

The woman names her son Griffith-Rutherford-Harsh-the-fifth?

I think that pretty much says everything anyone might need to know about her. She is not one of us, she feels she is superior to most others.

It sounds like this family has a history of abuse, and getting what they want. Let's hope she can't buy her way into the Governorship.

[SpiralHawk]

12. Republicons - sheesh.

And these RepubliBaggers own Fox news to keep telling the Sheeple to Assume the Position for the Royal Reaming they routinely deliver -- and the RepubliSheeple eat it up.

Sheesh. Ptoooey. I ain't going to no steenkin Republicon Homeland -- but am remaining in the 'land of the free and the home of the brave - America' no matter how much the Republiconistas hate it and try to bring it down.

[starroute]

14. Seems to be an old Southern family

Griffith Rutherford Harsh, born 1861, died 1924 in Birmingham, AL
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=geolarson2&id=I212321

Griffith Rutherford Harsh, Jr., born in Birmingham 1894, died 1949
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=geolarson2&id=I212319

Griffith Rutherford Harsh III born in Birmingham in 1924, became a neurosurgeon, now a retired cattle farmer in Sweetwater, TN
http://main.uab.edu/Sites/neurosurgery/faculty/47651/

Griffith Rutherford Harsh IV, also a neurosurgeon

[JBoy]

4. The shit doesn't fall far from the asshole.

[lonestarnot]

8. Snort.

:rofl:

[lunatica]

5. She has no idea who she's up against

I've seen the new ad about some journalist who keeps asking her why she's not voted in the past. First she says she should have but he keeps asking why and she just digs a bigger and bigger hole because she doesn't have an answer. Finally she puts an end to the questions and leaves.

She's already limping. Funny how so many get waylaid nowadays just as soon as they win a nomination.

It's actually fun to watch them fall flat on their faces as soon as they win.

[Catshrink]

6. She'll go Palin and refuse to talk to the media

and instead use all that money to buy air time with glowing ads about how great a CEO she was. Oh, and a great mom, too, surrounded by her adoring children.

Bank on it.

[lunatica]

18. It won't matter what she does. The ads are against her and about her

She can't do anything about what ads are aired about her.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

7. Why bother with the inconvenience of voting your viewpoint when you can just buy it?

Stand in line with the little people? Ugh. It's just so . . . outre.

[dgibby]

9. I'm guessing Leona Helmsley is her rolde model and hero. n/t

[WCGreen]

10. I wonder how much a confidentiality agreement go for on E-Bay...

[seafan]

11. And guess who is one of Meg Whitman's favorite supporters....

Honored to fundraise for Meg Whitman tonight, the next Governor of California! Friday, April 23, 2010 5:16:58 PM via Birdfeed--- Jeb Bush via Twitter

Bullying snob demands the governorship, Salon, June 17, 2010


There are many similarities between these two families.

[glitch]

13. Assumed it, nice to have it verified. Thanks. nt

[Cleita]

15. How stupid is a person who spends millions buying a job that

pays $150,000 a year. If she's in it for the power, she'd better talk to Arnold to find out how little power the governor actually has who doesn't have the charisma to be persuasive.

As for her sons, as an ex-bartender, they seem like the typical young, wealthy Republican punks who feel they are entitled to be the biggest asses they can be because mommy will get her lawyers on it to clean up the mess. I banned the badly behaving 22 year old son of a wealthy movie star, who screamed at me, "Do you know who my mother is? You'll pay for this!" The fact is the law was on my side and there was nothing mommy dearest and her lawyers could do about it other than buying the place and firing me but the place wasn't for sale.

[Hawkeye-X]

16. Care to reveal the celeb?

:)

[Cleita]

17. Not really. She's not well known today and harks to the forties.

I'm also wary of being sued by naming names. Although she has died, her rotten son is still alive.