I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

They have two sons. According to final reports Whitman spent $144 million from her own personal funds. The comment came in connection with the disclosure that her campaign had paid far above market rates for advertising on a conservative political blog.

3 billion in 2010 Meg Whitman spent more of her own money on the race than any other political candidate spent on a single election in American history spending $144 million total of her own fortune and $178. Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman (born August 4 1956) is an American business executive. In the 1990s Meg Whitman served as an executive for DreamWorks Procter & Gamble and Hasbro.