Meg Whitman Quits Three Boards; Will She Run for Governor?

Former eBay (EBAY) CEO Meg Whitman has resigned her seats on the boards of Procter & Gamble (PG), eBay and Dreamworks Animation (DWA), The Wall Street Journal reports, increasing speculation that she may be planning a run for governor of California. The WSJ reports that sources say Whitman will announce her plans in the next four to six weeks.

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  • http://www.kenokel.com Ken Okel

    Whitman is very talented and it’s interesting to think of her running for public office. Still, California is facing a lot of challenges and I’m not sure if anyone can solve them.

  • http://allthingsd.com/ Eric Welch

    If she wins, I’m moving out of California. eBay has always had less respect for its users than it ought to. They way they handled so many things makes me wonder just what a Whitman administration would mean.

    I’m hoping democrats can put up a decent candidate to take the governorship back from the trickle down fundamentalists.

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