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In reply to the discussion: The Two Major Reasons Why NSA Needs to Spy on US: [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Monetarily from handling so many aspects of the California gubernatorial process. She decides who runs for that office.
It was also very important to her personally for Bustamante, her hand picked Governor candidate, to lose, as only by his losing was she assured of completing her work on getting the PG & E/Enron ripoffs to remain in the coffers of the rich. Like the coffers of her own husband, Richard Blum. (That ripoff was worth 60 billion dollars to PG & E.)
I suspect that the couple would have been losers in terms of capital gains if Bustamante actually had won against Schwarzenegger.
There is only one individual who doesn't have to kowtow to Di Fi in order to run for an office. And that would be Jerry Brown, who has enough political capital of his own to do without her.