| The Loyal Opposition |
| | This Trio of local Republican civility would enhance any administration, even the loyal opposition which has called for an end to the culture wars. |
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| Ch | | Charlotte Smith Mailliard Swig Shultz (born ca. 1934) is an American heiress, socialite and ceremonial Chief of Protocol and Director of Special Events for the City and County San Francisco. She is the wife of former United States Secretary of State George P. Shultz.
Mailliard's marriage, at the age of sixty-three, to the former Secretary of State at Grace Cathedral in 1997 was considered the Bay Area's "wedding of the year." They were introduced to each other by Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein (George Shultz would propose to Charlotte at the Bohemian Club with a diamond, sapphire and ruby ring). The bride was twice a widow.
Today, the power couple continues to dominate San Francisco social events, their public lives intersecting through their vast contacts, from attending White House state dinners to throwing a bash for Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit in 2006 at their Russian Hill penthouse at The Summit. wikipedia.org/Charlotte_Mailliard The High Priestess of Partydom @ sfgate.com 1996 |  | Charlotte Schulz, Chief of Protocol for the State of California and for the City and
County of San Francisco. | | Swig had dominated the mayor's protocol office for 7 administrations having only been slighted by one-term Mayor Frank Jordan in favor of Richard Goldman (founder of the Nobel Prize for the Environment with wife Rhoda goldmanprize.org ) The unpaid position is in charge of making sure that visiting dignitaries and celebrities take home a good impression of the City by the Bay. "I picked Charlotte Mailliard Swig because she is simply the best,'' said Mayor Willie Brown in 1996 when he restored her title, "San Francisco, and the image of this city, is embodied by Charlotte Swig. She is smart, well-read, enthusiastic and just plain fun.'' | | foto credit: sanfranciscosentinel.com w | |
| Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman (born August 4, 1956)[2] was President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay from March 1998 to March 2008 Whitman has an impressive, blue-chip résumé, with executive stints at Hasbro, the Walt Disney Co. and Bain & Co., among others. Whitman also serves on the boards of eBay as well as DreamWorks Animation, Procter & Gamble and the Gap. Despite her stock's volatility, her personal holdings are valued at $1.6 billion, making Whitman one of the richest people on the planet. On February 9, 2009, Whitman announced she would run for governor of California in the 2010 election. |
| | Silicon Valley & the SF Bay Area | | Former Mayor of San Jose Ron Gonzalez often remarked that Silicon Valley was the engine around which the global economy spun. Unfortunately very little culture spins around these narcissistic companies who rarely pay dividends and have little time for contributing to their community. Still in 2009 the Bay Area Council pointed out that the Bay Area economy is larger than Brazils. Meg's tenure at Ebay was rather typical of this stance, where the company stayed focused on the bottom line to the exclusion of less measurable returns. | wikipedia.org/Meg_Whitman |  | | The Race for Governor 2010 | "California does not have a revenue problem, but its leaders are addicted to OPM - other people's money.",
she told the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce's Women in Leadership group in February of 2009. Her competition says not so fast to the billionaire former eBay executive who as the driving force in her firm's $2.5 billion acquisition of Internet phone service Skype has left her firm with a white elephant that no one wants to buy. Her race against Republican rival Steven Poizner is also up against the ultra-conservative nature of the California Republican Party organizers who have never before nominated a woman for the state's top executive post. | |
|  Condoleezza "Condi" Rice (born November 14, 1954) was the 6th United States Secretary of State, in the administration of President George W. Bush returning to Stanford University in 2009 after 8 years in Washington DC as a political science professor at the Hoover Institution. She has served two other U.S. presidents, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan. With her steely nerve and delicate manners (she has been called the "Warrior Princess"),. | In what could be perceived as disapproval toward Dick Cheney's disparaging comments about the Obama administration, Rice told TV host Jay Leno
"My view is we got to do it our way; we did our best. We did some things well, some things not so well. Now, they get their chance. And I agree with the president. We owe them our loyalty and our silence while they do it. Because I know what it's like to have people chirping at you when they perhaps don't know what's going on inside. These are quality people. I know them. They love the country | co | | | |
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