Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina must be sharing speechwriters, maybe someone from their tech pasts. On Wednesday, guv hopeful Whitman told a San Luis Obispo crowd that government should not try to "boil the ocean." The same day, U.S. Senate candidate Fiorina was in Washington, telling D.C. reporters, "Let's not boil the ocean on every issue." Some credit humorist Will Rogers with coining the term during WWI, but it's meaning – overly ambitious, virtually impossible – has become popular in technology circles. With California's seemingly intractable problems, it fits in the political context, too.
"Yes it can."
ATTORNEY GENERAL JERRY BROWN, answering lawmakers' question about whether the state pay commission can cut their salaries during their terms
Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Campbell announced he's passed the $1 million mark in fundraising, still light-years behind his GOP rivals, wealthy former Silicon Valley CEOs Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner.
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