It's been reported that Meg Whitman actually physically shoved

[Lindsey]

an eBay employee while she was CEO in 2007. This is beyond the pail. Attorney General Brown MUST bring this to light during his campaign. I'm asking all of my fellow Californians to call Jerry Brown's office to insist that he bring this incident to light. We're talking physical violence here.

[Cleita]

1. There was an actual source on DU about this like a link.

I'm sorry I didn't keep it. Apparently the employee left eBay for a while until it was investigated and then she came back to work and still is at eBay. It seems she and Meg are all chummy now, so I don't know if Jerry Brown will get much traction out of this. I think it would be better to point out that anyone who spends millions of dollars to get a job that pays $150,000 a year is pretty stupid and shouldn't be allowed to manage one of the world's largest ten economies.

[mackerel]

2. Does anybody have a link?

[Auggie]

3. Here:

sfgate.com / June 15th, 2010

Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman was involved in a confrontation in 2007 with an employee who was preparing eBay's then-CEO for a media interview, a confrontation that cost the San Jose online auction site a six-figure settlement, according to published reports.

The employee, Young Mi Kim, returned to work at eBay four months after the incident and continues to work for the company as a senior manager for corporate and executive communications, according to the New York Times, which first reported the story Monday.

After both parties attended a supervised mediation process in San Francisco, they reached a settlement believed to be "around $200,000" according to the newspaper. Kim was not injured and the police were not involved. "Yes, we had an unfortunate incident, but we resolved it in a way that speaks well for her and for eBay," Kim wrote to the Times in an e-mail Monday. "And ultimately, I came back to the company, which is not something I had to do."

On June 1, 2007, Kim was in an eBay conference room helping the CEO prepare for an interview with Reuters about Second Life, an online virtual world, the newspaper said. The story said Whitman grew frustrated because she wasn't adequately prepared for the interview. Because there are believed to be no other witnesses to the eBay incident, according to the Times, the range of ensuing confrontation ranges from Whitman "physically guiding" Kim out of the room to Whitman using an expletive and shoving her.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/15/BALT1DV3SV.DTL#ixzz0r9uLsiLb

And here:

sfgate.com / Business Insider, June 16th, 2010

We think California voters have a right to understand exactly what happened in the "shoving incident" reported yesterday.

In this incident, eBay CEO, Meg Whitman reportedly berated her PR person for being unprepared for a meeting and then, depending on who is describing the events, either "shoved" or "physically guided" her from the room.

The incident was serious enough that eBay or Meg (reportedly eBay) later paid the employee ~$200,000 to make the incident go away.

Now, it's possible that the employee, Young Mi Kim, WAS unprepared for the meeting, and in the interests of defending herself and re-directing the blame, exaggerated or made up what happened.

But given the size of the settlement, it's also possible that Meg snapped.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/06/16/businessinsider-here-are-our-questions-for-meg-whitman-about-the-shoving-incident-2010-6.DTL#ixzz0r9ulacyG

[KamaAina]

4. "When push comes to shove..."

"...California needs proven leadership. Jerry Brown, Governor."

[JuniperLea]

5. Awesome...

I also like... Jerry Brown has won more elections than Meg Whitman has voted in!

[EFerrari]

6. Pale. And you're right. That's unacceptable. n/t