Political Hypocrisy

I am furious with the current campaigns being waged in California for governor and for the Senate. Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor, is buying the seat, spending 91 million of her own dollars. Yes, 91 million dollars. She is running as a fiscal conservative but what does her bottomless spending show? Someone who has absolutely no ability to budget or conserve and is basically amazingly and completely self serving. I understand that it is her money, she is not receiving public funds, yet the waste is still criminal. I would like to see, in my Utopian universe, a way that candidates can use the millions upon millions of dollars that they spend bashing each other in the media to do good. How about donating 2 million dollars to the LAUSD and making a few speeches at the ceremony. How about donating 10 million to create a health care pool for under served populations and making a few speeches there. The possibilities are endless and the press and media sources could help by making sure that the donations are publicized and by giving the candidates time and coverage to make it worth it. We could make it a public policy; for every dollar spent on a TV ad or newspaper ad, the same dollar would have to be donated to a worthy cause. It might help us out of this catastrophic financial crisis that we are in and give us candidates who want to govern and do good, rather than feed their egos by buying a kingdom.