California Governor Candidates Sing!

Richard Aguirre, Jerry Brown, Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman must immediately form a rock music group.  California's entertainment industry and music fans demand it!

Just imagine... the Grammys!  The glory!  The groupies!  I can feel the excitement from the Silicon Valley to San Diego and all the way to Sacramento.  Totally genius!

These four leading candidates in the 2010 race for California governor could release a smash album and raise millions of campaign dollars.  The profits from album sales would be split four ways evenly.  This would level the campaign finance playing field, somewhat.

What world famous supergroups would Aguirre, Brown, Poizner & Whitman remind Californians of?

ABBA was a hugely popular group back in the day, with the group's name consisting of the four members' initials.  I wonder, though, could our new group "ABPW" see the same level of success?  Hmmm...

The Beatles were phenomenally gigantic.  If we match our four California gubernatorial candidates up against the "Fab Four", which candidate would be which Beatle?  Let's see:

• John Lennon was the unconventional and revolutionary Beatle.  The best match is Richard Aguirre as John.
• Paul McCartney was always the prettiest and most delicate looking Beatle.  We'll let Meg Whitman be Paul.
• George Harrison was the spiritual Beatle.  Jerry Brown meditates as a real Jesuit priest, so he is our George.
• Ringo Starr was always either ignored or picked-on.  Steve Poizner has the same complaints.  Ringo?  Bingo!

While nobody wants to sing the lyrics to "Taxman", it WAS written and sung by George Harrison.  Sorry, Jerry Brown.  You'll have to sing those dreadful words as you are our George --- our Taxman. 

That's show biz.

Van Halen is one of the greatest rock music acts to have ever come from California, with singer David Lee Roth epitomizing the long-haired blond rock star.  Richard Aguirre has the long blond hair, so he's our "Diamond Dave".

Okay, so there's another California candidate for governor who's blonde and wants to sing lead --- eMeg --- but that arrangement has been known as "Van Hagar" for two decades already.  Please, Meg, don't be Sammy Hagar.

Music industry insiders would suggest that our California candidates perform classic crowd-pleasers, like:

• "Sittin' on the Dock of the eBay"
• "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
• "I Will Survive"
• "Can't Buy Me Love"
• "Stand By Me"
• "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
• "Come Together"
• "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?"
• "Running on Empty"
• "With or Without You"
• "The End of the Innocence"
• "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
• "Won't Get Fooled Again"
• "Born to Run"

Naturally, the encore should be "California Dreamin".

For their first hit single, it's been suggested that Aguirre, Brown, Poizner & Whitman remake the classic 1972 hit song "Sacramento" by the legendary group Middle of the Road.  (Even this group's name seems appropriate for California's 2010 gubernatorial campaign.)

The following video of the original version of "Sacramento" shows the blonde singer (Meg Whitman) --- along with her THREE male band mates --- on the "campaign train" to...

SACRAMENTO!