John McCain’s Treasury Secretary choice and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman lost her two big-name GOP consultants before she even decides to run for governor of California.

Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, spilling the beans in his SFGate blog, talks about the two-and-a-half-hour lunch he and DiFi had in North Beach the other day, where she brought lots of charts and graphs: not about the race to get 60 Democrats in the Senate, but about how the state government needs to manage its way out of the mess Arnold has made.