A Buy It Now option makes sense for material goods. But now billionaire Meg Whitman (aka eMeg), former eBay CEO and Republican gubernatorial candidate, looks like she’s trying to buy California now. In these past few months alone, she spent $27 million on her campaign (most of it money she gave herself) including an unparalleled TV campaign ad-buy that’s made it nearly impossible for any other candidate for statewide office to get any real air-time between now and June.

What can you do with $38 million? You can fund 577 teachers’ salaries for a year. You can fund the entire California Conservation Corps for a year and have a $3 million left over. You can even fund the operations of half of the state parks in California for a year to make the closure of state parks a problem for a different year… or you can fund two campaigns in the Republican primary for governor (well, some of it anyway).