I’ve heard women say, “We need a woman in the statehouse.” Maybe someday, but not this woman.

In February, Meg Whitman told delegates at the state Republican Party convention, “I regret not having delivered my vote on several occasions,” and “I’ve been a registered ‘decline to state’ voter since 1998.”

On Sept. 29, Whitman explained her reasons for not voting regularly at a campaign event in Davis: “I, like many Americans, was not as engaged as I should have been over the last 20 or 30 years,” Whitman said. “I was focused on raising a family, on my husband’s career. We moved many, many times, and it is no excuse. My voting record, my registration record, is unacceptable.”

What a slap in the face to the millions of women who also have families and small businesses and still find the time to vote!

How can we trust Meg Whitman to be the governor of California when she can’t even set her voting record straight?

It’s unacceptable for a candidate who’s running for the position of governor of the eighth largest economy in the world to tell us she hasn’t been engaged as she should have been for 20 or 30 years. Dianne Alexander Thousand Oaks