Meg Whitman likes to talk about how she can translate her experience as the former CEO at eBay into being California’s governor — even though she’s never run for public office before and for decades couldn’t be troubled to vote.

But the man who hired Whitman at eBay — Pierre Omidyar — told Bloomberg TV Tuesday that he wouldn’t vote for Whitman if he lived in California.

Here’s a transcript from the interview on “InBusiness with Margaret Brennan” on Bloomberg TV, which will air at 7 AM Pacific Time Wednesday:

Would she be an effective CEO of the state of California?

“I worked with Meg for 10 years,” Omidyar said. “She is a fantastic executive. She did a great job at eBay. Her real skill is using data to inform strategic decisions, and bringing teams together, putting the right people in the right jobs at the right time. So I think on that basis, I think she would do a great job as governor.

“Now I have not endorsed her, because we have some differences on some of the political issues,” Omidyar said. “I was disappointed in her not correct decision in my view to support Proposition 8 in California. I was disappointed in her alignment with former governor (and her campaign chair) Pete Wilson on immigration issues, who I think took some very extreme views years ago about denying benefits to illegal immigrants. And so because of those types of issues, I think we are a little bit apart, and I can’t quite support her because of that. But from her skill set, she’s somebody who I think would do a great job, someone who I would actually work with again.”

Would you actually vote for her if you still lived in California?

“On the basis of, I think her misread of Proposition 8 and the Constitutional issues related to that as well as the human rights issues related to that, and on the basis of the immigration issues, I would find it very difficult to vote for her,” Omidyar said.

“At the same time, I think despite that, were she to be elected, I would absolutely work with her and I think she would do a great job. And I would work of course to change her mind on some of these other issues.”

Keep in mind that Pierre has dished 67 percent of his (federal) political contributions ($145,000) over the years to Democrats, and only 2 percent to Republicans; the rest went to various other campaigns. Check them out here.

No video yet as the show is still in production. We’ll post as soon as we get.

Update: Here’s the video.