Fiorina Has Scant Backing From Silicon Valley [Cisco, Netflix, Oracle, Support Boxer}

SFChronicle ^ | June 19, 2010

[Steelfish]

Fiorina Has Scant Backing From Silicon Valley

Ari Levy, Bloomberg News June 19, 2010

Carly Fiorina, the former head of Hewlett-Packard Co., faces a wall of opposition from her Silicon Valley peers as she campaigns to win one of California's U.S. Senate seats. Her victory in the Republican primary earlier this month puts Fiorina up against Democrat incumbent Barbara Boxer, a senator since 1993. Boxer has the financial support of local executives, including Cisco Systems Inc.'s John Chambers, Oracle Corp.'s Larry Ellison, Netflix Inc.'s Reed Hastings, and John Doerr from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Fiorina's inability to win the backing of technology leaders contrasts with eBay Inc.'s former chief, Meg Whitman, who's racking up funding from Silicon Valley in the state's gubernatorial race.

Fiorina's lack of support, even from executives such as Chambers who are known to back Republicans, may reflect misgivings about her tenure at Hewlett-Packard, which lost half its market value on her watch. It also stiffens the challenge of beating a Democrat in a Democratic state.

"It makes it a harder hill to climb for Carly," said Jim Cunneen, a Silicon Valley Republican assemblyman from 1994 to 2000. He's currently a principal at political consulting firm California Strategies in San Jose. "She has a lot of work to do to reach out to independents and moderates, but also to reach out to this tech community that certainly knows her private-sector experience the best of anybody in the state."

[Tzimisce]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsGR83Imoto

[hinckley buzzard]

Anyone influenced by the idiot children of silicon valley deserves what he gets. They still got those 1000 dollar office chairs for sale (best offer) out there?

[NohSpinZone]

This isn’t a surprise. Most Silicon Valley companies were completely in the bag for Zero in ‘08 and support for the ‘Rats among the rank-and-file is even worse. Carly needs to tap into the Boxer fatigue in the rest of CA.

[Cacique]

All the silicon valley idiots are riddled with 1) guilt of success, as disease imported from the European left. 2) they are also riddled with envy and resentment. Most in the corporate class in modern times support the left. They are NOT entrepreneurs in the strict sense of the word but the managerial class put in place through the incestuous relationship with mutual funds and bankers who control, rather than own the wealth they manage. The real owners of the means of production are the victims of the wall that separates them from their investments (ie. the means of production). The corporate world has become fascist in everything but name. The left realized just as Mussolini did in the late 20's that it need not own the means of production as the soviets did, they simply need to control it. That is what has happened and Obama is their boy which is why they voted for him.

On the other hand are the small business owners and entrepreneurs who have a direct relationship with the businesses they own and started. That is why that class is still republican and conservative for the most part.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

John Chambers only has one vote...

[DallasDeb]

Corporations don’t vote. People do.

[Steelfish]

Money Talks

[Jackson Brown]

Gee, what a surprise......

The breeding ground and birth place of Moveon.org doesn't support a Republican

[Parley Baer]

I love these articles from the liberal rags. Nothing to do with the issues at stake just some bs to try and take the voters away from the issues at hand.

[Theodore R.]

People in CA are fully committed to the Brown-Boxer ticket as they once were to the Brown Derby restaurant, and I don’t think we can do a thing about their inclinations.

[zeestephen]

"Fiorina's lack of support, even from executives such as Chambers who are known to back Republicans....."

John Chambers - alleged Republican - has given the maximum lawful contribution to Democrat Senate President Harry Reid.

Within the past two weeks John Chambers - alleged Republican - sponsored a Silicon Valley fund raiser for Harry Reid.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Well - acknowledging that Fiorina is not perfect - I think she’s going to look awfully good (both figuratively and literally) when matched up against Boxer by November 2nd. The media flap over the hair remark was just the Boxer-leaning-media showing sensitivity to the fact that Fiorina is a much more appealing image. Boxer is a shrew by comparison, and that comparison will be made.

[SoCalPol]

>>Fiorina Has Scant Backing From Silicon Valley >>

The Silicon Valley area is Liberal territory.

Fiorina on FOX the other day again gave her support to Arizona, their Gov. and their new law against illegals.
Fiorina also stated again her views against Cap & Trade.

Liberal Silicon Valley are Boxer people.
Also it is a small population area so no big woop

[SoCalPol]

You are incorrect. I live in California.

[Steelfish]

“Small Population” but big impact. Just ask Obama who hauled in tens of millions of dollars from this group.

[fabian]

I love these conservative women! Carly, the aldy in Nevada, and Meg Whitman...at least fiscally for Meg. Onward sisters!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

You nailed it. These articles always use straw-man or non-sequituir arguments that will have no bearing on the final election results.

[rmlew]

True, but there is another reason for them to distrust Fiorina. Her leadership of HP was quite harmful to the company. She chose marketing and outsourcing with actual R&D. Quality and customer care fell.

[ThomasThomas]

The Brown Derby is gone. So you are saying there is Hope for Change?