Posted on 08/09/2015 4:50:44 AM PDT by dontreadthis
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina’s presidential campaign explained her past support for Race to the Top and No Child Left Behind today. Sarah Isgur Flores, Fiorina’s communications direct, sent Caffeinated Thoughts the following email:
Carly does not support Common Core. As she has said, there is absolutely no evidence that the work of a big, centralized bureaucracy in Washington makes things better. In fact, there’s loads of evidence to the contrary. The Department of Education has been growing in size and budget for 40 years and the quality of our education continues to deteriorate.
Carly has always believed that choice and accountability are necessary to fix our education system. We can do that by having great teachers and by giving these teachers the ability and flexibility to teach the things that our kids need: risk-taking, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation.
Her support for state-based accountability measures in 2010 was about implementing education reforms that encouraged more accountability and transparency at the state level. Common Core, which wasn’t implemented in California until this past fall, has been a set of standards created in DC and driven by the education-industrial complex seeking to commercialize our students. Frankly, the two aren’t even close to the same thing. Carly favors state driven accountability, which she did in 2010 and she does now. That is emphatically not what common core has been or become.
At the time that Race to the Top was proposed in 2009 and when Carly supported it in 2010, it was a funding program based on real performance metrics and opposed by the teachers’ unions. But like so many other government programs with worthy goals backed by flowery speeches, it hasn’t turned out to be what we were promised. Instead, Race to the Top is just the latest example of the federal bureaucracy caving to the powerful interests in Washington and abandoning its original goals.
Voters will have to decide whether they buy her explanation or not.
her one page 2010 support for Common Core:
http://www.carlyforca.com/downloads/CarlyonEducation.pdf
Carly is defending Megyn Kelly, maybe Kelly will vote for Carly but I certainly will not.
Plain and simple, she is for federal intrusion and control of education. I suppose she and Bill Gates might have discussed this?
It is clear to me that she took an ideological stance when she ran in CA in 2010-quite strong position (see . pdf above). Now she seems to be against illegal federal intrusion in education when running on a national level. Listening to her explanations, it looks like she is not very informed on the subject. IMO, she is not a conservative and definitely establishment, although she now says she does not support big gov’t. She is a good businesswoman who made it through hard work, always respectable.
At least she did not say to stick with Common Core and just change the name as Gov. Bush’s pal Gov. Huckabee and as Gov. Scott did.
This issue may seem trivial considering all the problems America is facing, but IMHO education is the future of our country. 90% of private schools and Catholic schools have aligned their curriculum to Common Core because of $, and home schooling will not be exempt if there is no major push back.
Of all the potential and announced candidates for 2016 presidency, I see that only Sen. Cruz and Gov. Jindal are credible opponents of Common Core.
She also said Ted Cruz was wrong doing his filibustering on Obamacare to try to get it stopped,she also said she would have voted for Sonia Sotomayor for the supreme court,me thinks old Carly has a lot of explaining to do
This is so frustrating. All these candidates say all the right things and the sound great during the campaign. The problem is, could we trust them. History tell us, no
Track record is the key
The problem is, most voters aren't smart enough to see she's a flimflam artist. Heck, whoever hired her sorry @ss at HP wasn't smart enough to see it. After a 50% decrease in stock value later...
HP branches all over were singing "Ding, Dong, The Witch Is DEAD!" the day she got her walking papers. She was that much of a disaster! I'm still convinced it's her evil twin.
She put a target on her back when she turned to the left, she wants to stand behind Kelly, fine, but go with the dems if you do, and don’t fake out as being a conservative...your not one....
How many election cycles are we going to reluctantly vote for the RINO and act shocked and horrified when they inevitably betray us?
At this point, we conservatives deserve to be stabbed in the back.
In 2010, when Sara Palin was to officially endorse her, she backed out of an event featuring Palin and her appearing together. Her handlers told her appearing with Palin would not be good for her campaign because Palin is so “devisive”. She also spoke at a Clinton Foundation event last year and sits on the board of several organizations with ties to the foundation. She also ran Hewlett Packard in the ground and was fired for her incompetence. On abortion the Carly the RINO believes it’s fine to murder the child in cases of rape, incest and “life of the mother”. If she thinks this makes her pro-life she’s sadly mistaken, as are any politicians that have abortion exceptions. That’s also Jeb Bush’s stance, which is in direct violation of the teachings of the Catholic Church, which he professes to belong to. Fiorina is also for the democrat-contrived Dream Act for illegal students.
Carly’s articulate and quick on her feet, but she really barely measures on the conservative scale at all.
She is one of many “campaign conservatives”, as Cruz so aptly called them, in this race. Egos and personal agendas looking to deceive—and split—the primary vote.
“Running Hewlett Packard into the ground” is sort of a canard, but yeah, she’s not a real conservative.
She helped kill Lucent also.
She is a very bright lady that knows how to speak and want to say. However her judgment does not seem to match her rhetoric. Attacking Trump over something he did not say is a cheap shot. It reveals poor judgment and lack of character. I'm done looking at Carly, fail.
Her actions left thousands unemployed and almost crippled HP .
I know two people that worked at HP and she was a disaster.
She is also pro abortion until she decided to run for President.
Carly would be a poison on any ticket.
http://readersupportednews.org/post-article-or-video
“The Job-Killing Touch”: How Carly Fiorina Wrecked Hewlett-Packard and the Bell Labs, and Set American Science Back By Decades
That Carly Fiorina was a one-woman wrecking crew during her tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard is a scandal that the Republican Senate standard bearer is spending millions to try and blunt. Running on her executive experience, it is hard to see how Fiorina can square her professed executive aptitude with the fact that as H-P CEO between 1999 and 2005, she single-handedly came near to sinking what was widely considered the world’s best technology company.
At Hewlett-Packard Fiorina was responsible for the ill-fated merger with Compaq, as well as firing nearly 30,000 employees and sending tens of thousands of jobs oversea. Never lacking in chutzpa, Fiorina celebrated the latter coup as “Right Shoring.” Things got so bad for H-P that in 2002, Arianna Packard, granddaughter of founder David Packard joined with Bill Hewlett, Walter Hewlett’s son, in a proxy fight to oust Fiorina. That moved failed, but in 2005, Fiorina was finally fired, and given a $20-million dollar settlement to just go away. In response H-P’ stock price bounced back by 10% in a single day. About Fiorina’s service at H-P Arianna Packard wrote, “I know a little bit about Carly Fiorina, having watched her almost destroy the company my grandfather founded.”
While the H-P episode is better known, Fiorina was involved in a much more damaging business disaster, one that America will continue to pay for for generations; the destruction of the Bell Laboratories. Beginning in 1995, Fiorina took over as the head of corporate operations of the AT&T spinoff, “Lucent Technologies” which included the Bell Labs.
That is where the trouble began.
For those unfamiliar with the Bell Labs, it was Ma Bell’s gift to America, a place where monopoly telephone service was offset by a research business that employed over 25,000 scientists, engineers, mathematicians and researchers.
At the Bell Labs, research was considered an end unto itself, where, according to one executive, “you did something useful or you do something very beautiful.” The realm of the former included such immensely important breakthroughs as the transistor, the silicon microprocessor, the laser, fiber optics, the communications satellite, the UNIX and C++ computer operating systems. In the pursuit of improved communications, serendipity occurred such as in the form of the confirmation of the “Big Bang” theory which won physicist Arno Penzias a 1977 Nobel Prize. Penzias, the retired Bell Labs vice-president for research, put it best when he told this writer that “one of the great luxuries of the Bell Labs is that we don’t always need to get it right.” The Labs did get it right enough to amass more than 25,000 patents.
That all began changing in 1995 when a corporate team that included Carly Fiorina descended on the Bell Labs and began to pull the plug on pure research. According to Penzias, then clearly on the way out, “today we have an environment of interaction, while it is still collegial you now live with business-people.”
A key member of that latter group was Carly Fiorina who lead the housecleaning which let the scientists at Lucent know that they had better start looking for ways to “productize” their research. In 1997, Fiorina was appointed group president for global services and two years later, joined Hewlett-Packard.
What she left behind at Lucent/Bell Labs was a smoking ruin of what had been the world’s most important and productive research lab, an entity largely responsible for giving America the post-World War II boost that helped make the nation the world technology leader, contributing mightily to the prosperity that Americans took for granted but which came in no small measure from the pure research as practiced at the Bell Labs. By insisting that every piece of research be tied to a product, Fiorina and her ilk helped prevent a new generation of scientists from looking out over the far horizon and bringing back the kind of benefits that have come from such then-seemingly useless technologies including the transistor, laser, fiber optics.
The correlation between Fiorina’s tenure at the Bell Labs and the decline of American technology is tragic and is not coincidental. Despite the millions being spent on media to convince voters otherwise, Fiorina is one of those one-dimensional corporate bottom feeders whose only answer to fixing the bottom line is to fire thousands of people rather than finding creative ways to use the immense brainpower that could be used to grow a company and a nation out of economic hard times.
Voters, pay attention! Carly Fiorina’s purge at Lucent and disastrous tenure at H-P highlights her as the kind of retrograde executive a struggling California economy cannot afford to elect to higher office. Fiorina has already proven to be an uncreative corporate drone and a sheer catastrophe for American business and technology. So far she has not shown herself capable of mastering the long-term strategic thinking necessary to truly succeed in American business. That creativity was never apparent when Fiorina was at H-P and certainly not when she was at the Bell Labs. It is a similarly tough stretch to imagine a Senator Fiorina bringing anything but her “killing touch” to politics and governance.
Caryl jumping on the Murdoch latest PR move to make Kelly a victim to hide her ugly unprofessional behavior against Trump and other is really pathetic.
It the oldest PR move in the Lib media handbook.
Now, no one talks about Fox Leftist News or Kelly outrageous actions and the focus is on mean Trump.
It's so sadly obvious.
Caryl decided to grovel to the DC donor class who want Trump gone !
RINO
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