Posted on 09/19/2015 8:12:31 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The loss of her stepdaughter, Lori Ann Fiorina, to addiction in 2009. It may be unusual for a public figure to share such personal tragedies so openly, but death by drug overdose is not uncommon in the United States.
“We need to tell young people the truth. Drug addiction is an epidemic, and it is taking too many of our young people,” Fiorina said during the debate. “My husband Frank and I buried a child to drug addiction.”
Wednesday’s debate was not the first time Fiorina brought up the death of her stepdaughter, whom she had known since Lori was six years old. “Lori was a bouncy, happy and loving child,” she wrote in her book "Rising to the Challenge," released in May. “She was smart and hardworking.”
Lori Ann Fiorina was just 35 years old when she died, and it remains unclear, at least publicly, what specific substances led to her death. But, Fiorina noted, “The news wasn’t completely unexpected. Lori had been battling addictions for years.” She had done three stints in rehab, and even when she was a college student her parents feared she drank excessively.
But after Lori Fiorina graduated from college, she seemed to thrive. She found a job in sales, an apartment and a husband. Little did Fiorina and her husband know that their daughter had begun to abuse prescription drugs, even as she struggled with bulimia and alcoholism.
The former HP CEO turned that experience into a call for action during Wednesday’s debate. “I know there are millions of Americans out there who will say the same thing” about having lost a child to addition, she said. “We must invest more in the treatment of drugs.”
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Sounds like this could be why we are losing 22 vets a day with all the meds the VA prescribes.
If she were still alive, my mother, er, I mean my step-mother, would likely disagree with your obnoxious statement.........So would my sisters, er, I mean my step-sisters......
Not really, for most "public" figures that is just another rung on their ladder of ambition.
You might know the answer. Didn’t she have an affair with the father of “child” and break up the marriage of her parents? She later married him.
“Every 4 years FR gets unbearable. You just have to mostly ignore the threads till after the nomination is decided. Political debate is when all humans are at their worst. Including conservatives.”
You are absolutely correct. Some of these threads are an indication of why Republicans and conservatives are perceived as heartless, insensitive and unfeeling. Keep it up. I wonder how well you can dance after you shoot yourself in the foot?
She implied that it was her child from the above statement.
It's more like a hildabutchbitch truth than an out right lie.
You can rail about, "Show me where she lied" but you know she twisted the truth and mislead by implication.
GO CRUZ AND TRUMP.
She did not lie, at least not in the Clintonian construction of truth.
On hearing her story I assumed that: 1) the it was her biological daughter; 2) she was an actual child (at least younger than 20ish); 3) who was living with them as child/dependant; 4) had died from illegal drugs, not prescription medicine (this was defending the war on illegal drugs remember).
While nothing she said was technically untrue, it was pitched to give the, at least somewhat false, impression I detailed above.
You are correct many use a child’s death as a rung on a political ladder. Carly aside, John Edwards was a prime example of that.
The drug abuse that killed Lori may have been a symptom of pain induced by the destruction of her family at such a young age. Just a thought.
Not necessarily. Your child is always your child. My mother calls me Baby and I’m 48.
That is a possibility. That was my first thought, too.
It depends on the situation.
In Fiorina's case, did the mother leave the family, and did Carly raise the children? No.
Did the mother lose custody of the children? No, the mother had custody of them, which means they lived with their mother. They probably stayed with their dad and Carly during visitation.
All that makes Carly's words and comments questionable because she not only refers to this woman as "our daughter" and ignores the real mother, but also she referred to the daughter's death to score points in a political debate. That makes people wonder about Carly.
Your make things up and then declare them to be the truth.
She did not lie.
And you are becoming hysterical.
Apparently there is a high level of emotionalism going on here that no amount of logic will quell.
I will leave you to it as I received my answer. She didn't lie.
No way am I supporting her. No possible way. I just don’t believe in being unfair as a means of winning. She is not my candidate for many reasons.
Thanks for the warning, though.
George Putnam had a radio talk show toward the end of his career. He was a well known announcer at one point, had interviewed in the neighborhood of ten presidents. I believe it wound up being 11, but I may be off a bit.
He used to talk about Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. He was pretty down on the guy.
In 2001, Carley made a presentation in Aspen, Colorado. The thread is here. Some of the links in the thread are good when tying Marxism to Hegel’s teachings.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3337342/posts
If I thought Carly was a solid candidate, even if I didn’t want her, I wouldn’t trash here. I am not a Cruz first guy, I do criticize him, but I still want him to be the V.P. pick.
I don’t want Carley anywhere near power.
You mentioned her leadership skills compared to Trump’s. You made a decent argument related to working with other managers under you.
I think folks have a bit of a skewed vision of what Trump’s life is like. He has many experts and underlings. He does make the ultimate decisions, but he isn’t a dictator any more than a husband or wife are in a home. Ultimately a decision has to be made, and Trump makes it. Same for Fiorina at HP.
Let me ask you this. Do you think Fiorina would have been as thrilled with her performance if it had been her money on the line? If she walked away with half her money, think she would have been bragging?
Trump had a low point of -$150 million dollars around 1990. 25 years later, he’s turned that around and has multiple billions.
His adult life has been focused on saving money, getting the job done on time under budget. Time is money!
He’s used to dealing with massive sums of money making deals. IMO< he is exactly the guy we need to get our budget under control.
Decades of on the job experience have taught him to see the things differently than others do. He sees a situation and thinks in terms that would amaze us.
Fiorina spent about five years at H.P., and left when the company was down. Trump has spent his entire career in his current position, and is on top.
Trump knows the talent. He can draw on some great financiers to help him mold economic policy.
Who would make the statement that he would get Mexico to pay for the wall? Honestly, not one other person I’ve ever heard of, has made that claim. That’s the exact sort of thing I’m talking about.
Others are bickering about the need for a wall, the cost of a wall, the ethics of a wall, and Trump says he’ll build a 60 foot wall and Mexico will pay for it.
He just sees things differently. He’ll wind up getting Mexico to pay for it too.
Wow, that was below the belt.
Not once in my comments did I make an ad-homin attack, and I am a rock-ribbed constitutional conservative, which is why I don't trust Fiorina.
I think you have me mixed up with another poster. I never mentioned her leadership skills nor did I compare her to Trump. I don’t like Carly as a candidate. She supported McCain. She favored Civil Unions. She made a pro Islam speech right after 9/11/01. She said Kim Davis should be fired. There is no possible way I will vote for her even if she were the nominee.
I want a true conservative to win and that is not Carly. How we win matters. If we become con artists and cheap shot name callers (no reference to Trump who is just defending himself most of the time) who will use anything to win then what have we won? We may win power but who can we trust? Character matters. I am only defending Carly’s use of her step-daughter as an example. This is not Family Feud. It is the issue that matters. People can differ on her example all they want. So what?
I tend to think so as well.
Sorry for it seeming like I was piling on.
Not sure how I affixed that to your comments, but it seems I did so in error.
I appreciate the tip. I’ll try to find the intended target and make them suffer instead. (LOL)
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