Posted on 09/20/2015 10:26:17 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Carly Fiorina brings a Texas ranching legacy to the presidential campaign.
And one Texas rancher has come forth to help.
Although she’s known more as a California Republican, Fiorina was born in Austin to the Sneed family, Texans since 1839 and known for oil, cattle ranching, cotton farming and for an early 20th-century love-triangle feud and scandal.
In the 1960s, she grew up spending summers with her grandparents in a historic home in Calvert, between Waco and Bryan.
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In a 2003 Houston speech, Fiorina said, “We had a little bit of cattle in our family, a little bit of oil — emphasis on the word little.”
Clara Sneed has written about a notorious great-uncle, rancher Beal Sneed, and what Texas historians call the “Boyce-Sneed Feud,” including Sneed’s 1912 killing of a former XIT Ranch manager in the lobby of Fort Worth’s long-gone Metropolitan Hotel.
In her out-of-print Because This Is Texas (1999), Clara Sneed describes Beal Sneed’s revenge killings of Albert Boyce of Amarillo and later his son over the son’s affair with Sneed’s wife, Lena.
Beal Sneed was acquitted both times in sensational trials, the first in Fort Worth drawing a huge and brawling crowd of both men and women to the county courthouse.
The Star-Telegram quoted jury foreman J.D. Crane, a farmer, saying the all-male jury sided with the jealous husband “because this is Texas.”
(The Sneeds reunited and died in the 1960s in Dallas.)
More than a century after those storied cases, Texas Republicans are about to meet Carly Sneed Fiorina.
Her father, the late U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Joseph Sneed, came from the cotton-farming side of the family in Calvert. He also cowboyed on Beal Sneed’s ranch before going to Southwestern University in Georgetown and the University of Texas Law School, staying...
(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...
(J.D. Crane, jury foreman, on Beal Sneed’s acquittal in revenge killing over wife’s affair)
Fiorina sings the praises of Islam, Ottoman Empire ‘greatest civilization’
Carly didn’t sucker Lucent and HP for a combined $100 million without learning a trick or two somewhere after she left that ranch.
I have a higher respect for the good people of Texas than to confuse her name with theirs (excepting maybe LBJ).
Title should read...
“Fiorina: A Texan by birth with a BC to prove it”
Yeah, uh, no.
Texan by birth, maybe. A DC establishment player by choice.
Thanks, very interesting. I can’t stand the vitriol here about the various candidates. Not a big Carly fan, but my heavens, people do go on!
I posted this on another thread about her.
Donald Trump accused Carly Fiorina of being a terrible businesswoman. Here are the facts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3338808/posts
Fiorina made a mess at HP: Ken Langone
Ken Langone, Invemed Associates president, shares his thoughts on why Carly Fiorina was fired at Hewlett-Packard and her business experience.
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000422273
This Chart Clears Up Carly Fiorina’s HP Record
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3339010/posts
Sonnenfeld slams Fiorina: ‘Left HP in tatters’ (Yale B-school Prof kills it - video)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3338858/posts
Trump’s Right: Here’s The Proof Carly Fiorina Was A Disaster For HP Shareholders
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3338164/posts
Carly Fiorina: Islamic Civilization was “Greatest in the World”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3322666/posts
Carly Fiorina Attacks Cruz: ‘No Honor’ In Fight To Defund Obamacare
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3322644/posts
Carly Fiorina is open to legal status for adult illegal immigrants, citizenship for their kids
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3322641/posts
Carly Fiorina - Follower of Helegian Dialectics
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3337342/posts
Carly Fiorina is No Conservative Candidate
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3324595/posts
Mark Levin: “National Media Lovefest” Over Carly Fiorina
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3338497/posts
To sum it up:
She loves eternally murderous deathcult known as Islam,
she loves Obamacare (aka Rationed, Collectivized Deathcare),
and she loves illegal aliens invading our country,
and she doesn’t know how to run a bidness.
Lastly, she’s a Leftist (aka Dem, GOP-E, RINO).
She was born in Texas so she must be great and we should elect her? Is this the message here? Really?
Too bad they didn’t keep her in Texas. Everyone wants to go to CA, people like Boxer, Pelosi, Charles Manson etc. CA was mostly destroyed by imports, foreign and domestic. They took the crown jewel of America and subverted and defaced it.
Too bad they didn’t all just stay TF away!
Obviously her detractors here have no appreciaation for Texas women. I lived there for 10 years and found that Texas women are courageous, smart, and don’t take “no” for an answer. They get ahead by working within the system, but have no fear of bucking it when the opportunity arises. Not to mention their creativity and industriousness.
Texans are primarily patriotic to American and don’t tout the virtues of Islam as Carly did.
Not voting for anyone who wants to change the laws to benefit those breaking them.
Don’t care where they were born if they don’t understand the rule of law.
Who wants to change the law to benefit those breaking them? The only person I see doing that is Obama.
I should throw this in.
Carly Fiorina & H.P. Thwarted U.S. Sanctions, Sold $120 Million In Product To Iran
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3339081/posts
Isn’t abortion Barbie also from Texas?
Every person who supports “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” - most of the GOP, including Fiorina, Yeb!, Rubberio, NJFatBoy, Huckster, Pataki, Kasich, Carson
To be more clear, and to base judgment upon character, we should respect Texans as a whole just as much as we should disrespect Carly as an individual.
Islam lover Carly will be casualty of the recent Muslim controversy.
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