I have no use for Fiorina, but if she was “The daughter of the dean of Duke Law School, and top Nixon advisor, she took a part-time job as a secretary, while in law school, and then was put on the management track at AT&T.” Then she in fact did go from secretary to CEO. WHo knows? She might have been a decent secretary. There are other folks born into families of influence who would not have taken such a position in the first place.
It is a known fact that organs used for harvesting are better if still alive when taken. If Fiorina messed up on attribution (and I won’t take HuffPo’s word on it) that is a minimal transgression.
Almost every candidate had a job during teenage years as newspaper delivery kid, or mowing neighbor’s lawn, or working in a fast food.
That candidate can not then say he/she went from hamburger flipping to become a US senator. We can all make such lofty claims!
The fact is, Fiorina was NOT put on the management track at AT&T because of her part time job as secretary while going to law school. It was because of her father’s connections and her law degree.