Posted on 06/29/2010 6:21:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON — Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina said Tuesday that she opposes a ban on assault weapons and supports a U.S. Supreme Court decision this week affirming a constitutional right to bear arms.
In a 45-minute question-and-answer session with reporters here, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO also repeated her backing of Arizona's controversial immigration law and said she would support efforts to repeal the federal health care reform measure. But the fundamental issue in the race against three-term Sen. Barbara Boxer, Fiorina contended, will be whom voters trust more on the economy, and she said the contrast between the two could not be more stark.
"It's an election about our vision of the country going forward," Fiorina said. "Is it about big entitlements, high taxes and thick regulations, or is it about empowering and enabling the folks who create most of the jobs?"
In response, Boxer's campaign said the contrast is between a former CEO representing the interests of big business against a senator fighting for middle-class Californians.
After a commanding victory in the Republican primary earlier this month, Fiorina faces a tougher battle to unseat Boxer, who enjoys a sizable edge in voter registration in the heavily Democratic state, in addition to a large fundraising lead. Fiorina loaned her campaign $5.5 million during the primary race but declined to say how much more she is prepared to spend on her general election bid. ..
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Fiorina covered mostly familiar ground in the meeting with reporters, but it was the first time she offered an opinion on an assault weapons ban, which is currently in place in California but could be challenged in response to the Supreme Court ruling. Fiorina won an endorsement from the National Rifle Association during the primary, and her husband owns several guns.
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Simple:
1) When you offshore jobs - and just put those people out on the street - you decrease the strength of the US, and increase the strength of the foreign country. Those foreign countries usually don't hold the same values, and certainly haven't fought and paid for freedom, like U.S. citizens.
2) As a CEO, you are both a manager for the shareholders, but you are also a leader of a team. Good team leaders help other team members pull themselves up. Bad team leaders empower themselves at the expense of others.
Also, good team leaders recognize that the other team member's high-tech professional job isn't - by the reality of the situation - some clock-punching operation. It involves dedication of most of one's life, in time and focus, to the benefit of the company, usually at the expense of one's family & personal time, and often your health.
To repay such dedication, by farming out the job WHERE YOU MADE A PROFIT FOR YOUR COMPANY to another country - without giving you a chance to retrain or re-org for better productivity - is to betray the sacrifices you and your family have made. For the "team leader" to turn around after that is done, and richly reward herself, may be legal, but it is, in this context, unjust.
At least this shows she is smart enough to see which way the wind blows.
The choices are Fiorina Vs Boxer. I will vote for Fiorina, all of your analysis might have done some good before the primaries, it is useless now as there is no one to take Carly’s place.
True. But so far she's speaking the right words, and hasn't 'tacked' to the left after the Primaries... Unlike the Gov candidate (Whitman), who after talking tough about illegal immigration the day before the Primary, started bad-mouthing the Arizona law almost immediately after she won the nomination.
I don't know if Fiorina will walk the walk, but at least she's talking the talk - which is a damn sight better than most of the politicians in this State.
You’re absolutely right. Arnold is a shame. I wish it had been McClintock.
That said, when compared to boxer she’s a win.
We have to take them how we get them.
I’m from IL (pronounced - “Ill”)
Carly has always supported the 2nd Amendment. She is a life-long gun owner.
Carly has always supported the 2nd Amendment. She is a life-long gun owner.
Obviously, worth repeating.
Only among leftist Silicon Valley execs
her actions as CEO point to tendencies to look at herself as a "better" and not a fellow common citizen, which is exactly the disease that infects the Senate in general;
Please explain the actions. The software sold to Iran? That was done before she became CEO. The necessary cost-cutting and merger with Compaq to make HP stronger in the long-run?
and she said she probably would have voted for confirmation of Sotomayor, if she had the chance.
Pure speculation that borders on bovine feces. You don't know what she would have done. All indications point to a solid center-right Republican that has the advantage over Boxer.
I would too if corporate taxes are in the high 30% percentile.
Oh God, not this again - HP IS A US, CALIFORNIA BASED COMPANY. IF THEY MAKE HIGHER PROFITS DUE TO LOWER LABOR COSTS, THEY PAY MORE IN TAXES!
I may have to hold my nose and vote for Fiorina, but the Carly-bots make me ill.
That's what Carly said herself, you big dope.
In what would turn out to be the biggest news emerging from the breakfast, Fiorina said that, while she did not study Sonia Sotomayor in great deal (“I was battling cancer at the time”), she probably would have “voted for her” confirmation to the Supreme Court.
Source: Human Events, Ronald Reagan's favorite magazine.
Like I said before, Carly-bots make me ill.
As I said, talk is cheap. Have you read this gem today?:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2544129/posts
“Carly has always supported the 2nd Amendment. She is a life-long gun owner.”
I stand corrected. Thanks.
The CEO has to focus on the big picture, make the tough decisions and and answer to the stockholders, NOT get bogged down in the minutia of day to day operations.
-btw Does your concern for 'employees' extend to the public sector as well?
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