What Carly Fiorina's Failed Senate Race Says About Her Presidential Campaign

IBT ^ | 9/23/15 | Abigail Abrams

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As Carly Fiorina gains increased media attention and ramps up her presidential campaign after her strong performance in the second Republican debate last week, she may still be struggling to overcome the obstacles that led to her defeat the only previous time she sought elected office.

While Fiorina has billed herself as an "outsider" candidate, she does have political experience -- she just wasn’t successful. Her 2010 campaign to unseat U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer in California saw fierce campaigning (she’s often remembered for the “demon sheep” ad) and pressure on Fiorina to defend her business record before the former Hewlett-Packard CEO eventually lost.

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During her 2010 campaign, Fiorina was hit hard by ads from Boxer that criticized her laying off of 30,000 employees at Hewlett-Packard, as well as Fiorina’s own firing when the company's stock price dropped.

“The entire rationale for Carly Fiorina’s candidacy in 2010 and her candidacy today is her record at HP,” said Rose Kapolczynski, Boxer’s longtime campaign manager. “Some of her personal story is appealing to voters, or it was then. … But when they saw her record, they were disgusted.”

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Fiorina’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

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[Vigilanteman]

Carly was at least smart enough to get hired by HP in the first place. A clear majority of the California electorate, OTOH, is dumb enough to keep re-electing Dumb as Boxer of rocks.

[manc]

failed business woman, failed run at politics.

[HarleyLady27]

EVERYTHING!!!!

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “Carly was at least smart enough to get hired by HP in the first place” <<

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They acquired her by default when they bought the company she was with. They were stuck with her inflated contract.
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[IM2MAD]

She put off paying a dozen or so of her campaign staff, almost half a million, for 4 years. Finally paid them just before she announced her run for president.

[Ziva]

What really disturbed me about Carly in the debate was her trying to grab sympathy for having “buried a child to drug addiction.”

This is a gross deception. The “child” was Lori Fiorino, her step-daughter. The girl lived full-time with her mother after her parents divorce when she was ten. I’m sure Carly did forge a relationship with her step-daughter, but she did NOT raise the girl.

Second, the step-daughter died when she was 34 or 35 from alcohol and prescription drug abuse. Of course, it was a tragedy, but that was not the impression Carly was creating.

Carly’s claim that she “buried a child to drug addiction” creates the false impression that her own child died from illegal drugs in high school or college. This was a blatant attempt at manipulation with misleading statements. I cannot respect her for taking us for fools.

A more accurate claim would be “I buried my stepchild, my husband Frank’s daughter, to drug addiction, when she was in her thirties.”

But that would not have had the effect she wanted. She really showed a lack of respect for both Lori and her bio-mother.

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/real-life/homewrecker-carly-fiorina-lied-about-druggie-daughter
http://skewednews.net/index.php/2015/09/19/carly-fiorinas-sleazy-revealing-lie-dead-daughter/

[CutePuppy]

They acquired her by default when they bought the company she was with. They were stuck with her inflated contract.

Would you care to name the company that HP bought where she had the "inflated contract"? Because HP did not buy Lucent, where she was President of a very successful $19B division (that's larger than most S&P 500 companies)?

Instead, HP board was looking for someone with a record of success to replace CEO Lewis Platt and revive moribund sales in a company with a bloated headcount of labor force and stale commoditized products in the increasingly competitive markets, and voted unanimously on hiring her and the compensation / exit package. (see Lucent Technologies Inc. flowchart and Carly Fiorina as a boss: The disappointing truth).

During her 2010 campaign, Fiorina was hit hard by ads from Boxer that criticized her laying off of 30,000 employees at Hewlett-Packard,...

You know what else she "was hit hard by" at the time? Breast cancer, chemotherapy (and receding hair as a result), and the death of her stepdaughter who died of drug overdose...

Not to mention that she ran in California where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2:1 and have nearly super-majority legislature and where people elected Jerry "moonbeam" Brown as their Governor (again).

So what does any of this say about anything, except that another liberal writer is trying to paint a picture from distorted and/or omitted facts?