Her website touts her experience leading HP, doubling its revenue and expanding it from the 28th to the 11th largest US Company. It neglects to say that she doubled its debt in tandem.
The Peter principle says that people will rise to the level above which they are qualified. She managed to go well above that despite clear evidence of failure along the way.
“managers rise to the level of their incompetence.”
“Only in the United States of America can a young woman start as a secretary and work to become Chief Executive of one of the largest technology companies in the world.
Yes, if you are a secretary from an affluent, well-connected family who earns college and law school degrees. A secretary without those credentials, not so much.
Lucent was a disaster and a fraud. We can do a lot better than Fiorina.
Carly said When you criminalize drug abuse, youre actually not treating it. We had a daughter who died of addictions, so this lands very close to home for me.
Rehab can certainly help some people, but her step-daughter Lori was in rehab three times. Her father was quite wealthy and could afford it, and yet it appears rehab did not save her.
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. Im 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 from alcohol, prescription drug abuse and bulimia after a marriage and divorce. Of course, it was a tragedy, but that was not the impression Carly was creating. The woman did not die from abuse of illegal drugs.
Carlys 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 Franks daughter, to bulimia, alcohol, and prescription 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.
FReeper beaversmom said it even more clearly in another thread. I believe Fiorina used her adult step-daughters death as a political prop. To convey clout on the subject. To garner sympathy. To score political points. To stop the discussion. Who can argue with her after that? Whos gonna have the balls? SHE buried HER daughter.
I knew at the time of the debate it was her step-daughter, but I didnt know her step daughters death was from legal drugs. And she didnt BURY her. She was an ADULT step-daughter. It sounds like the daughter was primarily raised by her biological mom. The step-daughter was married. CF did not bury her. She left out some of this because it wasnt convenient for her narrative. It wouldnt have gotten her as many points if she gave the full picture.
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/
Fiorina opposition research report
Here is the 218-page opposition research report on Carly Fiorina compiled by political research firm Gragert Jones for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in April 2010.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/280494704/Fiorina-opposition-research-report