Posted on 09/18/2015 9:26:59 PM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
Multimillionaire Carly Fiorina Took 4 Years to Pay Staffers From Her Last Campaign
Why was this wealthy GOP presidential candidate a deadbeat?
—By Sam Brodey | Tue May 12, 2015 10:37 AM EDT
Carly Fiorina, the Republican presidential candidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO, is marketing herself as a pragmatic, fiscally responsible businesswoman—the only GOP candidate who knows, as she says, "how the economy actually works." Yet during her unsuccessful US Senate bid in 2010, her opponents slammed her record at HP. When she led the firm, it laid off 18,000 workers, and its stock declined by 41 percent. Eventually, she was forced out of the company but departed with a $21 million golden parachute. Now she may need to answer for another managerial blunder. For more than four years, she was a deadbeat and didn't pay the bills she owed for her Senate campaign. She only settled these outstanding debts just before she jumped into the 2016 race.
(Excerpt) Read more at motherjones.com ...
Of course maybe the pols want an out where they are prohibited from paying back on their own...I’d like to, but I can’t defense. lol
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