Sen. Barbara Boxe lashes out at Carly Fiorina as 'mean-spirited' face of corporate greed

LA Times ^ | 9/18/2015 | Seema Mehta

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Sen. Barbara Boxer lashed out at Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina on Friday, saying that the woman she defeated in 2010 is a “mean-spirited,” failed business leader who cared more about enriching herself than about working Americans.“Here is a woman who ran against me in the worst year Democrats ever had and we won in a landslide because the people of California didn’t want her to do to the country what she did to Hewlett-Packard,” Boxer said. “She’s the face of income inequality and the face of corporate greed…. She makes Mitt Romney look like a Democrat.” Romney was the GOP presidential nominee in 2012.

Fiorina’s campaign responded with a jab at Boxer. “California has the highest poverty rates in the nation under Barbara Boxer's policies. As president, Carly will challenge the status quo that has crushed Americans under the weight and corruption of this government,” said Fiorina spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores.

Boxer said Fiorina enriched herself as the chief of Hewlett-Packard, flying in private planes and buying a yacht as she oversaw the layoff of 30,000 workers, and sent jobs overseas. The senator pointed out that the value of H-P stock dropped sharply before Fiorina was fired. Fiorina has argued that she made difficult decisions that allowed H-P to survive the technology industry recession. Her track record at H-P became the centerpiece of Boxer’s campaign, which the Democrat won by 10 points. “She was tested in a Republican year running against me, who was considered very vulnerable, and she got slaughtered not because of me but because of her,” Boxer said. “Because of her lack of compassion and even caring about working people.” Read the rest at LA Times...

[ronnie raygun]

Boxer said Fiorina enriched herself, and boxer enriched herself via the American taxpayer

[ozzymandus]

Yep. Babs is a real jerk-off. Note the open mouth, also.

[tinamina]

Well I didn’t say there was anything wrong with anything. I just pointed out that she didn’t work herself up from secretary to CEO in the same company. From what I’ve read, Carly worked as a secretary for six months at a real estate office in Palo Alto to help pay for her business degree.
She worked her way up in sales at ATT to President of some part of Lucent before being recruited by HP.

[Impy]

"Good for Boxer "

When Barbara Boxer passes away, that will be the first and only good thing she's ever done.