Posted on 09/25/2015 4:40:01 AM PDT by jimbo123
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“I started as a secretary, typing and filing for a nine-person real estate firm. It’s only in this country that you can go from being a secretary to chief executive of the largest tech company in the world, and run for president of the United States. It’s only possible here.”
— Business executive Carly Fiorina (R), interview on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Sept. 21, 2015
“My story, from secretary to CEO, is only possible in this nation, and proves that everyone of us has potential.”
— Fiorina, second GOP debate, Sept. 16, 2015
“A self-made woman, she started her business career as a secretary and went on to become the first, and to date, the only woman to lead a Fortune 20 company.”
— Fiorina’s biography on her 2010 campaign Web site for U.S. Senate seat in California
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Related:
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
I probably won’t vote for Fiorina in the primary, but you have to live how she scares the ah!t out of the pantywaists at the Washington post.
She went from the second stringers table at the debates to one being asked most of the questions as the 2nd debate.
Meanwhile others who had been polling higher got snubbed by Jake Tapper.
I suspect it is a “don’t throw me in that briar patch” kind of scared. Come on! A Southern California pubbies is just barely north of Che.
Fiorina is a failure. I’d vote for Hillary or Sanders or Biden before I’d ever vote for her. Okay, I’d sit out the vote. Fiorina is a disaster walking. Killed American companies, killed American jobs.
sitting out = Sanders Clinton or Biden so whats the dif
Does she thinks the American people are too dumb to do any Internet research ?
BLATANT LIAR - no surprise, given her horse face.
Not much different than saying you went from dishwasher to CEO because you had a job washing dishes in college.
Nice to see her REAL STORY starting to come out.
You don't take on a scared cow Plan Parenthood without MSM and friends going after her.
The Barbara Boxer File is all over the Internet.
Her associations with Hillary and Abortion Group she headed.
So no other CEO ever started out washing dishes or working in a mail room as a teenager?
HAH !
Yep, she’s Goldman Sachs. Same old, globalist elite crowd. No wonder she introduces no innovations.
It’s way too early to pick a winner. With Walker out, Of the bunch I happened to favor Cruz but I’m open minded and we should be supporting conservatives.
HP seems to have some internal problems which makes marketing of its product line unsucessful. They just announced the reduction of 30,000 from its work force. And this time Carly isn’t at the helm.
If they had sustained gtowth without resorting to these radical shifts after she left I submit there would be some valid reason to cite her management skills as an excuse not to support her. But they obviously haven’t.
Better than Fiorina.
“I went from soiling my diaper to running for president of the United States!”
Her Husband a ATT Executive got her the position at Lucent.
Not any other way like going from Secretary of or from the Mail Room.
Frank Fiorina has been at his wife’s side since then, serving as her bodyguard while she was HP’s CEO and when she ran for the U.S. Senate in 2010 against California Sen. Barbara Boxer. Frank, who is in his mid-60s and retired from AT&T at age 48 to travel with his wife and take care of his two daughters from a previous marriage, received a concealed carry permit in 2000, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
More today:
Fiorina had that job-killing touch
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3341013/posts
Choice quotes from the link provided:
Fiorina opposition research report "As a surrogate for John McCain's campaign, Fiorina was essentially kicked off the McCain campaign when she said that neither John McCain nor Sarah Palin could run a major corporation."
***** Fiorina Named 19th Worst CEO of ALL Time. In May 2009, Portfolio compiled lists of the 20 best and 20 worst CEOs ever. Fiorina was 19th on the "Worst CEOs" list, with the magazine writing, "A consummate self-promoter, Fiorina was busy pontificating on the lecture circuit and posing for magazine covers while her company floundered. She paid herself handsome bonuses and perks while laying off thousands of employees to cut costs. The merger Fiorina orchestrated with Compaq in 2002 was widely seen as a failure. She was ousted in 2005." Portfolio also noted that HP stock lost half its value while Fiorina was CEO. [Porfolio, 5/09]
* California Democratic Party: Fiorina One of the Worst CEOs. In response to a February 2010 report from the San Jose Mercury News on HP, the California Democratic Party issued a release noting, "Fiorina was named by Portfolio Magazine as one of the 20 worst CEO's of all time, MSN named her one of the worst CEO's, and VNUNet.com named her one of the 10 worst Technology CEO's." [States News Service, 2/16/10]Fiorina's Tenure a "Reign of Terror." Commenting on Fiorina's time as HP's CEO, Yale School of Management Jeffrey Sonnenfeld said, "She walked into a fundamentally sound, healthy, vibrant company and had a disastrous tour of duty. She sliced shareholder wealth in half and had a reign of terror that was infamous for its scape-goating, finger-pointing culture." Sonnenfeld added that Mark Hurd, Fiorina's successor, was the reason the HP/Compaq merger worked. [Associated Press, 11/5/09]
Fiorina Eavesdropped on HP Board Members. After Fiorina's departure from Hewlett-Packard, it was discovered that Fiorina had eavesdropped on board members in an effort to stop boardroom leaks, laying the groundwork for HP's pre-texting scandal. [Pensito Review, 11/10/09; Silicon Valley Sleuth, 8/18/09] Voted Most Brand-Damaging CEO. A worldwide poll of information technology executives found Fiorina to be the most brand-damaging CEO. [The Australian, 1/8/02]
Another item worthy of mention given the above detail she was fired from the McCain campaign:
There are rumors floating that she climbed Step 1 of the ladder on her back.
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