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Carly Fiorina Taking On Barbara Boxer for Senate Seat

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Posted on Nov 4, 2009
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Watch your back, Boxer: Carly Fiorina, pictured, says she doesn’t think Sen. Barbara Boxer has done the best job during her 18 years in office.

She admits she hasn’t always been a true believer in our country’s electoral system, but former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is now hoping to become a major player in the U.S. political arena by challenging longtime California Sen. Barbara Boxer for her congressional seat in 2010.  —KA

Carly Fiorina in the Orange County Register:

I look at the United States Senate and ask: does California have the representation we deserve? The clear answer is no.  Barbara Boxer has been a senator for almost 18 years.

During that time, she’s only gotten three laws enacted - naming a river in Virginia, a courthouse in Fresno, and bringing bridge repair money to the Bay Area, where she is from.  One piece of real work in 18 years isn’t much of a track record.

That’s not good enough for California.

Admittedly, I have not always been engaged in the electoral process, and I should have been. For many years I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn’t think my vote mattered because I didn’t have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

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By DieDaily, November 6 at 2:11 am #

You should check out the Wiki on Fiorina (not the
article, the talk page…it’s hilarious, some Fiorina
apologist has stymied the whole process repeatedly and
gotten away with it!...enter political operative…he
won’t even admit the language the Fiorina was totally
fired, fired, fired…he actually want to soften the
wording to “resigned”...)

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By don knutsen, November 5 at 7:35 pm #
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From what I’ve read of her reign at HP she seems a perfect fit for the republican party. A complete lack of empathy for the very peopple she is supposedly representing and a self serving greed without bounds. Isn’t that the prerequisite to become a leader in the republican party ? It unfortunately works for the other party as well all too often. I wouldn’t hold out any hope for the truth coming out via our wonderful media to educate the voters however. They’ve proven over the last decade, that the current crop of rich republican profit seekers at any cost, and there is only about 6 in control of it all now, have no interest at all in informing us of anything except Balloon Boy, drunken celeb.s and Karl Rove’s or Lynn Cheney’s opinion.

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By Leefeller, November 5 at 2:29 pm #

Maybe she would qualify to clean up after elephants?

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By faith, November 5 at 1:57 pm #

Ms. Fiorini:  HP CEO who sullied the good reputation of HP.  Isn’t this the same
woman who decided to fire thousands of loyal HP employees?  Isn’t this the same
woman who after letting go those employees took a multimillion dollar severance
package and left HP floundering?
I hope she does run for Senate.  When the public is reminded of her self serving
leadership and the cost of American employment there will be cause for pause. 
How arrogant - she honestly thinks with her corporate leadership that she is
qualified to run for political office?

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By Leefeller, November 5 at 1:47 pm #

ChaoticGood,

You mean Freddy Kruger, Jack the ripper supposedly killed prostitutes, unless your sweet 16 party is of a different nature. Though, politicians as a whole, could seem to suggest either, Jack or Freddy as role models.

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By Samson, November 5 at 12:28 pm #

Ps ....

What we really need is two things.  One is for Ms. Carly to run strong enough to make it a close race.

The other is a strong, independent pro-peace, pro-single payer candidate in the General Election. 

When the last takes so many votes away from Miss Corporate Democrat, she’ll come begging to us asking ‘what do we want?’ to get out of the race and let her keep her feudal Senate seat.

When she comes asking ‘what do we want?’, that’s the day we start to get a bit of what we want.  Want to end the war?  Want single-payer?  That’s how to do it.  Make miss corporate democrat come begging to us to keep her job.

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By Samson, November 5 at 12:25 pm #

Just what we need.  A corporate CEO in the Senate.

Was she the HP exec who got caught spying on people a year or so ago?

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By Hulk2008, November 5 at 11:46 am #

Lest we forget, Carly was John McCain’s campaign economic adviser at one point - and was given the boot similarly to the way HP ditched her.  She stated that none of the presidential candidates (including McCain) had any notion of finance.  Of course, HP gave her a multi-million-dollar going away present.  (I have never quite figured out how CEOs get such huge checks for being inept. HP’s stock price dropped by half under her “leadership”.)  60 Minutes even did an interview with former HP head/board member Tom Perkins who was instrumental in dumping Carly - the gist was that Carly was less than useful at HP.  Conde Nast magazine listed her among “The 20 Worst CEOs Of All Time” and industry rags printed similar assessments of her abilities. 
  Some would say that “cream rises to the top”.  Others might say that “effluvient floats”.

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By 3744theron, November 5 at 11:32 am #
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Carly “Americans have no god-given right to jobs” Fiorina—please, please, please, bring it on, bring it on.  She would expose the Republican filth as exactly what they are—anti-American globalists.  U.S. corporations, created through the American infrastructure (education, economic, transportation, etc.), have turned their back on the U.S., biting the hand that fed and nursed them.

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By DieDaily, November 5 at 10:01 am #

Oh dear…that illusion of choice again. Shall we vote
frying pan or fire? On the one hand we have the
cheerful nonentity Boxer, and on the other, the
profoundly corrupt wrecker of industry and globalist
tool Fiorina. What a dilemma.

Anyone for an independent candidate? Or maybe just
spoil your ballot. If forced at gunpoint to pick one of
the other, I would simply go with the “virtually anyone
other than Fiorina”! Boxer may not be quite the hard
hitter, but at least she’s not pure evil.

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By ChaoticGood, November 5 at 4:30 am #

OMG, I hope the Republicans really get behind Carli.  She will really show the whole country how to make America better.  Its like inviting “Jackie the Ripper” to your sweet sixteen party.
What a hoot….

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By Robert, November 5 at 3:36 am #
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I saw her give one interview, the interviewer caught her out in a major lie, Carly without the slightest shame looked the reporter right in the eye and repeated the lie. When the reporter detailed what Carly has said was a lie and pointed out the truth, Carly again with absolutely no shame repeated the lie yet again as if it was the truth. The interviewer gave Carly a dumbfounded look and pointed out what Carly was doing, Carly a natural born liar, didn’t blink and again repeated the lie as if it was the truth. If people are stupid enough to vote for such a deceitful and disingenuous person they deserve to suffer under the self serving corruption she undoubtedly bring to politics.

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By P. T., November 4 at 10:51 pm #

Let’s hope she doesn’t do to California and the country what she did to Hewlett-Packard.

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