Fiorina was unaware that her campaign was out of money

[UCmeNdc]

Famed California pollster Joe Shumate was found dead in his home one month before Election Day 2010, surrounded by sheets of polling data he labored over for the flailing Senate bid of Carly Fiorina.

Upon his death, Fiorina praised Shumate as “the heart and soul” of her team. She issued a news release praising him as a person who believed in “investing in those he worked with” and offering her “sincerest condolences” to his widow.

But records show there was something that Fiorina did not offer his widow: Shumate’s last paycheck, for at least $30,000. It was one of more than 30 invoices, totaling about $500,000, that the multimil­lionaire didn’t settle — even as Fiorina reimbursed herself nearly $1.3 million she lent the campaign. She finally cleared most of the balance in January, a few months before announcing her run for president.

“Occasionally, I’d call and tell her she should pay them,” said Martin Wilson, Fiorina’s former campaign manager, who found Shumate after the pollster collapsed from a heart attack. “She just wouldn’t.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/carly-fiorinas-first-political-campaign-had-a-surprising-problem-money/2015/10/04/c4bdcdd2-50be-11e5-933e-7d06c647a395_story.html

[JNelson6563]

1. The dead cost nothing.

~Ẽdward Longhanks in Braveheart

[Iggo]

12. The Longshanks from Braveheart was a motherfucker.

Total badass.

[Scuba]

2. The "heart and soul" of Fiorina's campaign died of a heart attack. Telling.

[dembotoz]

3. maybe that is what she also did at hp

only the jobs died

[randome]

4. Oh, well, back to worshiping Satan, I guess.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Precision and concision. That's the game.[/center][/font][hr]

[Gothmog]

5. Fiorina is a bad business person

[GliderGuider]

23. Take out the word "business" and you've got it. nt

[KamaAina]

6. Fiorina was unaware that HP was out of money, too

[JackRiddler]

11. So she's consistent!

[underpants]

17. She thought they could just print more money

on one of those fancy HP printers. Only problem was they'd run out of ink in the toner cartridge and DAMMIT those things are expensive. It was a catch-22.

[KamaAina]

18. Thread win!

[Yavin4]

22. Funniest post of the year!

I'm calling it for underpants!

[Brother Buzz]

24. LOL, that's totally DUzy worthy!

[malaise]

29. DUzy

[Lizzie Poppet]

7. Oh, but we need business leader candidates...for their financial expertise.

[riderinthestorm]

8. $500k invested for 6 yrs in one of the greatest bull runs

Netted her a fortune.

Her serfs should be glad she finally paid them their salary she withheld for the past six years. In her eyes they probably should be grateful as though it was in their best interests for her to invest their $$ for her financial gain.

[tabasco]

9. Just imagine what this thieving shyster would do to the USA

Really, you can say the same thing for all the republican candidates.

[Whiskeytide]

10. Surely someone showed showed her...

... a video tape of the books, right? How could she remember that wrongly?

[marym625]

13. Wow!

Just, wow

[SoapBox]

14. She's a scoundrel.

I wouldn't trust her with my trash.

[thesquanderer]

15. Killer quote: “If we didn’t win, why do you deserve to get paid?"

How about "because we provided the goods/services you asked for"?

Wow.

[gratuitous]

25. While she walked away from the smoking ruin of H-P with $21 million

I believe President Clinton would say that takes a lot of brass.

[BuelahWitch]

27. "If our company lost money on your watch, why do you deserve to get paid?"

I've often wondered why CEOs get paid so much for failing.

[muriel_volestrangler]

28. I just saw someone else quote that. That ought to be a campaign killer

Those who waited the longest to be paid were small businesses with a few dozen employees who did the grunt work of the campaign: building stages, sending out mailers, selling polling data. And at least one is still waiting.
...
Fiorina, through a spokeswoman, declined to comment. Her supporters say the criticism was misplaced.

“People are just upset and angry and throwing her under the bus,” said Jon Cross, Fiorina’s operations director for her Senate campaign. “If we didn’t win, why do you deserve to get paid? If you don’t succeed in business, you shouldn’t be the first one to step up and complain about getting paid.”

So there you are, the Republican mentality perfectly expressed: the multi-millionaire walks away from a failure unscathed, leaving the average schmuck who naively did business with her to take the loss. It's worse than Romney's disdain for the 47%.

[thesquanderer]

30. Moral of the story...

at least according to John Cross, seem to be...

"You extended credit to a candidate? Sucker! With business acumen like that, you deserve to lose your money!"

Meanwhile, while he says the guy who built the stage or whatever--who was not hired to make her win, but just to do a job that he did--doesn't deserve to get paid, while John Cross, whose job was actually to get her to win, probably walked away with plenty, which I'm sure he's not giving back.

[Rex]

16. A special place in the abyss for people like Fiorina.

And it is completely fair to both genders. Both get to rot in the lowest parts.

[Laxman]

19. I Suppose She Is Also Unaware...

that her campaign is out of ideas or policies as well. Financially, morally and intellectually bankrupt -she's hit the republican trifecta!

[mhatrw]

20. So The HP Way wasn't all she killed? n/t

[lunatica]

21. Everything I hear about her makes her more and more hateful

I can't think of a single factual complimentary thing about her that I've ever heard.

[randys1]

26. And not one person, not one, on the right, will either hear about this or believe it

when they do.

And if they did believe it, wont matter.

The uglier, meaner, more corrupt you are, the more the base will like you.