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Showing Original Post only (View all)LA Times: "What non-Californians don't know about Carly Fiorina -- but should" [View all]
Here are some key excerpts from the great article:
she had failed to cast a ballot in 75% of the California elections for which she was an eligible voter. She missed presidential primaries in 2000 and 2004, and the primary and general elections in 2006, including a Senate reelection run by Democrat Dianne Feinstein. She skipped the primary and general elections in 2002, a gubernatorial election year, as well as the historic recall vote that brought Arnold Schwarzenegger to the governor's seat.
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She was CEO of Hewlett-Packard from mid-1999 to early 2005, a period in which the company's stock sank 49% to 60% (depending on how you count), making it one of the worst-performing high-tech firms.
CEO Fiorina talked a lot about "innovation" while pursuing corporate strategies displaying a striking lack of imagination. She cut HP's payroll by 10,000 employees in 2000 while surrounding her glamorous self with clouds of image and strategy consultants.
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She blames the California drought on "liberal environmentalists," which is about as uninformed as one can get about water in the West but fits seamlessly with GOP orthodoxy.
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LA Times: "What non-Californians don't know about Carly Fiorina -- but should" [View all]
Attorney in Texas
Aug 2015
OP
Carly Fiorina will run for president as a successful tech CEO. Silicon Valley says that's a fantasy.
avaistheone1
Aug 2015
#2
What Californians don't know about Carly Fiorina: She bailed on wimpy California...
Brother Buzz
Aug 2015
#3
and her Caltech speech is exactly what you'd expect from someone with a BA in medieval lit
MisterP
Aug 2015
#6
one of the 1st things HP did when they took over Compaq was raid DEC's pension fund
magical thyme
Aug 2015
#20
Hmmm ... a sharp-tongued VP candidate with no real political experience. How could that go wrong?
Attorney in Texas
Aug 2015
#14
One person I'm friends with says he trusts Chainsaw Carly because she's a successful executive.
HughBeaumont
Aug 2015
#13
If she wants to do for the United States what she did for HP all I have to say is this...
LynneSin
Aug 2015
#17
one of my best friends also worked there during chainsaw carly's tenure. she had to train
niyad
Aug 2015
#37
Was she saying income equality was a big problem because there was not enough inequality or too much
Attorney in Texas
Aug 2015
#31