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TexasTowelie

(112,321 posts) Tue May 5, 2015, 10:51 PM May 2015

The Carly Fiorina Leadership File

Carly Fiorina officially launched her presidential campaign with an appearance Monday on Good Morning America and a video called “Meet Carly” that she published on her website.

Fiorina doesn’t have a long political track record, aside from a failed run for the U.S. Senate in 2010. So she’s running on her record as a business executive at AT&T and Lucent, and later as the chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard.

To cut to the chase: Fiorina was fired from HP because she did a bad job. She also hasn’t held a major corporate position since she was pushed out of the company in 2005.

Fiorina is spinning a story that she was a victim of sexism at HP. In a recent interview with the Hill she wouldn’t say outright that she was fired because she’s a woman. But she said that there's “no question that women in positions of authority are scrutinized differently, criticized differently and characterized different.”

Read more: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-05-05/the-carly-fiorina-leadership-file

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The Carly Fiorina Leadership File (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2015 OP

HP's current CEO is a woman Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2015 #1

Oh great! Another Republican Female candidate playing the victim card. Marie Marie May 2015 #2

Fiorina Has High Name Recognition Among Thousands She Fired Zorro May 2015 #3

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,101 posts)

1. HP's current CEO is a woman

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2015, 10:57 PM

May 2015

Remember Meg Whitman?

Marie Marie

(9,999 posts)

2. Oh great! Another Republican Female candidate playing the victim card.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2015, 11:30 PM

May 2015

Carly, Sarah has already played this to death.

Zorro

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3. Fiorina Has High Name Recognition Among Thousands She Fired

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2015, 12:06 AM

May 2015

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—One day after the former Hewlett-Packard C.E.O. Carly Fiorina announced her candidacy for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination, a new poll shows that she enjoys extremely high name recognition among the tens of thousands of former H.P. employees she fired.

According to the poll, conducted by the University of Minnesota’s Opinion Research Institute, Fiorina’s name recognition stands at a hundred per cent among the legions of employees she terminated, with many of them calling the former C.E.O. “unforgettable.”

Additionally, a broad majority of the laid-off workers described their feelings about Fiorina as “intense,” and noted that very few days go by when they do not invoke her name in a vehement manner.

Davis Logsdon, who supervised the survey for the University of Minnesota, said that Fiorina’s entry into the Republican race had “energized” many former H.P. employees.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/fiorina-has-high-name-recognition-among-thousands-she-fired

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