Fiorina takes initial step to challenge Boxer

Source: CNN

(CNN) — Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is taking the initial steps to challenge California Democrat Barbara Boxer for her Senate seat, a move that could lay the groundwork for one of the most high profile and expensive contests of 2010.

Fiorina, the first woman to lead a Fortune 500 company and a former surrogate for John McCain's presidential bid, filed a tax identification number and registered a campaign committee with the IRS Tuesday called "Carly for California."

"The people of California have serious concerns about job creation, economic growth and the role of government in solving problems that touch each of ourlives," Fiorina said in a statement. "I have received a great deal of encouragement to make a run for the Senate in 2010 from people across the political spectrum because these are all issues that need focused attention in Washington, D.C."

Under the new committee, Fiorina will begin to aggressively raise money as well as speak with policy experts and campaign advisors, spokeswoman Beth Miller told CNN.

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Fiorina is considering a run for the Senate.

:puke:

is the GOP thinking? I don't think anyone likes this woman outside the very top of corporate America. I would be surprised if she could even win a GOP primary.

to be replaced with Ahnold and since then their economy has completely tanked. It would not surprise me one bit if they elected this woman. They are not "all there" in California.

was an obscenity who did himself in first...

He was a coward about crime and punishment -- pro-death, pro-lock-em-up, bought and paid for by the prison guard's so-called "union"...

He was a wimp about the phony electrical "crisis" created by Enron, PG&E, et. al. He sold the farm on that one!

He vetoed a lot of good legislation for human rights, justice, etc.

He was the best Republican-Lite money could buy...

So, with Mr. Car Alarm, Darrel Issa's milllions backing him, the other fake, republican-lite the SteroidenGroppenFuhrer was installed -- to do the exact same shit from the "R" side.

in the head.

But he became president.

unhappy today than we are. There is something about her that sways people into believing she is more than her resume would indicate.

Seriously, she is talking about "the people of California have serious concerns about job creation", yet she fired how many people when she was the head of HP?

The first one would not even power on. The second had some other major problem. This was in 03, maybe 04 when CarLIE was at the helm of HP. I've never bought another again.

I finally got a Sony Vaio, which has never crashed in the 6 yrs. I've owned it.

she was at the helm of their company.

...they basically credited her with destroying the corporate culture and HP's reputation as "one of the best companies to work for."

I did a temp stint at HP while she was there...never saw her during that time...and the first word that comes to mind when describing the day-to-day mood of the place is "sour." Lots and lots and lots of very unhappy worker bees.

It was a very depressing and stressful environment while I worked there as a consultant, fixing outsurced code that the contractor had "Lost the Source Code". That place was a disaster.

eh, that'd be kind of unfair, though, as that all occurred only after Fiorina was forced out as CEO.

But hey, stock did rise considerably in the hours after she was ousted, by as much 10.5 percent! But let's hear from a Wall Street analyst for why that happened:

"The stock is up a bit on the fact that nobody liked Carly's leadership all that much," said Robert Cihra, an analyst with Fulcrum Global Partners. "The Street had lost all faith in her and the market's hope is that anyone will be better."



An account of Fiorina's whole wondrous saga as the head of a Fortune 500 company can be found here:

http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/09/technology/hp_fiorina/

my friend not only lost her job, but before leaving had to go down to Costa Rica to teach two barely-English-speaking people to do her job. Yeah - Carly is for job creation...in other countries!!

I will fight for Boxer with money and time.

They'll be great for showing what she is about.

which was both off-topic and hasn't flown with any medieval historian since, what 1950? I think she yakked about science training to compete with a globalized world (or we could have tariffs)
she's indistinguishable from Feinstein, but probably has less blood on her hands

:rofl:

If Californians' concerns are real, they won't elect her.






Google "No American has a God-given right to a job" and you'll have all the proof you ever wanted.

know half the HP products she produced as CEO of HP really were just chit.

Her campaign and her words are just the same type of product. Bound to FAIL in less than 2 years.

fWho is she running against? Is someone leaving the Senate from Calif ??

Yes, really.

:D

to be his "henchwoman".

she was the worst CEO in Fortune 500 history.

And her "surrogate" work for McCain last year was simply horrible. Neocons don't like her, fundies don't like her, even old school fiscal conservatives don't like her. What the hell is her "base"?

HP was a legend here, thanks to Bill and Dave. Fortunately, they're dead so they can't see what she did to the company they founded and nurtured.

Didn't she work for Lucent before HP? Another company run into the ground.

I was shocked at how much of an idiot Fiorina is when she was making the rounds on tv during the election. Just shocked.

She's a complete moron. Then again we're the state that put in Der Governator.

I'll jump in for Barbara Boxer with all my heart, soul, and my threadbare wallet.

She has significant personal money to fund a start up campaign. She will raise a ton of money Nationally. She will position herself as a Centrist. She is well spoken and compared to Barbara Boxer she is a stunning beauty. Boxer will be 70 during the next campaign and was not a great campaigner when she was younger. This is a serious threat and this seat is in play. Don't take this one lightly. You California folks better get to work early.

in her mouth when she tried to help McCain. And stunning beauty?? I guess it is in the eyes of the beholder.

As I said "compared to Boxer". If Boxer turns you on that ok too.

she has no chance in hell.

physically, she would need more chest hair and a lower voice.

Seen any polling data lately? Boxer blows her away.

Actually in the last Rasmussen Poll July 24th Boxer 45% Fiorina 41%. In March it was 47% to 38%. I wound not call that a "blow away".

I'm just saying don't take this challenge lightly.

I've seen others that show Boxer blowing her away.

:puke: with that line, it's impossible to take your post seriesly.

n/t

Purposely edited to add: Douchebag

I think you meant to check green fellas profile?

The only reason Arnie won for Governator is that he had big bucks and popularity. whyCarly doesn't have the latter.

Why do these people insist on hanging on until they are beaten or die?

I've always found Barbara Boxer quite appealing, actually- and, having seen her up close on her book tour, she's got quite a physical presence.



I'll take the eye of the beholder, not the voice of the scolder

FCOL! Boxer will have the experience. Men stay in at 70 and no one challenges it. Go back to freeperland.

You must be wearing beer goggles... or be a Republican.

The batshit crazy crowd keeps multiplying. :puke:

campaigning for McCain. She should up on some talk show wearing enough gold to pave Cleveland. This was right when the economy was crashing. Someone must have told her to tone it down a bit because in the rest of her appearances she kept the bling to a minimum.

She didn't last long though. She made some comment about McCain being pro-choice and that was the end of Carly.

I haven't been lurking there for quite some time, but every time she reared her ugly head during last year's campaign, they were saying pretty much the same things about her that we do.

Frankly, we'd be lucky if she won the Repuke nomination, it would be the only thing she hasn't run into the ground.

I knew AWOL Bush would kill it.

I KNEW IT!

... will challenge Barbara Boxer?

Especially to some ex-CEO with ultra conservative regressive ideas.

(expletives omitted)...

sorry. not very mature. still it was my immediate response.

All the world knows that she is inept and ran HP into the ground.

Man oh MAN, they got nuttin'.

I did some contracting at HP a few years ago, and the tenured employees, you know, the ones that eactually made stuff, hated her guts. I had never seen employee's so pissed off about any member of the executive leadership before, and it was unsettling to me.

Then, it became clear that she was a H-1B abusing fool, and was shipping many jobs offshore, riding the wave of Globalization like all the other assholes.

When she finally popped up in the McCain campaign, that personal experience I had at HP connected and illustrated why the people at HP hated her so much.

I'm sure the stockholders love her long time though.

Carly Fiorino may be single-handedly responsible for this annoying phenomenon, which seems like a gold-paved method for spotting undervalued companies.

The team from the University of Exeter's School of Psychology and Business School conducted a comprehensive analysis of performance data from all FTSE 100 companies between 2001 and 2005. This found that companies with all-male boards had a market valuation equivalent to 166% of their book value, while companies with at least one female board member had a market value equal to just 121% of book value.

And don't get me wrong! I think it sucks that chauvinism is statistically identifiable in stock prices. But Fiorino's acquisition of the ailing Compaq brand was considered by everyone--everyone--to be a stupid move, and the aftermath of her tenure at HP pretty much confirms it. This one incident may be responsible for much of the above described disparity.

... at the time, since the AAC downloads that Apple was supporting with the Ipod were totally incompatible with the existing HP portable devices offerings, and the software they had bundled with them.

And they had a lot of incompatibilities for months with this brainless and non-thinking move by Fiorina that thought everything was a "marketing" decision from her limited experience, not a technical one that sometimes can be totally messed up if not done thoughtfully.

I worked for a company that supported their existing portable product with music, and we got unceremoniously dumped, and I think many in HP weren't to happy about that as were we and many of their existing customers. Itunes for windows wasn't available at the time of that announcement.

http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41446/opinion-hps-ipod-moves-could-hurt-the-industry.html

I worked at HP for several years as a contractor, including during the Carly reign. I witnessed a longtime HP'er turn beet red with anger and slam his fist into the wall after talking about the impact she had on his stock. Also saw several people sing "Ding dong the witch is dead" the day the news hit they had shitcanned her. :rofl:

"No American has a God-given right to a job". Least of all you, Carly.

What lame brained stunt did she manage that got her pulled off the campaign trail last year?

I'm sure someone will come up with a link though, the all of the brains we have on DU combined, we can usually dig up "Flattering" historical notes.

Lol


Oh yeah, here is is http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/people,1401,mccain-aide-disappears-after-querying-competence,45527

she made a statement that neither McCain nor Palin would be capable of running a business.

edit - it may have actually been that neither McCain nor Obama could run a business. Palin would be self evident anyway.

Saw it on Alien 3.

In the meantime, let's see Carly make it through the primaries. Who's her competition?

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