Former H-P CEO Carly Fiorina announces Senate bid
2008, RON EDMONDS/AP
Carly Fiorina will seek the Republican nomination to run against Democrat Barbara Boxer.
Published: November 4, 2009
Updated: November 4, 2009
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina says she’ll run for the U.S. Senate seat held by California incumbent Barbara Boxer.
Fiorina ended months of speculation Wednesday with an announcement in an opinion piece she wrote for the Orange County Register. She’s scheduled to make a formal announcement later in the day.
Fiorina must win the Republican primary before she can challenge Boxer.
Fiorina says her priorities would be creating jobs, cutting government spending and expanding access to health care — but not through a national health care system.
The 55-year-old Fiorina was economic adviser to John McCain’s failed presidential bid last year. She received a $21 million severance package when Hewlett-Packard Co.‘s board fired her in 2005. That money would make her a formidable challenger to Boxer.
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John Bottom,
Sounds like you wish the U.S. to be a third world country like the ones where we sent our manufacturing because we have a minimum wage. Nice.
Her claim to fame at HP was buying Compaq, not the best aquisition. HP’s share price descended and eventually she was fired. As John McCain’s economic advisor she committed some major gaffs and they silenced her. Yeah she’ll make a great Republican.
I guess she didn’t learn her lesson after almost running HP into the ground. Now she thinks she can effectively govern a state. It’s truly tragic that we can’t find better candidates for office anywhere in this country. This woman couldn’t run a lemonade stand, and has the audacity to think she’s qualified to be a senator.
I guess you’ve never bothered to think outside the box and see that if the U.S. didn’t have a minimum wage, there would be no need to send jobs like the ones you’re referring to overseas. We do not have a competitive wage structure in this country, therefore many jobs are outsourced to countries that do in order to reduce costs.
I’m glad to see a non-career politician running for the Senate. We need more businesspeople like her in Washington.
I remember as recently as 3 or 4 years ago when Carly was head of HP. She did everything she could to lower costs by shipping as much of HP overseas as possible and just have HP in US be the bean counters. It’s still happening. She was interviewed while head of HP and said that Americans did not have the God Given right to have a job over someone elsewhere in the world if it allowed HP to cut costs. True, BUT that showed many of her stripes.
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