California Should Vote Carly Fiorina. Fiorina Has Proven Super Leadership Skills
This is a CEO who, in the words of another right-wing Republican in the form of a former GOP presidential candidate, was too ego-driven to successfully run a company. She was a great self-promoter, but not so much on the actually getting the job done at HP thing. The board hated her, after all she was spying on some of them. The employees hated her, she laid off thousands of them, so no surprise there. And, oh yeah, the stock value of HP halved while she was the CEO.But you see, Carly is one of the Kool Konservatives Kids and they get pass no matter how much they screw up or how many people they screw over. Conservatism is not so much a political movement as much as a club for rewarding unmerited wealth and power.
Certainly we can agree that the last thing California needs is somebody too concerned about their own ego to focus on the very real problems we have to deal with today.
"Let's not forget that the HP board fired Fiorina early in 2005, and no company has hired her since." - David W. Packard, former HP board member and son of HP founder Dave Packard (San Jose Mercury News, "Opinion: Neither of HP's founders would have endorsed Fiorina," April 22, 2010)
"...Carly Fiorina was a failure at Hewlett-Packard." - Michael S. Malone, ABCNews.com columnist and former Hewlett-Packard employee (ABC News/Money, "Carly Fiorina's HP Legacy," October 10, 2006)
"Fiorina's reign at H-P...makes a great case study of exactly what not to do." - TheStreet.com, "The Nation's Worst CEOs," June 10, 2004
"[H-P's board members] lost faith in Carly...It is difficult to find anyone involved with H-P today -- board member, shareholder, employee, customer, analyst -- who isn't happy that Ms. Fiorina is gone..." - Wall Street Journal, "H-P lost faith in Carly, but not in merger," May 24, 2006
"Fiorina was bad. Everyone seems to agree on this now... All in all, our judges seem to think Fiorina should win [the 'Worst Tech CEO' title]." - USA Today, "Can Fiorina trump competition for 'worst tech CEO' title?" February 16, 2005
"[Fiorina is] the worst because of her ruthless attack on the essence of this great company. She destroyed half the wealth of her investors and yet still earned almost $100 million in total payments for this destructive reign of terror." - Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of Yale University (USA Today, "Can Fiorina trump competition for 'worst tech CEO' title?" February 16, 2005)
Carly Fiorina Supports Outsourcing American Jobs To China
On Tuesday night Carly Fiorina won the Republican Senate primary in California and the very next day she says that if she were still CEO of HP she would have no problem cutting 10,000 jobs right now (when California suffers a 13% unemployment rate). According to Fiorina, “China is fighting for our jobs” – and apparently she’s ready to give our jobs to them?When you live in the Conservative Bubble of Misinformation you tend not to notice or care about the facts. A trait Carly is certain to bring to the Senate - isn't that just the kind of change America needs right now.
Fiorina is quick to bash the stimulus, which she claims has not helped California. Think Progress points out just how wrong she is:
According to employer reports, more than 70,000 stimulus jobs have been created in the Golden State. Overall, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the recovery act saved or created 2.8 million jobs, and an estimated 3.7 million by September.
