Fiorina, who presided over the $25 billion HP/Compaq merger in 2001 and left in 2006, said: “I haven’t spent all my life in politics – I’m a proven leader with a track record in problem solving”.
“I honestly think that my background is vastly different than anyone else in this race”, he said.
Even more striking, Mrs. Fiorina, the only former female chief executive among the candidates, continues to promote her business experience on the trail, yet she was sacked by Hewlett-Packard after the company’s stock dropped by half in 2005.
Fiorina fielded seven questions and drew cheers from the crowd when she denounced Planned Parenthood.
“She talked about the issues, not so much about herself”, Duma said.
Howard Anderson, a venture capitalist and longtime critic of the deal who is now a senior lecturer at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, said in an interview that Fiorina’s effort to turn around HP looks as bad in retrospect as it did at the time. Instead she spoke about her own military know-how. “We paid a awful cost, a disgusting penalty for not realizing the threat that they pose us“.
“The fact the he’s run a state government”, Townsend said, “it gives him that perspective which she doesn’t have”. She faced the same charges from Democrats in a news conference Friday, in preparation for the GOP gala “Basque Fry”. Three polls this week show Carson moving into second or third place in Iowa, and a couple of polls have put Fiorina approaching double digits.
Added Shulman: “It’s clear that all of the Republican candidates would be a disaster for the middle class”. “Not exactly a surprise”. Imagine if Ben Carson were about to operate on your childs brain and he came to you in the waiting room and said, “By the way, this is my friend Joe.
Pro-life Fiorina was asked by a local mother of five children about her stance on vaccinating kids. And that’s why I’m glad that Yale professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld wrote a piece recently in Fortune that demolished her boasts of success at HP (see goo.gl/tVafcK).
“The other thing I learned is that the ground game really matters”. She has long blamed her failings at running the technology giant on the bursting of the dot-com bubble and the deepening recession in Silicon Valley after the September 11 attacks.
A higher minimum wage is a recipe for lowering opportunities for young people, according to Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina.
“If conservative and Republicans don’t vote, we lose before we start”, Fiorina said. People have been talking about it for 25 years and yet the border remains insecure, the legal immigration system is broken so it’s not about what we need to do.