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Ex-HP boss confirms political move

The former boss of HP, Carly Fiorina, is to stand as a Republican candidate for Senate for California. Writing in the Orange County Register (no relation), Fiorina said: "Our most pressing problems today are too few jobs for Americans and too much spending in Washington. As California's senator, economic recovery and fiscal …

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NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She should be forbidden from entering the political process.

Of course, the bright side is she tarnishes the Republican image worse than it already is.

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WTF?

Why??

The economy of CA is already well stuffed, what more does she think she can do to it?

what a HyPocrite

wasn't she the one who cut thousands and thousands of American jobs at HP?

FAIL

Oh great...

... another arrogant power hungry control freak in politics. Just what the world needs.

@"what more does she think she can do to it"

How about her setting up some more money pipelines into some business areas that are ready and waiting for her once she leaves politics to go back into business. That is the usual way people in politics play this game. Plus her friends in business will be very happy. But then guess who ends up paying for all the money pouring into select businesses. ;)

And who's fault is it there are too few jobs for Americans?

> Our most pressing problems today are too few jobs for Americans

As the person who decided to fire all the Americans in HP and replace them with cheap labour in other parts of the world,, it's a bit rich for her to now turn around and bitch about it.

As for too much government spending. This is the woman who advertised for new cabin crew for her new executive jet while at the same time telling her hard pressed lab engineers that life was tough and that what with the state of the economy they were too expensive and so they'd be laid off... PS, don't bother applying for the job of cabin crew on my new jet

Can't see many in the tech heart land voting for Carly the job killer.

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No, No, No...

She must be joking. This is the woman who managed to screw up two decent companies (Compaq and HP) by joining them together to become the heartless, morally bankrupt company that the new HP is today. On top of that I thought Arnie had done a pretty good job of messing up California already, he ought to call her and tell her he doesn't need any help.

I guess that the $24M kick up the backside she got from HP must be running low and she needs a top-up?

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Is there any doubt?

If there was any doubt now that the GOP has become the last bastion of the village idiot this would have to expunge it completely.

Seriously folks, the contradiction is plain to see, as most commenters have expressed, and history shows, she was singing a different tune when she was justifying sending thousands of American jobs off shore, which just proves to me that these people will say anything to get elected.

If you are hell bent on America becoming more of a laughing stock than it already is then go ahead and vote for her. That's not what you want is it?

Maybe she was America's most toxic CEO at one time, but seems she passed the mantle to Mark Hurd see damiansaunders,net

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RE: Not bothering to vote

Why should they bother voting when they have already bought all the candidates anyway?

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