Fiorina Still Won't Take a Position on California's Landmark Global Warming Law
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Political notebook: Teachers decry Fiorina's stance on jobs bill
A group of local teachers held a press conference in Bakersfield Thursday to denounce Carly Fiorina, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, for opposing a federal jobs bill they say will save 16,500 education jobs in California.
"Carly Fiorina laid off 33,000 Hewlett-Packard employees and now she is offering pink slips to more than 1,200 educators in the Bakersfield area," retired Bakersfield City School District teacher Bill Griffith said in the release.
Read more at Bakersfield Californian
Fiorina on Roe v. Wade
In her own words:
“I absolutely would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade if the opportunity presented itself.” - Carly Fiorina interview with Eric Hogue, Capitol Hour, KTKZ - AM, 1/25/10
As described by supporters:
[Fiorina] is committed to take up the cause of life in the United States Senate...” – National Right to Life Committee
“I’m proud to endorse [Fiorina] for U.S. Senate... She is pro-life...” – Sarah Palin
"Carly Fiorina is a solid conservative who has solid pro-life values. She will support and defend Americans' Second Amendment rights... I'm pleased to endorse Carly Fiorina today." - Rick Santorum, former Senator
"Carly Fiorina is clearly the only pro-life candidate who can beat...Barbara Boxer. She is 100 percent pro-life... California Pro-Life is proud to endorse Carly Fiorina for U.S. Senate." - The California Pro-Life Council
"We've been waiting for Carly Fiorina for a long time - in fact, since the day Barbara Boxer was elected to the U.S. Senate." - Susan B. Anthony's List
View Fiorina's record on choice.
Read endorsements of Fiorina.
Carly's endorser disagrees w/her on stimulus. What gives?
Hate to cough in the punch bowl, but we hastened to ask if The Chamber or Carly's other new BFF -- Jack Stewart, prez of the California Manufacturers and Technology Association -- had any problems with Hewlett-Packard dumping 25,000 jobs while Fiorina was at the CEO helm. Isn't it kind of hard to reconcile that record with the new sign and all?
Read more at SFGate
Fiorina Hides Behind Farmers To Push Billions In Tax Cuts For Multi-Millionaires
President Obama has proposed reinstating the estate tax at the 2009 level of 45 percent with a $3.5 million exemption (so $3.5 million can be handed on entirely tax free). According to estimates by the Tax Policy Center only about 110 small businesses or family farms in the entire country could conceivably be affected by the estate tax at that level. And “virtually none” would have to go through the doomsday scenario of selling off parts of the farm itself in order to pay:
A Congressional Budget Office study found that all but a handful of the farm estates that would owe any tax under the 2009 parameters would have sufficient liquid assets on hand (such as bank accounts, stocks, and bonds) to pay the tax without having to touch the farm or business. And those very few small business and farm estates that might conceivably face a liquidity problem would have other options — such as spreading their payments over a 14-year period — that would allow them to pay the tax without selling off any of the business or farm assets.
Read more at The Wonk Room at Think Progress
A Tale of Two CEOs: The Fiorina, HP, and Stock Prices
When Mark Hurd left as CEO of HP today, HP stock dropped 10%
http://www.businessinsider.com/hps-stock-crashes-11-2010-8
When Carly Fiorina was fired as CEO of HP in 2005, investors celebrated and HP stock rose by 10%
http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/09/technology/hp_fiorina/
Read more at The California Majority Report
OC Weekly: Carly Fiorina Flubs Way Through Stump Speech
By Matt Coker
published: Tue., Aug. 10 2010 @ 2:54PM
We receive emails daily from Republican Carly Fiorina's campaign to unseat U.S. Sen.Barbara Boxer (D-California) this November. The underlying spin in 99 percent of these messages is this: liberal Boxer has failed the Golden State miserably when it has come to creating and retaining jobs. Fiorina hammered that home again while visiting a custom fiberglass truck-top manufacturer in Long Beach Monday morning.
But what failed the former Hewlitt-Packard CEO miserably was her own advance team.
Joanne Tucker gets the scoop in the Long Beach Press-Telegram.
Fiorina began by telling the small crowd at SnugTop, which employs 170 people, "It's sobering to realize SnugTop is the last manufacturer in Long Beach."
She went on to lament that Boeing, the maker of C-17 cargo planes and best known manufacturer in town, is leaving Long Beach.
Two problems there, Car: SnugTop is not the last manufacturer in Long Beach.
And while Boeing did recently announce the layoff and transfer of 800 engineering positions in Long Beach, C-17 production is scheduled to continue there through at least 2012.* (*now likely 2013 thanks to a just-announced order from India's air force).
Andrea Saul, Fiorina's campaign press secretary, issued one of those oopsie explanation statements that blamed a business organization she declined to name for the bad info.
Then Saul got all pissy:
"The fact of the matter and the premise remains, manufacturing is declining in the state because of the failed policies supported by people like Barbara Boxer."
Ah, that's more like it.
Read more at OC Weekly
How would Fiorina vote on the Small Business Jobs Act? Yes? No? Probably?
TO: Interested Parties
FROM: Rose Kapolczynski, Boxer Campaign Manager
Yesterday, Senate Republicans blocked consideration of the Small Business Jobs Act that would aid small businesses with expanded loan programs and tax credits to help them grow and hire. The bill includes a provision based on legislation that Senator Boxer co-introduced that would create a $30 billion fund to help community banks extend loans to small businesses.
How would Fiorina vote on the Small Business Jobs Act? We’re not sure because as far as we know, she doesn’t have a position on the Small Business Jobs Act.
Last week, Fiorina told KGO-AM that she would “probably” vote for the extension of unemployment benefits which passed the Senate. While Fiorina ponders her options on the Small Business Jobs Act, we would like to remind her that there are only two voting options when you are on the Senate floor -- “yes” and “no.” “Probably” is not an option.
Fiorina might be more familiar with voting if she had bothered to vote in more elections – so far she’s only voted in 35 percent since she moved to California more than a decade ago.
While Fiorina figures out how she would vote, Senator Boxer continues to fight to pass the Small Business Jobs Act to provide California’s small businesses access to loans and tax breaks for hiring employees.
Is Tony Hayward calling Carly Fiorina for advice?
July 29, 2010
TO: Interested Parties
FROM: Rose Kapolczynski, Boxer Campaign Manager
RE: Is Tony Hayward calling Carly Fiorina for advice?
What do you do when you’re the CEO of a high profile corporation and you’ve mismanaged things so badly that your Board of Directors is giving you the boot?
As CEO Tony Hayward negotiates the terms of his departure from BP, he might be looking at Carly Fiorina as a role model. After HP's stock price plummeted by more than 50 percent, Fiorina was fired by the board -- but still walked away with a golden parachute with a value of at least $21 million.
On Monday, CNN Newsroom listed Fiorina as an example of CEOs who “watched their companies tank and their personal fortunes soar.”
CNN reporter Kyra Phillips noted that “Carly Fiorina oversaw the layoffs of over 20,000 employees before she, too, was shown the door. But she didn’t have to join them in the unemployment line. Her severance and pension benefits are estimated at more than $40 million.”
Of course, if Hayward truly follows in Carly Fiorina’s footsteps, he risks earning one of Fiorina's other distinctions: being named one of the 20 worst CEOs of all time.