What non-Californians don't know about Carly Fiorina -- but should

[Zorro]

The most surprising takeaway from last week's Republican presidential debate -- next to the difficulty of puncturing Donald Trump's helium-powered candidacy -- was the mass anointing of Carly Fiorina as the Candidate to Watch.

Praise for the former Hewlett-Packard CEO's performance at the introductory undercard debate spanned the full range of news outlets. The conservative National Review remarked on her "poise and her well-crafted answers," and CNN paid homage to her "sharp knowledge of the issues."

Fiorina told the latter that she went into the debate aware that "only 40% of Republicans even know who I am."

She must be talking about people outside the state of California. Here in the Golden State, we know Carly Fiorina very well. We know her as the under-performing CEO of one of Silicon Valley's marquee corporations, and even better for her losing campaign against Sen. Barbara Boxer in 2010.

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-non-californians-carly-fiorina-20150811-column.html

[Joanie Baloney]

1. Great article

And, boy, ain't it the truth. That's one thing I agree with Trump about:

"I just realized that if you listen to Carly Fiorina for more than ten minutes straight, you develop a massive headache."

Thanks for posting this, Zorro!

-JB

[JayhawkSD]

4. It doesn't give me a headache, it makes me puke. nt

[RussBLib]

2. I heard that she spied on the other HP board members

and that is largely what led to her ouster.

Nothing like a little insider information to help you in the market.

[JayhawkSD]

3. Well, no, not quite.

It was not about the spying. It was about her utter incompetence in taking one of the top California corporations which offered among the best customer service in the world, stripping it of every part which had been producing profit, turning its customer service into garbage, buying Compaq computer which was losing money at a prodigious rate, laying off tens of thousands of employees, stripping assets of the company, and then claiming that she was among the top executives in the nation.

Her campaign against Boxer was about arrogance, dishonesty, ignorance and abrasiveness. And those were her good points.

You might gather I'm from California. Yes. The SD in my nom de plume stands for San Diego.

[Joanie Baloney]

5. To hear her lies during the Senate run

Coupled with Meg Whitman's disastrous gubernatorial bid was enough to make me question being a Californian in the future. Thank goodness, we came to our senses and banished the witches. Too bad we didn't make sure they were dead.

(What part of SD are you in, Jay? I'm in North Park.)

-JB

[JayhawkSD]

7. Mission Valley.

It's awesome, 15 minutes from everything. Not so cool when there's a Chargers game; I'm right across the freeway from Qualcomm Stadium.

[Miles Archer]

6. You've NEVER seen WORSE morale at a company than at HP during her "reign."

HP had a reputation as a "great place to work" before Fiorina showed up. I was finishing my degree at San Jose State and working full-time, usually as a contractor, during the day. I did a two or three week stint at HP. The overall impression was that most of the people were very good people, BUT, there was this constant undercurrent of "I-don't-know-what"...depression? Anxiety? Anger? Itw as absolutely negative but not easy to characterize in one word. If you've ever had food poisoning and know that feeling of everything feeling "slightly off" after you pass through the worst of it, that's what HP felt like. A few folks were very vocal about how much they loathed her. No one...NO ONE...had a positive word to say about her. She's scum of the Earth. Absolute scum.