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Posted on 06/02/2009 6:28:41 AM PDT by calcowgirl
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is armed with money and the support of well-placed Republicans for a possible run against Democratic U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer next year. But she's also got something that has dogged other wealthy political neophytes - a spotty voting record.
Fiorina, 54, of Los Altos Hills, who recently acknowledged that she is "seriously considering" a run, has voted in about 1 in 4 of the national, state and local elections in which she was eligible to cast a ballot since she registered in the Bay Area as a Republican in 2000, according to Santa Clara County records.
She didn't vote in presidential primaries in 2000 and 2004, the county's Registrar of Voters database shows. Nor did Fiorina cast a ballot in the primary or general elections in 2006, when Californians last voted for a U.S. senator, re-electing Democrat Dianne Feinstein.
In gubernatorial elections, the former HP chief didn't vote in general and primary elections in 2002 - the year Gray Davis was re-elected governor; she again failed to vote in the historic 2003 special election - the California gubernatorial recall that unseated Davis and brought Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger to power.
By not voting, Fiorina also failed to weigh in on a number of key educational, environmental and fiscal issues before voters ... Among them: 2004's Proposition 57, the $15 billion statewide Economic Recovery Bond Act; 2004's Proposition 47, the $13 billion state bond to renovate public schools; and 2006's Proposition 84, which sought to promote clean energy and preserve California's environment.
"Carly acknowledges that she didn't vote some of the time - and she readily acknowledges that it's never good not to vote," Fiorina's chief of staff, Deborah Bowker, said Monday, adding that Fiorina doesn't dispute the records.
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Big McCain supporter.
Can’t the GOP find any competent leaders?
Good idea. Take someone who nearly destroyed a major tech company and run them for Senate.
Boxer is evil, Fiorina is merely ill equipped. I’d hope for a better choice.
Not a Californian but logic would dictate that at least with Boxer you’d know who’s the enemy?
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Ran everything she ever touched into the ground, why does the party of free enterprise even have anything to do with this incompetent woman?
On the campaigning aspect of this, irrespective of her merits (have not read much about her), there is potential here. For example, she could formulate a campaign based on voter disgust, getting out I/U voters, and convincing voters, like her, that they should pay attention and start voting in this election.
another RINO incompetent
I/U?
Incompetent/Unqualified?
If they wanted an incompetent CEO who ran her company into the ground, why not run Ken Lay?
No, but we can.
>>If they wanted an incompetent CEO who ran her company into the ground, why not run Ken Lay?
He’s not a Californian.
And he doesn’t have that “progressive” image the liberals in our state GOP ‘leadership’ seem to be so fond of.
Besides, he’s dead.
I don’t care if she never voted. Anybody would be better than Boxer and in California, she might have a chance.
Scant voting record? Two words come to mind. One is Barack. You work out the other one.
Sorry but as someone who’s worked in IT for many years it was shocking to see Fiorina’s reign of errors (and terror) at HP. When you have the company founder’s family opposing you there must be something ugly going on.
Yes we need GOP gains in Congress but we can do better policy-wise and temperament-wise.
He could run in Chicago or Philadelphia but not California.
Do you care that she’s liberal? Or supports the global warming hoax? Or thinks new taxes will be palatable if they government is “creative enough” to sell it to the sheeple? Or that she’s a big-government big-spending novice who has a record of driving enterprises into the ground?
Certainly there are other choices than Boxer or Fiorina. Both are dangerous, liberal incompetents, IMO.
If I lived in California I’d vote for Boxer just so I could say I voted against this woman.
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