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This is just like 2012 season, let's knock out anybody who presents any competition to "our" candidate, no matter how many degrees of separation we can "find" (or more likely, imagine but pass for the "truth" in absence of facts) or what kind of pretzel we have to twist ourselves by omitting or distorting the data / facts, to make our point, in favor of our confirmation bias. Then, after they are knocked out, one by one, we are going to be left with ~~Mitt Romney~~ Jeb Bush who will unload on Trump in Florida (and there is a lot to unload, as we all know)...

Let's start with a few facts that are not in the article:

TechNet is the national, bipartisan network of CEOs and senior executives that promotes the growth of the technology industry by advocating a targeted policy agenda at the federal and 50-state level. TechNet's diverse membership includes dynamic startups to the most iconic companies on the planet and represents more than two million employees in the fields of information technology, biotechnology, green tech, e-commerce, venture capital and finance. TechNet has offices in Washington, D.C., Silicon Valley, Sacramento, Seattle, Boston and Austin...
As the technology industry's largest fundraising organization and most active supporter of candidates and elected officials on both sides of the aisle, TechNet offers its members unparalleled access to the leading decision-makers... Annually, TechNet hosts over 100 high-level political events including meet-and-greet and fundraising events with U.S. Presidents, Cabinet Members, Congressional Leadership, Governors, and state officials...
With a network of 60+ committed CEOs and Senior Executives – from the leaders of the nation's largest technology companies to venture capitalists to founders of innovative start-ups – TechNet provides invaluable opportunities for our members to build relationships and connect with other CEOs and Senior Executives...
TechNet's annual Washington, D.C. fly-in includes high-level meetings with Cabinet Secretaries and other Senior Administration officials as well as Congressional Leadership, accompanied by exclusive networking receptions and CEO roundtables...

Like the federal team, TechNet's state team organizes a monthly CA Public Policy Committee meeting and a Multi-State Public Policy Committee meeting with a guest speaker and legislative updates. TechNet's California state team also hosts a weekly Lobbyist Meeting to discuss, strategize and collaborate on priority legislation...

Let's see who they are giving money to, besides "Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer (later Fiorina’s 2010 Senate opponent), Senate Democratic Leaders Harry Reid and Tom Daschle, and the late Ted Kennedy."

From Carly Fiorina's Political Donations Always Go to Republicans. Sort of. - OpenSecrets.org, by Dave Levinthal, 2009 November 06

... a Center for Responsive Politics analysis of her own campaign contribution history indicates a bulletproof loyalty to her Republican kinfolk. Sort of.
During the past decade, Fiorina and her husband, Frank, have donated $57,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Additionally, they've contributed $6,000 to former President George. W. Bush, $4,600 to 2008 GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and $1,000 to James Cunneen, who in 2000 unsuccessfully ran to represent California's 15th Congressional District.
Fiorina, who served as a close adviser to McCain during his presidential bid, also bundled between $100,000 and $250,000 in campaign cash for him.
Where is gets a little sticky is that Fiorina, ousted in 2005 as Hewlett-Packard's chief executive officer, has contributed $25,000 to Hewlett-Packard's PAC over the years. The Hewlett-Packard PAC, in turn, has consistently donated significant sums of money to Democratic candidates — including $15,000 to Boxer this decade, $5,000 of which came during Fiorina's tenure.
Bottom line? The Hewlett-Packard PAC funneled between 39.1 percent and 45.4 percent of its federal political donations to Democratic candidates during the election cycles in which Fiorina led Hewlett-Packard, CRP's analysis indicates.

In 2000, Fiorina also donated $5,000 to the Technet PAC. That election cycle, Democratic candidates received more than 47 percent of the Technet PAC's more than $133,000 in political contributions.

Wow, such "generosity" to her company's PAC "over the years" and the bipartisan PAC representing interests of the industry where she was a "big honcho," isn't it?

Now that (I hope) we are done with relying on and reposting from the less reliable sources, who don't mind leaving out important facts or just making stuff up, let's check out one more that seems to be becoming this silly political season's "Newt Gingrich on the couch with Nancy Pelosi" - picture of Carly Fiorina on the set of NBC's "Meet the Press" that was held at the CGI in 2014.

She was the only conservative member of the "Meet the Press" panel of five, with then host David Gregory — advocating for smaller government solutions, against minimum wage, "global warming" regulations crushing energy / coal sector, Dodd-Frank that created even bigger TBTF banks while choking the credit and crushing small community banks, "crony capitalism" as a result of big government, etc., etc.

Watch the YouTube video to see for yourselves: The Case for Economic Justice: Meet the Press [at CGI] - 32m:26s

Don't miss her jab at Bill Clinton: "The era of Big Government is over!"