Posted on 09/24/2015 6:08:13 AM PDT by jimbo123
Former Carly Fiorina political staffers refuse to work for her again after they weren't paid for YEARS (and she's worth $120 million!)
Fiorina lost her first run for office, a 2010 bid for the US Senate in California.
'I'd rather go to Iraq than work for Carly Fiorina again,' said one high-level former campaign staffer.
Fiorina super PAC spokesperson brushes if off, saying it's 'common' for political campaigns to have massive debts when they fold.
Politics has a well-known revolving door, with candidates often rehiring consultants, strategists and vendors as they move from one campaign to the next. But for Republican presidential contender Carly Fiorina, that might not be so easy.
Twelve of about 30 people who worked on Fiorina's failed 2010 California Senate campaign, most speaking out for the first time, told Reuters they would not work for her again.
Fiorina, once one of America's most powerful businesswomen, is now campaigning for the Republican nomination in 2016.
The reason: for more than four years, Fiorina – who has an estimated net worth of up to $120 million – didn't pay them, a review of Federal Election Commission records shows.
On the campaign trail, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO has portrayed herself as a battle-hardened business leader who possesses the best financial skills among fellow Republican presidential hopefuls.
But some former staffers on her Senate campaign are now raising questions about that portrayal.
Federal campaign filings show that, until a few months before Fiorina announced her presidential bid on May 4, she still owed staffers, consultants, strategists, legal experts and vendors nearly half a million dollars.
FEC records show, for example, that her former campaign manager Martin Wilson was owed $80,500; legal counsel Ben Ginsberg $60,000, and the widow of California political adviser Joe Shumate, who died during the final month
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“most speaking out for the first time”
Reminds me of last election....media built Carly up, with rave reviews of her debate performance...and what do you know, all of the sudden, they find out something about her ‘for the first time’, and do a hit job. No way they had this story waiting in the wing for weeks or even months...they just found out about it.
Last time it got us Romney.
Ugh, I want to throw up everytime I look at that face!!
Old article but this is the first I have heard of this. She really is wrapped up in herself.
She looks like Romney in drag.
Seriously, she (it?) has enough masculine features about her that she resembles one of those transgender freaks all dolled up and trying to look feminine.
Yes indeed, Carly FioRinoRomney!
What would Trump do? O pay his bill even if he had to take it out of his own pocket.
Cheap bitch. She is in everything she does just for herself.
Let’s see. Lucent... HP... Campaign staff.
Yep, she’s consistent.
Doesn’t anyone sue her? Or is that a waste of time?
Fiorina opposition research report
Here is the 218-page opposition research report on Carly Fiorina compiled by political research firm Gragert Jones for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in April 2010.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/280494704/Fiorina-opposition-research-report
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