After her pollster, Joe Shumate, died a month before Election Day, his widow was also left waiting for the $30,000 he was owed.
Posted on 10/06/2015 4:42:46 AM PDT by jimbo123
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is rebutting a Washington Post story that details a pattern of delayed payments to staff and contractors after her 2010 Senate campaign in California.
According to the piece, Fiorina, the wealthy former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, waited until January, a few months before announcing her 2016 presidential bid, to settle most of the more than 30 invoices outstanding from her last campaign - a total of about $500,000. She was quicker to reimburse herself the $1.3 million she lent the campaign.
Fiorina, when asked about the article Monday, dismissed it. "You know I don't think the Washington Post has much credibility anymore," she told reporters.
Several contractors told the Post about their difficulty getting paid: Jon Seaton, the managing partner of East Meridian Strategies, was paid half of his $18,000 bill for making campaign mailers (he is now employed by another 2016 presidential candidate, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina). He said he still has not received the other half. Jan van Lohuizen, who did surveys for the campaign, wasn't paid the remaining $7,500 he was owed until this year. After her pollster, Joe Shumate, died a month before Election Day, his widow was also left waiting for the $30,000 he was owed.
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After her pollster, Joe Shumate, died a month before Election Day, his widow was also left waiting for the $30,000 he was owed.
I saw a commercial on TV here in Georgia about DebtStoppers. Nice looking lady bemoaning all her debt, bills and expenses. So she called DebtStoppers and they helped her declare bankruptcy.
She goes on. “After DebtStoppers, I was able to get a job again and now have a brand new home and got my life back!”
Camera zooms out from the doorstep of a nice new home (brick)in a nice new subdivision that I couldn’t afford.
Have debt? Don’t pay it. Let it sit until right before it becomes a real problem. Get yourself a new gig (run for office?) and some new donor money and go back and pay the squeaky wheels.
If these statements are true, the public needs to know. $500K to this woman is not a big deal, & would not break her bank.
This sounds like Leona Hemsly behavior to the little people in her life. I would think less of someone who left so many obligations unpaid when she had the money. The Clintons are also this way, looking to get something for free because people should be honored to work for them in any capacity.
I enjoy the guy on the radio talking about a service that help reduce his tax bill—”saving a ridiculous amount of money”.
I may not like the current tax system, but if you owe, you owe.
Else, you’re a deadbeat.
Hillary Clinton took 5 years to pay off her campaign debts. This isn’t a big deal.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/22/hillary-clintons-campaign-debt-finally-paid-off/
One of my business “friends” has a printing/bulk mail operation. ALL politicians are CASH on the barrel head. He will not even take checks from them.
She talks just like Hillary.
I’d say it’s a big deal if CF knew about it.
Thing is, these campaigns can be disorganized (not on purpose, but with so much goings on it happens) that some things can fall through the cracks.
Notwithstanding, people can say whatever they want—truth is secondary.
The truth will out.
5+ years and never received the bill. Found out about it by reading about it in the newspaper???
Well she’s right about the Post having no credibility on articles relating to her. They gave her 3 Pinnochios for saying she started as a secretary and became CEO of HP.
She did not claim to be born in a log cabin or from a poverty stricken family. Yes her family was solidly middle class, even upper middle class (she never claimed anything else).
I think the bad fact, when it comes to character, is that she paid herself and then refused to pay anyone else. I guess it would be one thing if she were broke, but she’s not broke. There’s an element of dishonesty to the whole thing.
I used the word dishonest in the last post about this topic. I have seen promoters try to stiff talent following a show and it often has nothing to do with whether there exists money. Some folks are just pigs. Once the money gets into their hands, they don’t know how to let go of it, even if it is obviously owed. In the long run, pigs always lose so there is a certain natural justice that prevails. But, it’s a weird phenomenon and I’m not sure that my word dishonesty actually fits. It’s more self-destructive and you can see the cost in this story.
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