Carly Fiorina to announce run for U.S. Senate

Former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Carly Fiorina will formally announce her run for the U.S. Senate this morning at a news conference in Garden Grove.

“Throughout my career I've brought people together, and I've solved problems,” Fiorina said in a statement. “And that is what is needed in our government today. People who are willing to set aside ego and partisanship and instead work to develop solutions to our problems. … As California's senator, economic recovery and fiscal accountability will be my priorities.”

Fiorina will face off against Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) for the Republican nomination. The GOP candidate would compete against incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, who is seeking a fourth term.

“I look forward to engaging Carly Fiorina on the issues Californians care about: out-of-control federal debt, soaring government spending on bailouts and stimulus, a pending government takeover of healthcare, and Barbara Boxer's huge energy-tax increase disguised as cap-and-trade," DeVore said in a statement.                 

-- Times staff

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Photo: Carly Fiorina in September 2008. The former chairwoman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. will formally announce her run for the U.S. Senate. Credit: Paul Sancya / Associated Press

Comments

[justiceserved]

An unsuccessful business executive who oversaw the collapse of value at her company under her management, supported McCain but eventually ran afoul of the campaign, now wants to enter politics? Let me guess, another Republican corporate shill!!! Throw her out before she gets in. We don't need another failed business millionaire in politics.

[Collin]

The Queen of outsourcing jobs overseas. I wonder what she will do in the Senate. Wasn't her famous comment of: "We in America are not guarenteed jobs." enough for voters. I don't like Boxer, but this is a poor choice as well.

[Rod Flanders]

Regardless of how you feel about Boxer, hopefully we can do better than a failed CEO.

When Fiorina became CEO in July, 1999, HP's stock price was $52 per share, and when she left 5 years later in February, 2005, it was $21 per share—a loss of over 60% of the stock's value. During this same time period, HP competitor Dell's stock price increased from $37 to $40 per share.

In April 2009, the business magazine web site Condé Nast Portfolio listed Fiorina as one of the "The 20 Worst American CEOs of all time," characterizing the HP-Compaq merger as widely regarded as a failure, and citing the halving of HP's stock value under Fiorina's tenure.

However, in typical CEO fashion Carly gotslightly more than twenty million dollars in severance, for slashing the value of HP stock in half.

[HP shareholder]

Fiorina? The failed CEO who got pulled off the McCain campaign for sounding like an idiot. If that's what the GOP wants, that's what they deserve.

[nancy]

I delighted Carly is running for US Senate and Meg Whitman for Governor. We need MORE business people running the government instead of life time public employees. Carly and Meg have experience running companies, creating jobs, control spending, etc,. Unlike Barbara Boxer who has zero experience running anything. Boxer knows how to spend money and raise our taxes...that's about it.

[Roy Burris]

She would ruin California just like she did HP. I owned a small HP ASP computer store and watched her drive HP in the ground and saw first hand how they treated small business. After 10 years in business they sent me a letter saying I was no longer authorized to do warranty work on HP computers. 3o days notice after years of providing quality service.

[Kevin W. FitzMaurice]

Carly Fiorina says: "As California's senator, economic recovery and fiscal accountability will be my priorities.”

Huh? Hey, she's the one who was fired from Hewlett Packard after running it into the ground! She's the last person you would want involved in economic recovery and fiscal accountability!

And if you see the incredible list of perks, right down to the littlest personal things, she got in her firing, you would not elect her to anything, instead would throw her in prison! Would you want her dipping into your tax funds like that!?

[Ramon]

Alright! We can now get rid of that Narcissistic woman who is so full of herself. Thank God.

[BluGrass]

I don't think her track record at HP will help her. Wasn't she essentially forced out after serious business declines? Anyone remember the details?

[Baronpilot]

Carly Fiorina's tenure at HP was a disaster. She was the first HP CEO who was fired.

She was FIRED.

PERIOD.

Everyone I know at HP hates her and what she did. I worked at HP for 12 years.

We will destroy Carly. Bring it on, Ms. Fiorina. You're not going to get to twist voters arms with back room deals like you did with institutions that owned HP stock.

We will bury you.

[Dan]

Carly Fiorina was a joke with HP. She was so much of a joke with John McCain he fired her.
She has no experience and to make up for that she cheated using Twitter, what other tricks will she use in her out of control self indulgent try for political office.
Chuck DeVore can help restore this country to fiscal sanity and solvency.
Carly Fiorina is just another RINO whose philosophy is Tax & Spend.

[kuiperobject]

Just what we need, another self absorbed promoter running for political office. Here we have a lousy, arrogant former CEO from HP that made the "CNBC worst CEO of all times list" thinking that now she has what it take to be a US Senator. Yikes!

[Mike A.]

I heartily support her in her ability to lead this great nation. Just remember her tenure at those most storied of U.S. companies - Lucent (now owned by French firm) and HP (now run by someone more competent)

[Carly is a joke]

Is this woman for real? She gets booted from HP for misconduct related to illegal wiretaping and now claims to bring people together and solve problems? She only brings them together in a court of law and the only problem solving is done by her lawyers.

[Frank]

Sensing a threat to her personal finances from a possible public healthcare option, Carly Fiorina decides to run for Senate, claiming the two solutions for public healthcare is to promote outpatient clinics over regular doctors and to take away meaningful legal recourse for malpractice. Thats quite a platform.

[Michael]

"Throughout my career I've brought people together"

Yeah, they are all standing in the unemployment line together.

If you want another cold-hearted millionaire to eliminate jobs and services, look no further.

[Mackintosh]

'Throughout my career I've brought people together".... really, anyone at HP? Like those who she outsourced their jobs?

"I've solved problems,” ... more like created them

"People who are willing to set aside ego" ... this woman really is a BS artist

Anyone who votes for this farce needs their head examined.

[gnawme]

Fiorina did such a sterling job at HP that they paid her $21.4 million to go away. California voters should make her go away before she gets in a position to do any damage.

[savvydude]

All this criticism - yikes! Fiorina, Devore, it doesn't matter. Anybody is better than Boxer. She is nothing more than a radical rubber stamp without any original thought. Except when insulting executives of color, that is.

[El Guapo de la cuidad de los angeles]

She screwed up HP so why not let her screw up California too.

[Jason Matthews]

Anyone who worked at Hewlett-Packard during her reign will recall that she decimimated HP's employee morale and the uniquely respectufl way that HP treated its employees over the years before her arrival. I can only imagine what kind of style and subastance she would bring to the U.S. Senate.

[JM]

“Throughout my career I've brought people together, and I've solved problems,” Fiorina said in a statement.

Yea, She certainly will bring people together to vote against her. She needs to find a different sandbox to play in with her millions she rip off from HP with her failed leadership.

[Chris]

Carly is described as a “moderate Republican”. As such, her candidacy is doomed from the start. The only candidates who will be supported by the de facto leadership of the Republican party, Limbaugh, Beck, and FOX, won’t stand for it. Her conservative ideology is not pure. They will only stand behind flat-earth candidates like Palin. Don’t wast your money Carly.

[TTN]

Elect Carly to be the R- candidate for Senator, she will do really well against Barbara Boxer :-)

[Gordon Potik]

Carly Fiorina ... Here comes another person to purchase a seat in the Senate of the United States. She failed as leader of HP and failed as a supporter of John McCain. California deserves a much better choice. Don't let Fiorina buy this important Senate Seat. No way no how!!!