You can watch Carly Fiorina’s announcement today live online at this link, at 10 am
Businesswoman Carly Fiorina, who used to head up HP, is likely to announce her campaign for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Barbara Boxer today, at 10 am, at Earth Friendly Products in Garden Grove. Below is the press release for the event.
Her GOP opponent, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, will now find out what it is like to go big game hunting with a BB gun. Why do his backers think that a by the book conservative can win in blue California? How silly. Better men than he have run and lost. It takes a lot of money to win in California, and DeVore has proven he cannot raise money.
DeVore and Fiorina are tied right now, according to a recent poll, but while he has been running at full speed, she hasn’t. That changes now – and DeVore is most likely done.
*Media Advisory*
November 3, 2009
Contact: Julie Soderlund/Cristina Minasian, 916-551-1383
Event Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Carly Fiorina To Make Major Announcement
Garden Grove, CA— Carly Fiorina will make a major announcement on Wednesday at one of Orange County’s leading businesses, Earth Friendly Products, in Garden Grove. Carly will make a major announcement and take questions from the audience during a town-hall style forum. Carly is the former CEO of Hewlett Packard and has served as an advisor to Senator John McCain.
WHO: Carly Fiorina
WHAT: Carly Fiorina to make major announcement at town hall-style forum
WHEN: Wednesday, November 4, 2009
10:00 AM
WHERE: Earth Friendly Products
12570 Industry Street
Garden Grove, CA 92841
This event will be live web cast at www.carlyforCA.com.
Following the event, Carly will hold a brief media availability.
Credentialed media only.
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Jon Fleischman has posted Fiorina’s campaign team, as follows:
TEAM CARLY
Campaign Manager: Marty Wilson of Wilson-Miller Communications (pictured)
Finance Director: Cassandra Vandenberg of Vandenberg & Associates
Media Director: Fred Davis of Strategic Perception
Senior Advisors: Beth Miller of Wilson-Miller Communications, John Peschong of Meridian Pacific, and Joe Shumate of Shumate and Associates
Polling & Research: Dave Sackett of The Tarrance Group
Website & Social Media: Becky Donatelli and Chuck DeFeo of Campaign Solutions
On-Line Media Director: Liz Mair of Hynes Communications
Coalitions Director: Kristen Vellandi of Visable Outreach
Scheduling: Jennifer Driscoll
Okay, I’m serious here… How do we get Sarah Palin, Glenn, Rush, and the rest of Fox interested in this race? They need to chopper in and give an assist to their comrade Chuck like they did out in NY-23. Carly is a total RINO, but Chuck is the real deal! Can some folks with better GOP bonafides than I make some calls or e-mails? I want to run against Chuck, not Carly!
So what will Chucky do when he loses? Does he has some paid gig promised to him by Rep.’s to fall back on? Chuck seems like a nice enough fellow but no one knows him and his campaign never got any traction.
“No one knows him?” Bloggers know him, he’s always over at the Liberal OC kicking up the dirt with the boyz there. And he’s easy to meet, I talked to him for a while up in Sacramento (before Juice-Brother Larry ran up panting, “He’s not on our side, Chuck, he’s not on our side!”)
Who knows Carly anyway, she’s a corporate drone.
I keep hearing how Carly is a RINO but after reading her interview with Fleischman I don’t see it. Vern can you tell me how she’s a RINO or are you just making stuff up?
Rich, good question. If you are not the most EXTREME wacked-out fringe lunatic in the race, you are considered the RINO. And I get a point or two for being ahead of the curve today; lookee at this, just an hour ago, from
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/11/ask_not_for_whom_the_teabag_tolls.php?ref=fpblg
Ask Not For Whom the Teabag Tolls
Josh Marshall | November 4, 2009, 1:38PM
I thought the next teabagger scalp was going to be Charlie Crist in Florida. But it turns out it’s Carly Fiorina out in California. That according to arch-Tea Party Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, who held a conference call last night with RedState.com’s Erick Erickson.
Barbara Boxer’s decision to put these two on the payroll seems to be paying real dividends.
OK, let’s click on THAT link:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/senate-conservatives-fund-picks-sides-in-ca-as-demint-backs-devore.php
A California Republican aiming to unseat Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) next year has gotten a boost from conservative Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC).
DeMint announced last night his Senate Conservatives Fund was endorsing state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore over former Hewlett Packard chief Carly Fiorina. The group supports only “rock solid” conservatives, organizers told supporters on a conference call last night as election results came in.
DeVore “will work with me to shake things up,” DeMint said, and “vote the right way …
stand up in our conference meetings and say, ‘Folks this is wrong let’s turn this thing around.'”
DeMint’s fund already has endorsed Republican senate candidates Marco Rubio in Florida and Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania.
He urged supporters to directly donate to the DeVore campaign.
“California is ready for a turn back to freedom,” DeMint said. He said DeVore has a “record straight up the way mine is” and applauded the candidate for flying to Washington to meet him.
The news comes as Fiorina officially entered the race via an editorial in the Orange County Register where she asked “those who expect more from our government to join me in making a change for the better.”
Erick Erickson, editor of RedState.com, also appeared on the call and noted that DeVore served in the Reagan White House. He criticized Fiorina for backing the stimulus and noted recent polling showing both of the candidates are within 10 points of Boxer.
DeMint targeted Boxer in her role as chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee and said she is “surprisingly vulnerable for a Democrat running in such a blue state.”
He said Boxer would “add to the cost of living” with her climate bill and would “cost Americans a lot of jobs.”
The Republican primary is June 8, 2010.
The group took a snap poll via telephone of the callers on the line and 78 percent said they would back DeVore while just 5 percent said they supported Fiorina. The rest were undecided.
OUR Chuckie, the next Doug Hoffman – I’m lovin’ it!
(Sorry, this probably deserves its own post, but I’m working on a couple other things; Red, Art? I don’t mind)
Fiorina is Boxer in drag.
There ya go, take it from the Rogue Elephant – he knows rhinos when he sees ’em!
Is Carly just as hostile to the LGBT community as Chuckie?
Probably not, Matt, given her background in business and high tech. Still – don’t be surprised to see her start to try to PROVE she is, now that Chuckie’s been adopted by the Teabagging ring of the GOP!
I found out she likes the idea of keeping DOMA, but didnt mind offering DP’s at HP. But if she openly pledge to support ENDA and the DADT repeal I will support her.