Carly Fiorina’s team is fighting back after recent criticism of her from Donald Trump and others. In an email to reporters, spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores responds to each claim:
Twitter rants
Donald Trump has spent the last 36 hours tweeting up a storm about Carly. She gives him a “big, fat, beautiful headache.” She’s a “robot.” She is “terrible at business.” She got “softballs” at the debate. His advisor bizarrely claims we’ve outsourced our campaign to India.
We get the point, Mr. Trump. You’re worried. You should be. You’ll be seeing a lot more of that face.
Fact checkers forget to watch Planned Parenthood videos
The Left went apoplectic during the debate when Carly told 23 million Americans about the Planned Parenthood videos they’d been desperately trying to downplay. They’ve said no such image of a 19-week old aborted baby kicking for life in a metal pan existed. That Carly had simply made the whole thing up.
Here is what Carly said at the debate:
“I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, to watch these tapes. Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.'”
Now read this.
Now watch this at the 5:56 minute mark.
It is worth noting that Planned Parenthood has never denied that they have kept babies alive to harvest their organs. They’ve simply said there’s no video of it. Why isn’t that the news story?
Spoiler Alert: Carly lost in 2010
Yep. Carly lost her senate race against Barbara Boxer by 10 points in 2010. She ran as a pro-life conservative in a deep blue state with 7.5 million registered Democrats. She forced the Democrats to spend $30 million to defend what they thought was a safe seat, which was money they couldn’t spend on other races that cycle. President Obama was forced to fly out 4 times, and Barbara Boxer called it the toughest, hardest fight of her career. This was a fight worth having.
Donald Trump says this makes Carly a loser. The better question is why did Mr. Trump donate money to Hillary Clinton instead of running against her?
Jeff Sonnenfeld
For over a decade, this guy’s entire career has been predicated on criticizing Carly’s. Mind you, he’s never stepped into the arena as a CEO himself or even run a business. But he does seem to love going on TV. It certainly looks easier to sit in the cheap seats and throw peanuts. Or maybe he’s just a cold and timid soul.
He hasn’t denied that he is a longtime friend of the Clintons. Or that he tends to say favorable things about CEOs that provide financial support to his biannual CEO summit. And before Mr. Trump cited him as a reputable source, there was that time Trump said Sonnenfeld “lacks the insight required to understand the architecture of a corporation.”
I’ll give Sonnenfeld this: He would know something about getting fired. Of course, his was for vandalism of school property while he was at Emory.
HP: Invent
There’s a lot of armchair CEO’ing going on around here. And some folks seem to have taken the “Invent” motto to mean they get to invent their own facts. So I’ve created a top 10 list for y’all:
1. The board hired Carly as a change agent because HP was struggling and stagnating by 1999.
2. After the tech bubble, the NASDAQ crashed 80 percent. The NASDAQ didn’t recover until April of this year. Competitors like Gateway and Sun Microsystems ceased to exist while HP survived and grew.
3. Carly saved 80,000 jobs and grew to 150,000 jobs by 2005.
4. During her tenure, Carly doubled revenues to more than $80 billion, tripled innovation, quadrupled cash flow and more than quadrupled the growth rate. HP went from a Fortune 28 to a Fortune 11 company.
5. After the Compaq merger, HP went from #4 in PCs to #1 and #3 in servers to #1. HP doubled its market share in PCs and servers during her tenure.
6. The Compaq merger was a success. It was not just about PCs; it was about creating a one-stop shop for integrated systems for customers.
7. Walter Hewlett approved the merger, then opposed the merger when he realized it would hurt the short term interests of his family foundation.
8. In 2005, HP’s revenue was larger than the general funds of each of the 50 states and its stock was outperforming the S&P technology index.
9. Here’s the oped from the guy who fired her.
10. After Carly was fired, HP would go on to become the first $100 billion technology company. In HP’s recent third quarter earnings, one of the bright spots of the report was the growth of the server segment, which was credited to the HP/Compaq merger.
Final thought: Layoffs are tough. They require tough decisions about what is necessary for the health and future of a company. A lot of Americans wish someone were making those tough decisions in Washington instead of simply piling on the spending year after year. Some in Washington want to call Carly mean? That’s because they’ve been going along with the status quo in Washington their entire careers and are terrified Carly might come in and stop the gravy train. Instead of simply arguing over the rate of growth in taxpayer spending, Carly would move to zero-based budgeting so we actually knew where our money was being spent. Instead of revenue neutral tax proposals, Carly would only accept revenue reducing tax proposals.
From Secretary to CEO
I can’t believe I have to write this, but here it is: Carly was a secretary. Really. During her summers at college, she worked for a temp agency (Kelly Services…aka Kelly Girls) and did secretarial work for a number of companies, including HP. After dropping out of law school, Carly worked full time as a secretary at a 9-person real estate firm named Marcus and Millichap. The point being, again, she was a secretary.
Donald Trump has spent the last 36 hours tweeting up a storm about Carly. She gives him a “big, fat, beautiful headache.” She’s a “robot.” She is “terrible at business.” She got “softballs” at the debate. His advisor bizarrely claims we’ve outsourced our campaign to India.
We get the point, Mr. Trump. You’re worried. You should be. You’ll be seeing a lot more of that face.
Fact checkers forget to watch Planned Parenthood videos
The Left went apoplectic during the debate when Carly told 23 million Americans about the Planned Parenthood videos they’d been desperately trying to downplay. They’ve said no such image of a 19-week old aborted baby kicking for life in a metal pan existed. That Carly had simply made the whole thing up.
Here is what Carly said at the debate:
“I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, to watch these tapes. Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.'”
Now read this.
Now watch this at the 5:56 minute mark.
It is worth noting that Planned Parenthood has never denied that they have kept babies alive to harvest their organs. They’ve simply said there’s no video of it. Why isn’t that the news story?
Spoiler Alert: Carly lost in 2010
Yep. Carly lost her senate race against Barbara Boxer by 10 points in 2010. She ran as a pro-life conservative in a deep blue state with 7.5 million registered Democrats. She forced the Democrats to spend $30 million to defend what they thought was a safe seat, which was money they couldn’t spend on other races that cycle. President Obama was forced to fly out 4 times, and Barbara Boxer called it the toughest, hardest fight of her career. This was a fight worth having.
Donald Trump says this makes Carly a loser. The better question is why did Mr. Trump donate money to Hillary Clinton instead of running against her?
Jeff Sonnenfeld
For over a decade, this guy’s entire career has been predicated on criticizing Carly’s. Mind you, he’s never stepped into the arena as a CEO himself or even run a business. But he does seem to love going on TV. It certainly looks easier to sit in the cheap seats and throw peanuts. Or maybe he’s just a cold and timid soul.
He hasn’t denied that he is a longtime friend of the Clintons. Or that he tends to say favorable things about CEOs that provide financial support to his biannual CEO summit. And before Mr. Trump cited him as a reputable source, there was that time Trump said Sonnenfeld “lacks the insight required to understand the architecture of a corporation.”
I’ll give Sonnenfeld this: He would know something about getting fired. Of course, his was for vandalism of school property while he was at Emory.
HP: Invent
There’s a lot of armchair CEO’ing going on around here. And some folks seem to have taken the “Invent” motto to mean they get to invent their own facts. So I’ve created a top 10 list for y’all:
1. The board hired Carly as a change agent because HP was struggling and stagnating by 1999.
2. After the tech bubble, the NASDAQ crashed 80 percent. The NASDAQ didn’t recover until April of this year. Competitors like Gateway and Sun Microsystems ceased to exist while HP survived and grew.
3. Carly saved 80,000 jobs and grew to 150,000 jobs by 2005.
4. During her tenure, Carly doubled revenues to more than $80 billion, tripled innovation, quadrupled cash flow and more than quadrupled the growth rate. HP went from a Fortune 28 to a Fortune 11 company.
5. After the Compaq merger, HP went from #4 in PCs to #1 and #3 in servers to #1. HP doubled its market share in PCs and servers during her tenure.
6. The Compaq merger was a success. It was not just about PCs; it was about creating a one-stop shop for integrated systems for customers.
7. Walter Hewlett approved the merger, then opposed the merger when he realized it would hurt the short term interests of his family foundation.
8. In 2005, HP’s revenue was larger than the general funds of each of the 50 states and its stock was outperforming the S&P technology index.
9. Here’s the oped from the guy who fired her.
10. After Carly was fired, HP would go on to become the first $100 billion technology company. In HP’s recent third quarter earnings, one of the bright spots of the report was the growth of the server segment, which was credited to the HP/Compaq merger.
Final thought: Layoffs are tough. They require tough decisions about what is necessary for the health and future of a company. A lot of Americans wish someone were making those tough decisions in Washington instead of simply piling on the spending year after year. Some in Washington want to call Carly mean? That’s because they’ve been going along with the status quo in Washington their entire careers and are terrified Carly might come in and stop the gravy train. Instead of simply arguing over the rate of growth in taxpayer spending, Carly would move to zero-based budgeting so we actually knew where our money was being spent. Instead of revenue neutral tax proposals, Carly would only accept revenue reducing tax proposals.
From Secretary to CEO
I can’t believe I have to write this, but here it is: Carly was a secretary. Really. During her summers at college, she worked for a temp agency (Kelly Services…aka Kelly Girls) and did secretarial work for a number of companies, including HP. After dropping out of law school, Carly worked full time as a secretary at a 9-person real estate firm named Marcus and Millichap. The point being, again, she was a secretary.
