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Carly Fiorina has emerged as the Republican candidate of the moment in conservative fundraising circles, drawing the notice of the billionaire Koch brothers and other wealthy donors who could instantly remake her shoestring presidential campaign.
Fiorina's show-stealing performance in a Republican presidential debate last month, and her subsequent surge in the polls, has prompted industrialists Charles and David Koch to take a serious look at the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive, according to three sources close to the brothers.
She has now moved to the short list of candidates the Kochs may support with their reported $1 billion war chest, the sources said. Florida Senator Marco Rubio is among those on the coveted list, the sources said.
A spokesman for the Kochs declined to comment
Other politically powerful mega donors are also lining up.
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/10/after-scott-walker-koch-brothers-now
Botany
(70,501 posts)In 1999, a dysfunctional HP board committee, filled with its own poisoned politics, hired her with no CEO experience, nor interviews with the full board. Fired in 2005, after six years in office, several leading publications titled her one of the worst technology CEOs of all time. In fact, the stock popped 10% on the news of her firing and closed the day up 7%.
http://fortune.com/2015/08/14/carly-fiorina-president-2/
snooper2
(30,151 posts)It'll dry up soon enough
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Archae
(46,326 posts)Cheapskate, and greedy.
Fiorina Withheld Final Paycheck From Widow Of Worker Who Died
Famed California pollster Joe Shumate was found dead in his home one month before Election Day 2010, surrounded by sheets of polling data he labored over for the flailing Senate bid of Carly Fiorina.
Upon his death, Fiorina praised Shumate as "the heart and soul" of her team. She issued a news release praising him as a person who believed in "investing in those he worked with" and offering her "sincerest condolences" to his widow.
But records show there was something that Fiorina did not offer his widow: Shumate's last paycheck, for at least $30,000. It was one of more than 30 invoices, totaling about $500,000, that the multimillionaire didn't settle - even as Fiorina reimbursed herself nearly $1.3 million she lent the campaign. She finally cleared most of the balance in January, a few months before announcing her run for president.
"Occasionally, I'd call and tell her she should pay them," said Martin Wilson, Fiorina's former campaign manager, who found Shumate after the pollster collapsed from a heart attack. "She just wouldn't."
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/10/fiorina-withheld-final-paycheck-widow