Carly gets DC GOP love for Senate bid -- rival DeVore roils

[ccharles000]

Carly Fiorina's exploratory GOP Senate run got some love Tuesday from the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) -- that's a national party group that decides which races to toss its money to. In a state-of-the-race memo sent to GOP senators Tuesday, Sen John Cornyn praised...

"...two strong female candidates -- Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire and Carly Fiorina in California -- continue to seriously consider bids of their own, and both poll closely with their respective Democrat opponents without having formally entered their races."

But you gotta love the response from Carla's potential rival, Orange County Assemblyman Chuck DeVore:

"I welcome Senator Cornyn's endorsement of Carly Fiorina, my probable opponent for the Republican nomination to defeat Barbara Boxer in 2010. Under John Cornyn, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has racked up an impressive string of endorsements in support of non-conservative, unpopular, poorly vetted candidates across the nation. These candidacies have thus far gone on to flounder or implode."

So much for scoring any NRSC cash -- at least until the general election -- eh, Chuck D from the OC? He's not alone in the thinking the NRSC is constantly dissing conservative candidates. Check out this site, called "Not One Red Cent" which rips the NRSC for its "betrayal of the conservative grassroots!"

The NRSC's Brian Walsh tells us that the organization has had "60,000 new, first time donors to the NRSC this year" and the "Committee has raised 30 percent more money than at this time two years ago."

Even though Team Fiorina, er Exploratory Team Fiorina declined to weigh in on this one, the California GOP Senate race is officially ON.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=47131

[davidpdx]

1. Maybe she can lay a whole bunch of people off half way through the campaign to cut costs

Nothing like putting more people on the the unemployment line. While HP has rebounded in recent years, her tenure there was very rocky.