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NEWS ABOUT: Carly Fiorina

Carly Fiorina stories: 17 news summaries
ELECTION 2010



 Carly Fiorina 
 Launches Calif. 
 Senate Bid 

Ex-HP chief would face Dem incumbent Boxer

Nov 4, 09 10:07 AM CST
(AP) - Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina says she'll run for the US Senate seat held by California incumbent Barbara Boxer. Fiorina ended months of speculation today with an announcement in an opinion piece she wrote for the Orange County Register. She's scheduled to make a formal announcement later in the day.... More »

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Congress • Carly Fiorina • Barbara Boxer • Senate race • California primary • Congressional incumbents • Election 2010 • Hewlett-Packard • Senate seat

Fiorina Has Surgery for Breast Cancer

Former HP CEO, McCain adviser 'doing great': chief of staff

Mar 3, 09 11:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Ex-Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina had surgery yesterday in California after being diagnosed with breast cancer Feb. 20, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. “She's doing great," her chief of staff said. "She only just learned about this.” After a controversial stint at HP, Fiorina went on... More »

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California • breast cancer • surgery • Senate • Carly Fiorina • Hewlett-Packard

GLOSSIES

 2008 Hall of Infamy
Inductees 

A month-by-month gallery of the year's most ignominious figures

Dec 25, 08 8:21 PM CST
(Newser) - As we look back at the great people who made their mark this year, let us not forget to document the schlubby, the sneaky, and the just plain criminal. Vanity Fair has done the legwork, rounding up a month-by-month rogue's gallery. Some highlights:
  • January: Rudy Giuliani's Florida
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Rudy Giuliani • Robert Mugabe • politics • Eliot Spitzer • Carly Fiorina • Lipitor • Radovan Karadzic • Rod Blagojevich • Mark Penn • scandal • Robert Jarvik • He Kexin • Richard Fuld • Joe the Plumber • Best of 2008

(Newser) - Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard and a top financial adviser of John McCain, found herself backtracking in a hurry today after stating flatly that Sarah Palin—and later, John McCain—could not run a big company, the Boston Globe reports. Asked on a radio station whether she thought... More »

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John McCain • Carly Fiorina • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin

ANALYSIS

Her Golden Parachute Fine With McCain

'No analogy' between Fiorina's $45M from HP, subprime payouts

Sep 16, 08 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain and Sarah Palin made a point yesterday of blasting CEOs who left their companies with multimillion-dollar golden parachutes while workers and shareholders suffered. But McCain’s top economic adviser deployed just such a shiny parachute when Hewlett-Packard ousted her, ABC News reports. Carly Fiorina pocketed $45 million, even... More »

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John McCain • CEO • Bear Stearns • Freddie Mac • Fannie Mae • Countrywide • Carly Fiorina • golden parachutes • Hewlett-Packard

ANALYSIS

McCain, Aides Often
Part Ways on Policy

Politico documents the differences

Jul 31, 08 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Much has been made recently of John McCain’s difficulty in driving a message from his “eclectic and occasionally politically inconvenient hodgepodge of policy positions,” Politico says, but little has been said about how often the candidate’s top aides disagree with him. And while fewer public disagreements... More »

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climate change • John McCain • health insurance • tax cuts • No Child Left Behind • Carly Fiorina • Phil Gramm • Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Fiorina Hosts
NY Event for Hillary Funders

Dem malcontents pledge 'maybe millions' of votes for McCain

Jul 17, 08 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - About 25 disgruntled Hillary Clinton donors met Tuesday with a top adviser to John McCain, and promised “hundreds of thousands and maybe millions of votes” for the Republican—if their conditions were met. Carly Fiorina said the women she met in New York were “intensely uncomfortable with the... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Carly Fiorina • HillRaisers • maternity leave • equal pay

 Mac Pushes Gramm 
 Into the Background 

Economic adviser ripped for 'whiners' comment won't appear with candidate

Jul 14, 08 7:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s camp has considered Phil Gramm persona non grata since he called Americans "whiners" in a "mental recession" last week, the Washington Post reports. One adviser says he hasn’t spoken to the former senator, a confidante of the Republican on economic matters, “since the... More »

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John McCain • gaffe • Carly Fiorina • Phil Gramm • Whinergate

Mac Speechless on Fiorina Birth Control Slip

Can't say how he thinks insurers should handle contraceptives

Jul 10, 08 2:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - A full day after the blogosphere was lit up over Carly Fiorina’s decidedly un-conservative suggestion that health insurers should cover birth control, John McCain still had no comment when asked about it, the Wall Street Journal reports. And a decidedly awkward no-comment, at that:
  • McCain: “I certainly
... More »

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John McCain • health insurance • birth control • Carly Fiorina

Analysis

 Ex-HP Chief a Risky VP Choice 

But prominent McCain adviser has clear ambitions

Jul 9, 08 1:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Carly Fiorina sparked stunned silence when talking over breakfast yesterday about the unfairness of health insurance plans that cover Viagra, but not birth control. “These women would like a choice,” she said, despite the fact that her nominee, John McCain, voted against a proposal to mandate coverage. Dana... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • birth control • Viagra • vice president • Carly Fiorina • vice presidential sweepstakes

analysis

GOP Has Female VP Possibles, Too

Mulling Alaska Gov. Palin, ex-HP exec FIorina, Texas Sen. Hutchison

Jun 23, 08 4:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a post-Hillary age, a female candidate comes as less of a surprise on the national stage. Here are three women who could stand for John McCain’s vice-presidential slot, per Politico:
  • Carly Fiorina: The former Hewlett-Packard exec is already a trusted adviser and constant McCain surrogate, but she’
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Hillary Clinton • John McCain • foreign policy • social conservatives • Carly Fiorina • Election 2008 • Kay Bailey Hutchison • Sarah Palin

OPINION

Look Well Beyond Nov. in Picking Your Running Mate

Former Bush speechwriter suggests a McCain-Giuliani ticket

Jun 16, 08 3:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - It’s a myth that running mates put a ticket over the top, former Bush speechwriter David Frum writes in the New Republic—so John McCain might as well just look to the future of the Republican Party. "Keep in mind that, when you choose, you may well be... More »

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John McCain • Rudy Giuliani • Mike Huckabee • vice president • Carly Fiorina

McCain Makes Pointed Pitch to Women; Dems Skeptical 

With Clinton gone, women's-rights group quick to line up behind Obama

Jun 12, 08 1:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain is fine-tuning his pitch to women, and while Democrats voice doubt the Republican can find a female following, they’re nevertheless gearing up to make sure it doesn’t happen, the Washington Post reports. McCain sees opportunity in disappointed Hillary Clinton backers, and top adviser Carly Fiorina today... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Roe v. Wade • Planned Parenthood • Carly Fiorina • the female vote • Emily's List • equal pay

Carly Fiorina Puts Feminine Face on McCain Campaign

In exchange, ousted
HP CEO  gets rehab

Jun 6, 08 7:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The inner circle of advisers to John McCain is small, loyal—and almost completely male. But one woman has gained the candidate's respect and become a key surrogate for him in the media: Carly Fiorina, the ousted CEO of Hewlett-Packard. Each has something to gain—Fiorina is helping McCain with... More »

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John McCain • women • Republican candidate • Carly Fiorina • Hewlett-Packard

Analysis

Carly Gives McCain Eyes
in His Business Blind Spot

Presumptive GOP nominee leans heavily on former HP chief Fiorina

May 14, 08 7:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, is all John McCain could ever ask for in an ambassador to the business classes, Daniel Gross writes on Slate. For every bit of Mac’s personal discomfort talking about economic issues, Fiorina is pure ease—and might even be able to roll... More »

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John McCain • Carly Fiorina • McCain 2008 • George W. Bush • Hewlett-Packard

Economy's Woes Put McCain Advisers in Spotlight

Brain trust's credentials questioned in economic slump

Apr 2, 08 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain's choice of economic advisers is stirring up controversy, the Washington Post reports. Phil Gramm is vice-chairman of troubled UBS and oversaw widespread deregulation as chair of the Senate Banking Committee in the late 1990s, and Carly Fiorina was publicly ousted as CEO of Hewlett-Packard. In the current economic... More »

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John McCain • Carly Fiorina • McCain 2008 • economic adviser • economy • Phil Gramm

Ex-HP CEO Joins Fox Business

Fiorina will be on-air contributor when new network launches next week

Oct 10, 07 12:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina will be an on-air contributor to the new Fox Business Network when it launches next week, FBN said today. Fiorina headed HP from 1999 to 2005 and oversaw its buyout of Compaq before scandal led to her ouster. She will be a general business contributor... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • CNBC • Fox Business Network • Fox News • Fox • Carly Fiorina

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