Fiorina suggests California consider bankruptcy

[ccharles000]

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina suggested that the state of California should consider declaring bankruptcy, apparently unaware that states cannot do that under federal bankruptcy law.

The comments were first reported Tuesday in the Riverside Press-Enterprise. Fiorina, the former head of Hewlett-Packard, hosted a business roundtable at a cement plant in Colton, Calif., and a businessman asked her if the state should consider filing for bankruptcy.

"I think it should always be considered," Fiorina replied. "Whether that is the right approach now, I don't know. I think bankruptcy, as a possibility, at the very least focuses the mind on what has to be done to salvage a situation."

Under federal law, municipalities can declare bankruptcy, as Orange County notably did in 1994. But states do not have the same ability.

A spokesman for one of Fiorina’s rivals in the GOP race to take on incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer said the gaffe shows that Fiorina, who has never sought political office before and has failed to vote in many elections, is unprepared.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/02/fiorina-suggests-california-declare-bankruptcy.html

[Vincardog]

1. That is the same Fiorina that drove HP to the brink. Is that the best they have? GO PUBLICANS,

[4lbs]

10. No, Meg Whitman seems to be the main Repuke candidate for the CA Governor's job.

I've seen her ads running for the past several weeks.

[KingFlorez]

2. First demon sheep, now this

I tell you, Carly is on a roll here.

[8 track mind]

5. I laughed so hard at that ad.

I lost it when the lamb with the glowing eyes appeared.

[tishaLA]

3. Boy do I hope old Carly gets the nomination

Let her use those multimillions to stimulate the economy and then lose to Sen Boxer.

[zulchzulu]

4. Calry thinks California is Hewlett Packard... dumbass... n/t

[JoePhilly]

6. This is an article that explains how to CRUSH Fiorina!!!

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/06/20/fiorina-history/

Fiorina is found of calling "out-sourcing" .... "right-shoring".

Bye-bye American jobs!!

[avaistheone1]

7. Fiorina is a disaster. The woman had no idea what she was doing at HP.

Fiorina drove HP into the ground and walked away with golden parachute worth tens of millions of dollars. She has shown no interest in being a responsible citizen given she has voted in an election perhaps once or twice in her life. Why we would expect Fiorina to be a good choice for California?

Hell no to Fiorina.

[CreekDog]

8. So this is what all her experience in business taught her? Bankruptcy? FOR A STATE???

Bankrupt, utterly bankrupt. :eyes:

[Hekate]

9. ROFLMAO. Has Senator Boxer got a mole in the Fiorina campaign apparatus? !

:rofl:

Hekate

[Hippo_Tron]

17. No, everything Carly Fiorina touches goes to shit

First HP, then the McCain campaign. It's only natural that her own Senate campaign would follow.

[tanyev]

11. OK, so that won't work. Why don't you call up Sarah Palin for some more ideas, Carly?

I hear she's just full of them.

[davidpdx]

19. When I read it my first thought was, this is as bad as Sarah Palin

trying to explain foreign policy. I think we may have been thinking about the same thing.

[stevedeshazer]

12. What an airhead.

Thanks, ccharles000.

:hi:

[Canuckistanian]

13. California suggests Fiorina consider psychotherapy

Followed by a regimen of high colonic cephaloecetomy treatments.

[BlueIdaho]

14. You know there's a reason the McCain campaign sent her into the wilderness

She is one dumb bunny.

[customerserviceguy]

15. Not surprising to me

She didn't bother to vote most of the time, and she ran two companies squarely into the ground (remember the old days when a Hewlett-Packard printer was as dependable as an anvil?) why wouldn't she try the most epic fail solution?

Even the reich wingers don't like her, as I recall from lurking on the Freeper site during the election.

[MrScorpio]

16. Next, she'll try to hock California at the nearest pawn shop

"How much just the state?"

[Born_A_Truman]

18. Next she'll want to merge with Nevada and Spin Off SoCal