Fiorina’s HP Mishaps Prompt Technology Executives to Back Boxer

[ccharles000]

June 18 (Bloomberg) -- Carly Fiorina, the former head of Hewlett-Packard Co., faces a wall of opposition from her Silicon Valley peers as she campaigns to win one of California’s U.S. Senate seats.

Her victory in the Republican primary last week puts Fiorina up against Democrat incumbent Barbara Boxer, a senator since 1993. Boxer has the financial support of local executives, including Cisco Systems Inc.’s John Chambers, Oracle Corp.’s Larry Ellison, Netflix Inc.’s Reed Hastings, and John Doerr from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Fiorina’s inability to win the backing of technology leaders contrasts with EBay Inc.’s former chief, Meg Whitman, who’s racking up funding from Silicon Valley in the state’s gubernatorial race. Fiorina’s lack of support, even from executives such as Chambers who are known to back Republicans, may reflect misgivings about her tenure at Hewlett-Packard, which lost half its market value on her watch. It also stiffens the challenge of beating a Democrat in a Democratic state.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-18/fiorina-s-hp-mishaps-prompt-technology-executives-to-back-boxer.html

[MadMaddie]

1. This is good news!

[Xipe Totec]

2. She's definitely a uniter nt

[Frances]

3. Good news for Boxer (and me)

But is Meg Whitman really collecting money in Silicon Valley?

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

4. Cara Sneed and Meg Whitman are both complete failures at all their corporate endevours

I am amazed they have the courage to show their faces in public, let alone campaign on their experience.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. "Mishaps" ?? Is that what they call it now ?

Or is it just that they can't print "royal fuck-ups" on the front page?