Carly Fiorina becomes persona non grata
September 17th, 2008 at 11:01am Pat Cunningham
 
Carly Fiorina (pictured above offering somebody what Fox News would call a terrorist fist-bump), an economics adviser to John McCain, REPORTEDLY will not likely appear on TV anytime soon as a surrogate for Mr. Straight Talk.
I guess it has something to do with Fiorina publicly suggesting that neither McCain nor Sarah Palin are qualified to run a major corporation.
There are several other interesting angles to all of this. Fiorina has shown that she, too, is unqualified to run a major corporation. She mismanaged Hewlett-Packard, the computer giant that lost half of its stock value while she was at the helm. And then, when she was fired, she got a SEVERANCE PACKAGE of more than $21 million.
That latter item doesn’t jibe well with McCain’s declaration of just yesterday that as president he would “stop multi-million- dollar payouts and golden parachutes to CEOs who break the public trust.”
Fiorina may not have violated any public trust, but still…
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1. Henry | September 17th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Pat - As a publicly traded company, owned by anyone who has shares of the company, the CEO and other top execs are obligated to run the company in an ethical way. That’s why Bernie Ebbers (MCI), Andrew Fastow (Enron), Jeff Skilling (Enron), Dennis Kozlowski (Tyco), Mark Swartz (Tyco), to name a few, are doing time in prison. Fiorina may not have done anything criminal, but she got booted for doing a miserable job for the shareholders, but others have.
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