Former Fiorina Staffer: I’d Rather Go To Iraq Than Join Campaign For Prez

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive, talks with a guest during an N.H. High Tech Council event in Manchester, N.H., Friday, May 8, 2015. Fiorina, who ran for a... Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive, talks with a guest during an N.H. High Tech Council event in Manchester, N.H., Friday, May 8, 2015. Fiorina, who ran for a Senate seat in California and lost to incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, emerged as one of the Republican Party's most aggressive Clinton critics in the weeks leading up to this week's announcement of her candidacy. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) MORE LESS
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Carly Fiorina’s fledgling presidential campaign could encounter a major early obstacle – the long memories of her former staffers.

Fiorina, who’s worth an estimated $120 million, didn’t pay high-ranking staffers who worked on her failed 2010 bid for California Senate for more than four years, Reuters found, and she only settled the debts just months before launching her presidential campaign.

As a result, nearly half of her former staffers said they wouldn’t enlist for Fiorina 2016. One anonymous staffer went as far as to quip, “I’d rather go to Iraq than work for Carly Fiorina again.”

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  1. Its as if she is the HP-Compaq of candidates or something…

  2. and she only settled the debts just months before she launching her presidential campaign.

    I guess proofreading isn’t a big deal at TPM. Is it just me,or is the quality of writing going down hill?

  3. Avatar for dnl dnl says:

    Coming soon to elections near you…

    Koch Industries running for President.

    Rallying cry “Corporations are people, my friends.”

  4. I am waiting for her face to slough off…

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