...this week, Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor in California, said:
...the worst nightmare for status quo lawmakers was of “two businesswomen from the real world who know how to create jobs, balance budgets and get things done.”
I assume Ms. Whitman is referring to herself and Carly Fiorina, the Republican candidate for senator in California, who was the CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005. (This is the same person who worked with Ms. Whitman on John McCain's campaign for president in 2008; the two are said to hate each other.)
I haven't looked at Ms. Whitman's record at eBay just yet; I'll bet she did a fine job. But Ms. Fiorina eliminated 30,000 jobs in her tenure at HP and made 60% of the owners' equity in the firm disappear.
Is this what Ms. Whitman means when she says "creating jobs and getting things done?" Sounds more like a nightmare to me.
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