Even as Carly Fiorina officially filed papers on Monday to run in the Republican primary for the Senate seat held by Barbara Boxer, the Democratic incumbent, Ms. Fiorina faced a broadside from a Packard relative who’s supporting a rival.The letter, indeed scathing, is here.
The filing itself was no surprise — Ms. Fiorina, a former chief executive of Hewlett Packard, had announced her candidacy last year and is engaged in a three-way battle for the G.O.P. nomination.
But the formality has been overshadowed by the release of a scathing letter written by Arianna Packard, the granddaughter of David Packard, a co-founder of the technology giant HP, to Republican senators who had endorsed Ms. Fiorina.
“I know a little bit about Carly Fiorina, having watched her almost destroy the company my grandfather founded,” wrote Ms. Packard, who is backing Orange County Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, a Republican and Tea Party favorite. (RedState posted the full Packard letter online.)
Ms. Fiorina has made her business experience a central tenet of her campaign. Ms. Packard wrote the letter in response to an endorsement of Ms. Fiorina by Senators Jon Kyl of Arizona, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and James Inhofe of Oklahoma that touted Ms. Fiorina’s “real-world business experience and the guts and moxie to take on Barbara Boxer and win.”
And at Red State, "The Packards Want Carly Fiorina to Pack It In."
0 comments:
Post a Comment