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California Republican Fiorina prepares to challenge Senator Boxer
Carly Fiorina, former Chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, addresses the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 3, 2008.
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California Republican Fiorina prepares to challenge Senator Boxer
California Republican Fiorina prepares to challenge Senator Boxer
The election is more than a year away, but a wealthy California Republican is preparing to challenge three-term Democratic U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer. KPCC’s Washington Correspondent Kitty Felde reports.
Step one when you run for office is telling the Internal Revenue Service you might run. On Tuesday, former Hewlett-Packard boss Carly Fiorina did just that. She’s already talking like a Republican candidate for the Senate.
In a written statement, Fiorina said Californians have “serious concerns about job creation, economic growth, and the role of government in solving problems.” A decade ago, Fortune magazine dubbed Fiorina the “most powerful woman in American business.” But slumping PC sales led HP’s board of directors to push her out of the computer company’s top job three years ago.
One Republican has already jumped into the U.S. Senate race, but Irvine Assemblyman Chuck DeVore can’t match Fiorina’s fame and fortune. If she wins the GOP Senate nomination in June, Fiorina will have a tough fight in November. The last time Barbara Boxer ran for re-election in 2004, Bush and Kerry were the only candidates in the country to win more votes than she did.
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