Barbara Boxer and Carly Fiorina Trade Barbs in First California Senate Debate

ajp91911:48 AM Sep 2, 2010 Don't blame a U.S. Senator for state problems. ********** What state does Boxer represent?...

Funny, I lived in Cali for a while. I met very many conservatives while I was there. The northern part of the state seemed to be very conservative... as did the extreme southern. The Hollywoodiacs exihibit very conservative actions related to thier fianances, as they go begging thier servants and maintenance personnel to give many dollars to whatever cause the Hollywoodiacs endorse. Meanwhile they take deductions for time, fuel, compensation loss[just for showing up at a "cause" event. Thereby laying again, those expenses on the backs of the "small" people. Yet thousands come worship at the alter of the red carpet whenever like Moses they come down from the mountain and grace them with presence. Boxer ain't the big problem... people and thier "PRIORITIES" is. People need to educate themselves to the fact, there are people out there that will take everything you own... for there own... and laff in your face for your stupidity. I think the author here knows very well of what I speak. Please God, let this pass PC muster. Amen

Boxer is our gal!!

Amen, lolajo. Republican legislators have been acted like U-boat commanders, shooting torpedoes at the ship of state and then complaining that the boat is sinking.

How many jobs has California lost in the past 18 years due to high taxes and regulation? Many jobs went to neighbor states Arizona and Nevada. Alot went out of the country to Mexico, Brazil and China. A drop in the bucket to what Fiorino could have done as an exec trying to keep the business afloat in an oppressive, anti business climate found in California. Where were all of the tax relief bills that Boxer could have sponsored to keep jobs in the US and California. She has done nothing to help either! I'm happy to have had the chance to vote against her once before leaving the state for a better job climate. California, save yourself and America!! KNOCKOUT THE BOXER!!!!

Your political web-site's polls are out-of-date. On August 25, 2010, Rasmussen poll shows: Boxer 44%, Fiorina 43%. After the debate, I'll bet Fiorina has the edge.

Boxer has along history has of voting "party" first, her interests next and finally what is good for the state Lobbyists". I will say this can be said of both parties. But, if the "change and outsider is what got Obama elected, those same voters need to look at Boxer and realize "Old Guard" by the book politician. Its time for her to go.

Barbara Boxer has been an ineffective Senator for far too long, and she must GO! She has been a "hand-raising robot" for Dem party, regarless the issues or their merits. She brought nothing good to California, but brought bad Fed laws which was detrimental to the economy of California. In the last her re-election, Repubs foolishly put a guy (son of secreatary of treasury March Fung) who couldn't possibly be elected. Boxer is a smooth talker, but it's always talks only. Hope this is the time finally to dump Boxer for the good of CA and America.

I believe Carly Fiorina would be a terrible choice for California. As a sales executive at Lucent, she employed tactics which made her look good in the short term, but it turned out to be more like Enron accounting. At HP, jobs were outsourced under Carly which unfortunately is not really that unusual for an American company. The layoffs were terrible for employees, and to make the situation worse they were handled very poorly. In the past, front line supervisors had input into these types of decisions. Under Carly’s outsourcing it came from the top down with little or no lower level input. This just alienated more employees and made the problem worse. The employees really began to despise her not only for the outsourcing, but for her imperial management style. For example, she had her portrait hung in the corporate headquarters right up next to the company’s founders. Bill Hewett and Dave Packard built the company from nothing and were revered by the employees. Bill and Dave pioneered the idea of management by walking around, getting out and talking with employees to find out what was going on. Carly was good at staging campaign style rallies with employees, but these became viewed as propaganda events with no real substance. Carly ended getting bodyguards because she was so unpopular with employees. Morale at the company plummeted, and the stock price was eviscerated. When the company was not achieving its financial goals she would blame everyone else around her, she never took any responsibility for her actions or the company’s problems. The board of directors eventually fired her. I did a graduate research paper on leadership, and was surprised about how weak and inept Carly was for HP. Going into the research I though I would find examples and arguments of strong leadership, but it was hard to find anything positive.

The debate was embarrassingly controlled by a bunch of partisan lefties. It was "moderated" by a leftist partisan, Randy Shandobil, who interjected himself to attack Fiorina. The "panel" doing the "questioning" were three far-left partisan "reporters" (S.F. Chron's Carla Marinucci, KQED's Scott Shafer and Pilar Marrero of La Opinión). Their loaded questions were from far-left viewpoints. (I was particularly amused by Shafer's question premised on Obama being half-way through his "first term"! LOL!) There were no tough questions addressed to Boxer. The "viewers" questions chosen by the lefties were easy on Boxer and tough on Fiorina. Fiorina was impressive and gracious throughout, despite the obviously prejudiced questioning from the lefties running the show.