Carly Fiorina

Report: Fiorina Oversaw Unstable Deals While Leading '90s Telecom

Rachel Slajda | October 15, 2010, 11:14AM

Carly Fiorina

Fortune is out with a story today on California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina (R), reporting that she orchestrated unstable deals in an effort to grow the telecom company she lead in the 1990s as quickly as possible -- and make headlines.

Fiorina has run largely on her experience leading Hewlett Packard. But before she joined HP, she worked for a telecom company called Lucent Technologies.

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American Principles Project

Anti-Gay Groups Throw Support Behind Fiorina, Target Latino Voters

Ryan J. Reilly | October 4, 2010, 10:52AM

The non-profit group American Principles In Action is supporting Carly Fiorina in her campaign for U.S. Senate.

The American Principles Project, founded by conservative Princeton professor Robert P. George as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, has partnered with its sister organization, the 501(c)(4) American Principles In Action, to promote a bus trip aimed at engaging Latino voters for Carly Fiorina's campaign for U.S. Senate called "Vote Your Values (Vota Tus Valores)." Both organizations originally made headlines by accusing President Barack Obama's Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Department of Education's Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools, Kevin Jennings, of promoting a "radical gay agenda" in schools.

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Orly Taitz

Republican Jewish Coalition Hosts Birther Taitz As 'Special Guest' At Annual Bash

Justin Elliott | June 7, 2010, 6:20PM

Orly Taitz

Witness the mainstreaming of Orly Taitz?

The longtime Birther agitator and dentist who is now running for the GOP secretary of state nomination in California was a "special guest" of the Republican Jewish Coalition at the group's "annual summer bash" at the Beverly Hills Hilton Sunday. Also in attendance: GOP heavyweights Karl Rove, former Senator Norm Coleman, and California Senate candidates Chuck DeVore and Carly Fiorina.

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Mark Meckler

Top Tea Party Leader Was Paid By GOP Biz Group's Campaign

Zachary Roth | March 3, 2010, 11:35AM

Tea Party Patriots leader Mark Meckler

A top Tea Party leader who has publicly distanced his group from the GOP was recently paid by a campaign run by an influential California Republican business organization, to gather signatures for a ballot initiative that's long been a key goal of the state party.

Mark Meckler, one of two national spokespeople for the Tea Party Patriots, was recently paid $7,500 for "petition circulation management" by the "Citizen Power Campaign Supported by the Lincoln Club of Orange County," according to state disclosure records. Meckler's involvement with the campaign was first reported last month by the website Red County.

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