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Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina to Run for U.S. Senate

Source: Mashable!

Nov 04, 2009

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Carly Fiorina, former chief executive at Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, is expected to announce this morning her candidacy for the U.S. Senate in California. She’ll be gunning for the Republican nomination against Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, and if successful would go up against Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer as she seeks a fourth Senate term.

She goes into detail about her reasons for entering the political fray in a letter to the OC Register, stating that as a California senator, “economic recovery and fiscal accountability will be my priorities.”

The pioneering female executive, first at AT&T and later at HP, has also been a book author and breast cancer survivor. In an interview with John Battelle at the recent Web 2.0 Summit (embedded below), she speaks at length about how the former experience positions her to bring business and technical knowledge into play in the political sphere, and the latter gives her unique perspective into health care reform as that issue comes to the forefront of American politics.

Check out the video below, where Carly disc

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