Friday’s New York Times profiles Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard on her major role as an advisor and flack for John McCain.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/us/politics/06fiorina.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
The story notes that she was fired by HP, paid $42 million to walk away and is “widely criticized for mismanaging one of Silicon Valley’s legendary companies.”
Fiorina defended her tenure at HP by saying –
“Well, see, the good news about business is, results count,” Ms. Fiorina, 53, responded briskly in a recent interview in her office at Republican National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill. “And the results have been very clear. The results have been crystal clear. From the day I was fired, every quarter, even before they had a new C.E.O., has been record after record. That doesn’t happen unless the foundation’s been built.”
Under Fiorina’s theory, we New Yorkers should re-evaluate and applaud David Dinkins tenure as Mayor, since like Fiorina, Dinkins can claim that after he was fired by the voters, the results have also been crystal clear, the City’s crime rate has gone down, the economy has grown, welfare has been reduced, record after record.