“What I find remarkable is one of the chief contentions of her boosters is that somehow she has this tremendous name ID…[but] in four polls now, we’re in a statistical dead heat,” he said.
DeVore says that while he was in public service, Fiorina led Hewlett-Packard into the red – a claim she strongly disputes – and points to her voting record as evidence that she lacks political conviction. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Fiorina had voted in only five of eighteen elections she was eligible to vote in since 2000, with a voting record that’s just as spotty before that.
Fiorina has said that her voting record is inexcusable, but that she’s the only one who is capable of beating Barbara Boxer, and that California needs someone with her business experience.
“The things that matter to me… are what is it that I can do as a U.S. Senator to help create more opportunities and more jobs for the people of California, and what is it that I can do to make sure that they are taxed less, that government becomes smaller and that government becomes more transparent,” she said.