Boxer, a Democrat running for her fourth term, dismissed Fiorina as a greedy executive whose positions on social issues put her out of sync with the state’s voters. Fiorina fought back, insisting that the only way to get the economy on track is to retire Boxer, the state’s “bitterly partisan” incumbent.
In the debate, held at St. Mary’s College in the San Francisco area, the candidates took questions both from a panel of journalists, as well as pre-recorded questions from California voters.
Boxer didn’t waste any time in attacking Fiorina for her tenure at HP, mentioning in her opening statement that Fiorina was “terminated” as CEO and that she “shipped 30,000 jobs overseas.”
And when discussing A.B. 32, the state’s energy and environmental legislation, Boxer said the measure is essential in keeping America ahead of other countries on energy — “but I guess my opponent is kind-of used to creating jobs in China and other places,” she quipped.
For her part, Fiorina insisted that Boxer and others in Washington don’t have what it takes to get California out of the economic crisis.
“We can grow our economy again, but it means we have to fight for private-sector jobs,” she said. “And, frankly, I don’t think there are enough people in Washington who even understand why private-sector jobs are created.”
The Republican moved to paint Boxer as a political opportunist, saying she uses issues as “political footballs” and takes positions because she is “just trying to create rhetoric.”
In a year in which three incumbent senators have already lost, the first voter-submitted question for Boxer addressed exactly that anti-establishment sentiment: “You’ve been in office three terms. Why don’t you let other people try?”
Boxer answered that every election is a chance for other people to try — and that each time she’s up for reelection, voters choose her because she “fights for people.”
But Fiorina insisted Boxer has been in the Senate long enough.
“Barbara Boxer has been in Washington, D.C. for 28 long years,” Fiorina said in her opening statement. “Barbara Boxer may say she is fighting for Californians, but the truth is she’s fighting hardest for another six years in Washington, D.C.”
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Senator BOXER KILLED more JOBS in 2008 than we could have handled, perhaps allowing jobs to have spilled into Mexico curtailing violence. The following is a report for Congress in DEC 2009 that explains that national ballast water legislation would do the same thing as tariffs. “Although estimates of the costs of ballast treatment may be imprecise and vary from vessel to
vessel, there is some general agreement on average costs.14 For example, it may cost an estimated $400,000 per vessel for modification of container/bulk vessels to use onshore ballast water treatment facilities at California ports. More generally, the cost of retrofitting vessels to treat
ballast water has been estimated at between $200,000 and $310,000 per vessel for mechanical
treatment and around $300,000 for chemical treatment.15 Most of this expense will be borne by
foreign shipping companies, as the U.S. flag fleet is a small percentage of the global fleet,16 and
likely passed along to consumers of products imported on these ships.”Now all we have is a Military plan. She has forced the states into legislative competition with each other while dealing with an international organization of primarily foreign economic interest. (IMO) Sadly she has promoted the grandiose plan of economic globalization over economic Americanization as a way to create jobs