California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina left the hospital today and expects to resume campaigning Thursday.
Fiorina was admitted to a hospital Tuesday for treatment of an infection stemming from her post-breast cancer reconstructive surgery. Her chief of staff, Deborah Bowker, said doctors have given the GOP candidate a green light to continue her fight to unseat Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer.
While Fiorina remained in the hospital, her campaign released a new web video Tuesday attacking Boxer for her close ties to Cisco Systems and the company’s CEO. Campaign finance records indicate that since 1989, the tech giant’s staff and the company’s PAC have donated more than $73,000 to Boxer.
The spot is designed to counter Boxer’s consistent assertions that Fiorina outsourced jobs to other countries when she was CEO of Hewlett Packard.
In the piece, a narrator attacks Boxer for “pandering” to Cisco, calls her a “typical lifelong politician,” and accuses the senator of hypocrisy: “Barbara Boxer loves to complain about companies that ship jobs overseas. So why is she giving a speech at Cisco when they repeatedly outsourced jobs to countries like India?”
The video alleges that Cisco has sent thousands of jobs to other countries. The company says almost half its employees work overseas, but maintains that it works to increase employment in the United States.
Source:http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/fiorina-leaves-hospital-hits-boxer-on-outsourcing-20101027
