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brooklynite

(94,703 posts)
Tue Aug 9, 2016, 02:39 PM Aug 2016

Carly Fiorina Plotting Bid to Chair Republican National Committee

Source: Time

Former HP CEO and 2016 presidential contender Carly Fiorina is actively laying the groundwork for a bid to be the next chair of the Republican National Committee, according to state GOP officials who have followed her plans.

Fiorina and her aides have plotted an aggressive season of travel this fall to states with and without close Republicans races as she looks to help down-ballot Republicans, but people familiar with the plans said she is also looking to curry favor with the influential 168 members of the Republican National Committee. In phone calls and emails, Fiorina has reached out to party chairs across the country as well as RNC committee-men and -women who will elect a successor to incumbent RNC chairman Reince Priebus in January.

“The past few months Carly has been helping out with major races around the country, I know she is planning to reach out to your party chairman in the next week or so, just to touch base and see if there is any way she could be helpful to Republicans in the [Insert State or Territory] this Fall,” a Fiorina advisor wrote to multiple state party executive directors in recent weeks.

What elevated Fiorina’s travel from popular surrogate and fundraiser to that of RNC chair candidate, according to multiple RNC members, was her outreach to the U.S. territories, a particularly powerful voting bloc within the RNC but fall way down on the party’s priority list for the fall. Another source noted that the domains CarlyForChair.com and CarlyForRNC.com were both registered on July 14 at the same time.

Read more: http://time.com/4445200/carly-fiorina-republican-national-committee-chair-reince-priebus/?xid=time_socialflow_twitter



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Carly Fiorina Plotting Bid to Chair Republican National Committee (Original Post) brooklynite Aug 2016 OP
ROFL ananda Aug 2016 #1
Then it will be 100% undeniable that they are all about the wimmen. nt onehandle Aug 2016 #2
Yes, very rich women! emulatorloo Aug 2016 #6
Given her track record, she'll finish off the GOP completely emulatorloo Aug 2016 #3
HP CEO + Bid to Chair Republican National Committee benld74 Aug 2016 #4
That should just about wrap it up for the party. liberal N proud Aug 2016 #5
Well that will serve well to finally end the GOP, last nail in the coffin, so to say! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2016 #7
Great! Fertile ground! A whole new staff to lay off. TheCowsCameHome Aug 2016 #8
Planning to run it like she did HP Angry Dragon Aug 2016 #9
Well, to be honest the GOP is in a downsizing mode and she's an expert on the subject. TeamPooka Aug 2016 #13
She'll give it the warmth and positive energy that it lacks Happyhippychick Aug 2016 #10
lmfao hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha TeamPooka Aug 2016 #11
Because she cannot get another job PuppyBismark Aug 2016 #12
And the RNC clown car gets even fuller. nt cstanleytech Aug 2016 #14
Do it Carly! IronLionZion Aug 2016 #15
Good luck, Carly! LonePirate Aug 2016 #16
Oh please yes!!!! ProudToBeBlueInRhody Aug 2016 #17
I see layoffs in the RNC's future nt geek tragedy Aug 2016 #18
What a reversal from the norm... SeattleVet Aug 2016 #19

emulatorloo

(44,172 posts)
3. Given her track record, she'll finish off the GOP completely
Tue Aug 9, 2016, 02:42 PM
Aug 2016

Then they'll be forced to give her $$$$ to make her go away.

IronLionZion

(45,514 posts)
15. Do it Carly!
Tue Aug 9, 2016, 03:16 PM
Aug 2016

All the misogynistic hatred burning deep within the republicans after they lose to Hillary will be projected onto Carly. It's going to suck pretty bad.

Repairing the badly broken GOP after Trump is going to be a hellish job for whoever gets it.

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