Carly Fiorina Takes Fight to Barbara Boxer During Campaign Kickoff Event Today

This is going to be a down and dirty campaign for California U.S. Senate, folks.

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina launched an uphill campaign Wednesday to unseat three-term Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, aggressively portraying herself as a business-savvy problem solver who would impose fiscal discipline on a profligate Congress.

The 55-year-old Republican and political neophyte — her once curly blond hair closely cropped and graying after a recently completed round of chemotherapy for breast cancer — wasted no time taking the fight to Boxer, calling her a do-nothing career politician whose actions have saddled the country with debt and stifled job creation. She charged that Boxer has authored only three bills that became law during her 17 years as a senator — including one that named a courthouse and another that named a river.

“Sometimes I wonder whether California even has two U.S. senators,” Fiorina told a roomful of employees and others at a green products company in Garden Grove as she announced her Senate bid. “There’s Dianne Feinstein and then there’s what’s-her-name.”

Carly Fiorina says she knows how to take a punch as well as deliver one and Flap believes it. Incumbent Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer has been well known as a fierce and competitive campaigner. Boxer may have met her match this time around.

“I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn’t that scary anymore,” Fiorina said, in one of several mentions of her battle with breast cancer this year. “She has always taken the low road to higher office, so get ready. But I can take a punch, and I can throw a punch.”

But first, Fiorina will have to get past fellow Republican Chuck DeVore who Fiorina said today has mischaracterized her stance on the issues.

Let the Senate race begin.

Flap thinks California is going to see a United States Senate race like no other in recent California history – wild, expensive, down and dirty.

Update:

Here is some video of Carly Fiorina attacking Barbara Boxer today.

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