Carly Fiorina for Senate

Atticus Morris
The Guardsman

With unemployment hovering around 12 percent and rampant deficit spending in Sacramento, many Californians are understandably unhappy with the status quo.

More than ever, California needs leaders who know how to manage money and make the tough policy decisions these times necessitate.

Carly Fiorina has a proven track record of leadership when financial stakes are high. As CEO of Hewlett-Packard, she brokered the controversial merger with Compaq now considered one of the most successful moves in information technology history.

She believes entrepreneurs and small businesses are the engine of California’s economy, so the last thing we should be doing is raising taxes.

Unlike many incumbents, Fiorina is actually committed to creating jobs.

She has proposed a two-year payroll-tax holiday to give small businesses and startups greater incentive to hire. She’s also suggested creating “jobs for Americans zones,” which would bring manufacturing jobs back through “targeted” federal tax benefits.

Barbara Boxer claims to represent working families, but tell that to the farmers whose fields are barren because she cares more about protecting the endangered delta smelt, than irrigating the San Joaquin Valley.

Boxer chairs the Committee on the Environment and Public Works, and has repeatedly voted against measures to irrigate the valley.

It’s easy to wax moral about “saving the environment” when it’s not your family going hungry as a result, and really easy when you’re a millionaire senator living on the other side of the continent in in Washington D.C.

If elected, Fiorina will turn the pumps on as soon as possible.

The latest Rasmussen poll shows Fiorina and Boxer in a dead heat. Are California voters really willing to accept more of the same mess, just so they can vote for someone with a “D” next to their name?

Let’s send a message. No one’s job performance is beyond reproach, even if they happen to be a Democrat in California.