Fiorina serves up what 'tea party' voters in Clovis want to hear

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Days before the June Republican primary, Carly Fiorina appeared before the Central Valley Tea Party and asked the group to help her clinch the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, winning over many skeptical members who had favored a rival and promising that she'd be back to visit if they helped her defeat three-term Democrat Barbara Boxer.

The former Hewlett-Packard chief executive went back early, speaking to the group Saturday in a month in which the "tea party" movement showed its muscle by defeating incumbent Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, and notching its eighth Senate nomination with Christine O'Donnell's win in Delaware. This time, Fiorina brought signup sheets and members of her campaign team to lead a seminar on getting out the vote for her campaign.

Pacing on stage at the Veterans Memorial Building in downtown Clovis before an audience of 165 people, Fiorina railed against Boxer as a "big-spending, big-taxing, big-regulating liberal politician" who had supported programs like the stimulus, which Fiorina deems ineffective, and allowed her votes to be controlled by "extreme environmentalists."

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