Carly Fiorina gets mixed reactions from crowd at Juneteenth event

[pinboy3niner]

Carly Fiorina gets mixed reactions from crowd at Juneteenth event
The GOP Senate nominee, hoping to broaden her appeal, attends South L.A. celebration. One woman says her appearance shows bravery and a willingness to listen; another calls her a 'two-faced liar.'

By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times
June 20, 2010

After spending months trying to convince Republican audiences that she is conservative to her core, GOP Senate nominee Carly Fiorina abruptly shifted strategy Saturday, campaigning in heavily Democratic South Los Angeles at a Juneteenth celebration where she was both warmly received and shouted down as a "two-faced liar" and a "turncoat."

She strolled through Leimert Plaza Park with a traditional African scarf draped around her neck and a campaign photographer and videographer in tow — the visit grounded in political necessity as she looks ahead to a general election battle against Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer. After winning the primary as a sharp critic of President Obama, the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive must now win the support of independent voters and some Democrats to overcome her party's registration disadvantage in the state.
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Raphael J. Sonenshein, a Cal State Fullerton political science professor and author of a book on racial politics in Los Angeles, said Fiorina's visit Saturday was less about winning votes there, which he said was a "remote" possibility, than about moving past her conservative image.

"For a candidate who's got herself out on a limb — not just with Democrats and independents, but specifically with Latinos — she needs to show that she has an interest in speaking to the whole community of California," said Sonenshein, referring to Fiorina's support of the Arizona illegal immigration bill. "If you're a Republican and you go to a community where you are least likely to do well, that would at least attract a little attention."
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0620-fiorina-juneteenth-20100620,0,3974686.story

[mackerel]

1. Maybe it's to do with her sucky haircut.

[pinboy3niner]

3. LOL! More likely her sucky politics

You screw people over, you may get your own "social justice." AKA, Karma. In November, Carly will learn the true meaning of, "What goes around, comes around" ...

[Journeyman]

2. In defense of Fiorina, if she were two-faced would she be wearing that one? . . .

on edit: h/t to Mr Lincoln for the original, self-deprecating touch of humor

[mackerel]

4. Maybe she thought it was Bloomsday and she was hoping

to do a pub crawl.