Daily Kos: Fiorina's Lies Easily Debunked

   Tue Oct 06, 2015 at 08:30 AM PDT

Fiorina swipes at liberal media for unpaid campaign debts story. But it's not hard to prove.

   by Laura Clawson   

   

Carly Fiorina is not happy with the Washington Post article about the 2010 campaign debts she left unpaid for years, including a debt to the widow of a pollster who died while working for Fiorina.

 

Apparently Fiorina thinks all she needs to do is blame the liberal media:

According to MSNBC, Fiorina assailed "the left and their allies in the media" for the story, which was based on more than two dozen interviews with staff members, friends, contractors and operatives who worked on the 2010 Senate campaign. All said there was a huge problem with the operation: It didn't manage money well. Fiorina said Monday that The Post doesn't "have much credibility" anymore.

If not the Post, how about the Federal Election Commission, and Fiorina's own FEC filings?

 

Because of course the Post has Fiorina's termination report from her 2010 Senate campaign, and of course it was filed in January 2015, immediately before she began running for president.

 

It shows payments for finance consulting, political strategy consulting, research consulting, web ads, web service, database management, compliance consulting, printing, and, yes, to the widow of the pollster who died on the campaign.

 

It's documentary evidence, from Fiorina herself, that the original Post story was accurate, and she did not finish paying off hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign debt until five years later when she began running for president.

 

Fiorina is accomplished at the Republican school of lying firmly, confidently, and flagrantly, but for real, when not only are there dozens of witnesses to what you did but you yourself have filed government documents to that effect ... blaming "the left and their allies in the media" is just not going to hack it.