HP Shareholders Owe Us All: They Need to Open Their Pockets for Campbell Bigtime Right Now
For the record, Tom Campbell would be a much much much much much much much much much much much much better senator for America and California than Carly Fiorina.
Helett Packard shareholders who gave her the cash to make her run need to open up their pockets and fund Campbell in the next week big time. They owe it two America.
Maeve Reston:
With a week before the primary, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tom Campbell has pulled his television advertising and is relying on web ads and telephone calls to drive his message to likely Republican voters. The decision to go dark -- Tuesday was his last day on the air, for now -- creates enormous hurdles for the former Congressman at a time when his chief rival, Carly Fiorina, has lent several million dollars to her campaign and shot ahead in the polls in what had once been a close race..... Campbell’s precarious financial position was evident in the most recent round of campaign finance reports. Though Campbell raised more money than Fiorina in the period between April 1 and May 19, the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive lent her campaign an additional $3 million in the past few weeks, bringing her total personal contributions to $5.5 million.
Campbell spokesman Jamie Fisfis said the campaign is making “day-to-day decisions on how to spend our money” and plans to target many likely Republican voters with automated calls Thursday offering a live telephone question-and-answer session with the candidate...
