Live from Silicon Valley: **: What Brought Carly Fiorina Down at HP Is Her Greatest 2016 Asset: "Fiorina hadn’t told her audience... her father, Joseph Tyree Sneed III...
...was a law professor... dean of Duke Law School, a deputy attorney general under President Richard Nixon, and a longtime senior judge on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.... Nor does she mention that she worked only briefly in that real estate office before heading off to Italy for a year with her first husband, Todd Bartlem, a Stanford classmate who’s told other reporters that in the years they were together, she had no political opinions and considered Dress for Success her bible. When reached by phone recently, Bartlem said only, ‘You’re wasting your time, and I don’t want you to waste mine. In the clown car that is the Republican Party, she’s the ultimate clown.’ (Click.)
Fiorina is hardly the first seeker of high office to exaggerate the lowliness of her roots. But no one handed her the grades that would’ve gotten her into Stanford even without connections. Another graduate from a top school might not have taken that temp job, or worked around the clock ever since. Still, the faculty neighborhood where she grew up in Palo Alto wasn’t a particularly unlikely launching pad to tech stardom...
