Fiorina on Disney: ‘Shame on Them’

Boasting her strong commitment to patriotic American immigration policies, Carly Fiorina said Wednesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show” that she deplores corporations that abuse immigration law, citing reports that The Walt Disney Co. brought in lower-paid foreign workers on guest-worker visas and then forced the outgoing American workers to train their replacements as a condition of severance.

“Shame on them,” said Fiorina. “We should never support that kind of policy.”

The Disney slam came as a sort of deflection after Fiorina was asked to address critics who have battered her over her tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard during a time when the company outsourced jobs abroad.

Fiorina said the federal government needs new policies that will promote growth in the U.S. economy.

“We’re destroying the small businesses at seven times the rate of big businesses,” she said.

“We’re destroying the small businesses at seven times the rate of big businesses,” she said. “We have a regulatory policy and a tax policy that drives business out of this country, as well as citizens out of this country. We’re doing all of these things in denial of reality.”

Fiorina noted that a smaller percentage of adults are in the workforce than at any time since the 1970s. Too many out-of-work Americans lack the skills relevant to a modern economy, she said.

“We have to retrain Americans,” she said.

With greater exposure — a CNN/ORC poll over the weekend had her in second place among Republicans nationally — has come greater scrutiny. Fiorina has found herself on under fire from some critics as a faux outsider because she served as CEO of a large multinational company, ran for office and advised Arizona Sen. John McCain during the 2008 presidential election.

“I don’t know how anyone could call me an insider, unless they’re prepared to call Donald Trump and Ben Carson insiders as well, since I’ve never held a job in (public) office,” she said.

“I don’t know how anyone could call me an insider, unless they’re prepared to call Donald Trump and Ben Carson insiders as well, since I’ve never held a job in (public) office,” she said.

But don’t try to pigeonhole her. Fiorina declined to say whether she is more of a Jeff Sessions Republican or a Mitch McConnell Republican.

For most conservative voters, particularly those animated by immigration and trade issues, it’s an easy choice between Sessions, the senator from Alabama, and McConnell, the Senate majority leader whom many critics on the right regard as too accommodating to Democrats.

Fiorina reiterated her past criticism of Republican leaders in Congress for failing to defund Planned Parenthood, stop the Iran nuclear deal or pass a law allowing Congress to review regulations before they take effect. But given a choice between A and B, Fiorina chose C.

“I’m Carly Fiorina,” she said. “I’ve been very specific about everything I’d do.”