While Barbara Boxer is on the air with yet another nasty ad attacking Carly Fiorina for supposedly shipping jobs overseas while that accomplished Republican served as CEO of HP, the 28-year Washington veteran fails to address her own record on job creation.
When Mrs. Boxer was first elected to the U.S. Senate during an economic downturn in November 1992, unemployment in the Golden State stood at 9.8%, a very high number, to be sure. (It stood at 4.7% when her party gained a majority in the Senate in November 2006.) In August 2010 (the last month for which such statistics are available), unemployment had climbed to 12.4%, with Boxer’s jurisdiction experiencing one of the largest “over-the-month employment decreases” in employment, shedding 33,600 jobs.
Over the year, California was one of two states (the other being Democratic-controlled Colorado) experiencing “statistically significant job losses”, with 112,800 jobs disappearing. All those jobs were lost six months after Mrs. Boxer’s beloved “stimulus” passed and while Democrats were in complete control in Washington.
If seeing shuttered storefronts and learning of friends’ job losses weren’t enough, Mrs. Boxer’s successor and the National Republican Senatorial Committee remind us of the reality of Barbara Boxer’s California:
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Whoa! Slow down, Dan. You’ve got a ton of articles here to digest.
.For the life of me I’m not sure why Republicans or a conservative would want to jump into CA govenment and try to fix 40 years of socialism? Arnold took some conservative ideas to CA and got coopted. Give up. Let the liberals have CA and watch it fall into the sea with their debt.
I don’t know why Whitman would want the job either. It will take a fearless Chris Christie type to fix that state, and I don’t see that in her.
But someone HAS to! The fact that liberals “have” California — perhaps the biggest economic engine of the country — is one of the reasons the country is in such dire straights. Socialists aren’t just choking the economy at the federal level, they are killing the economy at the state and local levels as well.
Good ad, btw. Republicans have some really slick producers making their ads this year.