"CNN gave some conservatives a start on Thursday after it reported that former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina...supported a health insurance mandate as recently as 2013...
...Even more awkward for Fiorina, however, is her involvement with a California-based nonprofit organization that promoted enrollment in Obamacare's health exchanges."
The Foundation for Health Coverage Education, (official website name CoverageForAll.org), boasts of Carly Fiorina as a member of their Advisory Board.
"While Fiorina opposes Obamacare, and would even go so far as to unilaterally change the rules in the Senate in order to repeal it, the nonprofit she advises would like more people to sign up for its health exchanges.
In multiple Facebook posts ahead of the first Obamacare enrollment deadline...FHCE informed its followers on how best to sign up for coverage through Healthcare.gov... Later that year, as the second deadline for enrollment neared, the nonprofit again told people to 'check in with #HealthCare.gov for changes, dates and advice for enrollment'"
eye'm thynkin': Just another convenient change of heart reached after much soul-searching, or a flip flop seen as necessary in the race to prove her conservative bona fides? You decide; but also consider this is not the only example of a Fiorina double standard.
Read more at Huffington Politics
"Oh, Carly. For a woman who was so passionate in the last debate about Planned Parenthood, it seems she's much more agnostic about other organizations that she chairs.
Fiorina, the Republican presidential candidate, has served as the chair of Good360 since 2012."
(On Good360's "About Us" page, Ms. Fiorina is clearly pictured and identified as Board Chair.)
"The organization facilitates donations from companies to nonprofits by allowing the companies to donate products, and the nonprofits to select the products they need on an online marketplace. Good360 then delivers the products to the nonprofits.
In 2013, the organization donated $18,022 in goods to the Abortion Access Network of Arizona, a member of the National Network of Abortion Funds...According to the groups website, the Abortion Access Network of Arizona 'provides financial assistance to people seeking abortions in the state of Arizona,' while the National Network of Abortion Funds calls abortion 'a fundamental human right.'"
eye'm thynkin': To answer my own question, I'd say: Call it a flip-flop or call it a change of heart, keeping a foot in both camps while waving your conservative Republican flag to the red meat crowd is a convenient deception at best.
A leader has to decide from which side of the line she is going to lead. Carly Fiorina appears to want to wait and leave proof of her support--whichever side wins the argument.
Read more at Crooks and Liars
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