A consensus is forming in California that, whether she knows it or not, U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina is just a nuisance candidate who’s seen by the GOP elite as a loser with no chance of defeating Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in November, but who can force the senator to spend millions of dollars unnecessarily on television advertising.
The entertainment industry is hardly a bastion of conservatives, but there are a few, and so a new report on donations by people in the industry to the senatorial campaigns does provide insight into how high-profile right wingers view Fiorina:
Boxer, who is seeking a fourth six-year term following 10 years in the House, has more than 40 Hollywood donors [see the list] for every one of Fiorina’s.
Among Boxer’s supporters are dozens of well-known industry figures, including Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Barbra Streisand, Robin Williams, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kevin Kline, Sally Field, Christopher Guest, Don Henley, Bob Iger, Ron Meyer, Peter Chernin and J.J. Abrams.
A review of the latest FEC records showed only two donations for ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO Fiorina from people in entertainment, and not the biggest of names — Mindy Stearns (“Bridezillas”) and James A. McIlwain, a Telemundo ad sales director.
Mindy Stearns? A Telemundo sales guy?
So much for “Carly-forina.”
