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With Carly Fiorina As Running Mate, Cruz's H-1B Stance Now In Question (computerworld.com)
dcblogs quotes a report from Computerworld: In 2013, Sen. Ted Cruz emerged as one of the Senate's top H-1B visa supporters, and argued for a 500% visa cap increase. But during his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, Cruz had a conversion. Cruz's presidential platform proposed a $110,000 minimum wage for visa workers, among other restrictions, as a way of ending their use as low-cost labor. The move marked a complete turnabout on the H-1B issue. Cruz's decision Wednesday to add former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as his running mate if he wins the nomination, may make his newly found H-1B beliefs a hard sell. At HP, Fiorina was a prominent supporter of the offshore outsourcing model, said Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at Howard University. "To pump up profits, she was an early adopter of the practice, which given HP's status as a leading Silicon Valley firm, pushed other firms to adopt offshoring," said Hira. As offshoring gained, Fiorina played a leading role in defending globalization. To make her point, in 2004, Fiorina said: "There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore," reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
Cruz may need H1-B status to work as POTUS.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Official Cruz-Fiornia campaign portrait:
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You are welcome on my lawn.
Well, she did get a 7% bump in the stock price.
When news got out that the board sacked her.
See that "Preview" button?
The People: "I am not fucking voting for Hillary! I won't! I swear, I won't!!!"
Republicans: "Oh, yes you will. You will vote for exactly whom we want you to."
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