Former business executive Carly Fiorina is having a little fun with the fact she failed to register a domain carrying her name in time before announcing her presidential bid this week.
Fiorina, a Republican, did not purchase the domain
carlyfiorina.org before someone else did, and now it's a one-page website that campaigns against her.
"Carly Fiorina failed to register this domain," a message on the website reads.
"So I'm using it to tell you how many people she laid off at Hewlett-Packard.
"It was this many:"
What follows are rows and rows of sad faces created with a colon and an open parentheses. At the bottom of the page is the following:
"That's 30,000 people she laid off. People with families. And what does she say she would have done differently?
" 'I would have done them all faster.'
—Carly Fiorina"
On Tuesday during an appearance at a tech conference in New York City, Fiorina addressed the situation.
"I've certainly read about it," Fiorina said,
reports The Hill.
"You can't buy every domain name. You just can't. Maybe we should have tried, but we didn't. And so people are going to do what they are going to do. But hopefully people will go to carlyforpresident.com instead."
Fiorina is no stranger to the tech world. She worked at AT&T and Lucent before serving as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999-2005.
Fiorina responded to the domain fiasco by playing a joke on
NBC's Seth Meyers during an appearance on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" Tuesday evening.
"Do you know who owns SethMeyers.org? I do," Fiorina said. "I just bought it in the green room actually. So you better be really nice to me tonight."
Meyers then joked, "I'm going to start laying people off so you have something to put on it."
A check of SethMeyers.org reveals that Fiorina did purchase the domain. It automatically redirects to her campaign website,
carlyforpresident.com.
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