AP Photo Boxer hits former Senate opponent Fiorina

California Sen. Barbara Boxer on Friday said that her former senate opponent and current presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is “mean-spirited” and the definition of corporate greed.

“Here is a woman who ran against me in the worst year Democrats ever had and we won in a landslide because the people of California didn’t want her to do to the country what she did to Hewlett-Packard,” Boxer said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. “She’s the face of income inequality and the face of corporate greed ... She makes Mitt Romney look like a Democrat.”


The two, who competed for Boxer’s incumbent seat in 2010, had a messy fight to the finish, with Boxer taking 52.1 percent of the vote against 42.1 percent for Fiorina.

The Democratic senator said that out of everyone she has ever run against Fiorina “was by far the most mean-spirited opponent I ever had.”

Fiorina’s record as CEO of Hewlett-Packard – she was fired in 2005 – became a center point of Boxer’s campaign. According to the Times, Boxer said that Fiorina focused on her own well-being rather than her workers while at the tech giant: flying in private planes and purchasing a yacht while she laid off 30,000 employees.

“California has the highest poverty rates in the nation under Barbara Boxer's policies. As president, Carly will challenge the status quo that has crushed Americans under the weight and corruption of this government,” Fiorina spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said to the Times.

Boxer told the Times she was shocked when Fiorina announced her bid for the White House.

“I thought, this is a new definition of chutzpah,” Boxer said. “She hasn’t had a job since she was fired, no one’s hired her, and she has the chutzpah to think with that record that she’s going to be the president of the greatest country in the world and commander in chief?”