During the second GOP debate, Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina shared a personal story about the loss of her stepdaughter to drugs. “Drug addiction is an epidemic, and it is taking too many of our young people”, Fiorina said during the debate. “I buried a child to drug addiction”, Fiorina said. The United States averages 110 overdose deaths from legal and illegal drugs every day. Prescription painkillers prescribed and sold in the US quadrupled from 1999 to 2013, even though the actual amount of pain Americans reported had not changed.
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A moment after Jeb Bush jokingly admitted to smoking pot four decades ago (‘Sorry Mom’), Fiorina brought the drug debate back to Earth by recalling the death of her stepdaughter. “She was smart and hardworking”. There are, however, revealing passages in her newest book, Rising to the Challenge, according to this Time piece. “The two police officers stood awkwardly in our living room…” she writes of her and her husband’s experience at the start of the book. “But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know flying is an activity, not an accomplishment… if you want to stump a Democrat, ask them to name a accomplishment of Mrs. Clinton’s”. “Lori’s potential was never fulfilled but death is not the only thing that crushes potential….”
In 2011, after Jobs stepped down from his CEO role at Apple for health reasons, Fiorina told Fox News that “Steve has been a good friend of mine”.
As part of her commanding performance, Fiorina’s blunt criticism of Clinton was a savvy way to try to prove that she’s ready for the general election.
Schroeder, Colorado’s first woman elected to Congress, said she has been discouraged by how few women have entered politics – especially at the highest level since she first came to D.C.in 1973.
She writes that Lori’s struggles with alcohol, prescription pills, and bulimia led to her untimely death at the age of 35. “The police officers said our daughter was dead, three thousand miles away”.
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“There are millions of families who have gone through this or are going through this”, she said on CNN.
