2020 Democratic Challengers III: Weekend at Bernie's

[mookie1995]

We'll see. A nation that elected Dump announced that truthfulness is no longer a job requirement.

For some

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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Klobuchar's Baggage.

At least three people have withdrawn from consideration to lead Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s (D-Minn.) nascent 2020 presidential campaign — and done so in part because of Klobuchar’s history of mistreating her staff, HuffPost has learned …

ome former Klobuchar staffers, all of whom spoke to HuffPost on condition of anonymity, describe Klobuchar as habitually demeaning and prone to bursts of cruelty that make it difficult to work in her office for long.

It is common for staff to wake up to multiple emails from Klobuchar characterizing one’s work as “the worst” briefing or press release she’d seen in her decades of public service, according to two former aides and emails seen by HuffPost.

Although some staffers grew inured to her constant put-downs (“It’s always ‘the worst,’” one said sarcastically, “‘It was ‘the worst’ one two weeks ago”), others found it grinding and demoralizing. Adding to the humiliation, Klobuchar often cc’d large groups of staffers who weren’t working on the topic at hand, giving the emails the effect of a public flogging.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019...staff-abuse-emerge-as-she-mulls-2020-run.html

 

[aparch]

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So.... modern-Presidential?

 

[Rover]

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If this keeps up Beto O'Rourke is going to be the smartest guy in the room! Sit out the contest while everybody else knifes each other in the back with selective leaks to the press, then enter the race when the Dem voters are sick of all the backbiting and looking for a fresh face to lead them! It also helps that O'Rourke has already aired out his dirty laundry during the Senate race.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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So much for "Minnesota Nice".

But in all seriousness, I don't care. They spent 30 years calling Hillary a b1tch, so if that's the worst thing that can be said about Klobuchar, then they can shove it.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

If this keeps up Beto O'Rourke is going to be the smartest guy in the room! Sit out the contest while everybody else knifes each other in the back with selective leaks to the press, then enter the race when the Dem voters are sick of all the backbiting and looking for a fresh face to lead them! It also helps that O'Rourke has already aired out his dirty laundry during the Senate race.

So, White Obama?

 

[The Rube]

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So much for "Minnesota Nice".

But in all seriousness, I don't care. They spent 30 years calling Hillary a b1tch, so if that's the worst thing that can be said about Klobuchar, then they can shove it.

Pretty much. I've always heard rumors of her being "demanding" (cough cough office-speak), and *shrug*.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

So much for "Minnesota Nice".

But in all seriousness, I don't care. They spent 30 years calling Hillary a b1tch, so if that's the worst thing that can be said about Klobuchar, then they can shove it.

Ifs not even new for many. One of my friends was her chief for years but they don’t badmouth her

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Let's put it this way. If she had a dick and balls and were named Arne, they'd be calling him "very tough, but tough on everyone so also fair".

 

[Handyman]

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Yep...and I am someone who indirectly felt her wrath We are way too far out for something so small to be what destroys any candidate.

 

[SJHovey]

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Yep...and I am someone who indirectly felt her wrath We are way too far out for something so small to be what destroys any candidate.

I don't think it's a disqualifying characteristic at all. One question, though, will be whether she can assemble the best campaign support staff possible if she has that reputation. Probably, but it would suck if you can't get communications directors or speech writers or some other important person just because they don't want to work for an azzhole.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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I don't think it's a disqualifying characteristic at all. One question, though, will be whether she can assemble the best campaign support staff possible if she has that reputation. Probably, but it would suck if you can't get communications directors or speech writers or some other important person just because they don't want to work for an azzhole.

If you read the article I posted that is what is happening. Be interesting to see if she can overcome it or not. There are a lot of other candidates people can go work for.

 

[Kepler]

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I don't think it's a disqualifying characteristic at all. One question, though, will be whether she can assemble the best campaign support staff possible if she has that reputation. Probably, but it would suck if you can't get communications directors or speech writers or some other important person just because they don't want to work for an azzhole.

I'm OK with the most powerful person in the world being a jerk. Carter and Dubya were nice people who were lovely to their workers. LBJ and FDR were as-sholes who were legendarily unpleasant to be with. For that matter, Maggie Thatcher was not exactly Miss Congeniality.

 

[Handyman]

I don't think it's a disqualifying characteristic at all. One question, though, will be whether she can assemble the best campaign support staff possible if she has that reputation. Probably, but it would suck if you can't get communications directors or speech writers or some other important person just because they don't want to work for an azzhole.

I don't think that will be hard...plenty of azzholes who don't mind working for azzholes

 

[Kepler]

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I don't think that will be hard...plenty of azzholes who don't mind working for azzholes

Particularly one who has a very good chance of being President.

Her inner circle is no doubt already set, and those are the people who will be communicating with the new hires. The candidate is actually not a very important person in the campaign staff. They're just the can of beans that's being sold. The important people are the campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, communications director, and probably the rapid response director. Nobody below them deals directly with the candidate, who is pretty much just a package that gets moved around to different places where it opens its mouth and excretes whatever has been loaded into it.

The press secretary is really important, too, but they deal with the media, not with the campaign staff.

It's not unusual for all of those people to have been with the candidate for ages through their downticket campaigns. Sometimes they are even close friends because they are people the candidate has to trust completely. Mid-level staffers and consultants may be trustworthy but they are never trusted.

 

[The Sicatoka]

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I'm OK with the most powerful person in the world being a jerk.

But you don't like Trump?

 

[Kepler]

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But you don't like Trump?

I'm OK with the most powerful person in the world being a competent jerk.

 

[The Sicatoka]

Re: 2020 Democratic Challengers III: Weekend at Bernie's

Show me a former prosecutor who is well-loved by all and I'll show you a former prosecutor.

Klobuchar has the target on her back because she is a viable candidate, but not the chosen one.

 

[The Sicatoka]

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If this keeps up Beto O'Rourke is going to be the smartest guy in the room!

That's not hard to be when you're the only one in it. You should know that.

 

[Kepler]

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Show me a former prosecutor who is well-loved by all and I'll show you a former prosecutor.

Klobuchar has the target on her back because she is a viable candidate, but not the chosen one.

There is no Chosen One this time around. There are lots and lots of really good candidates but no favorite, which means the one who does emerge will have been proven by a fair contest.

That should worry the Republicans a lot.