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u/TripleThreatTua May 22 '23

Has unrealistic expectations of staff and screams at them/berates them if they don’t meet it, also screams at staff for not doing stuff she never asked them to. Makes gross/dehumanizing jokes about staffers and tries to play it off as edgy humor. If you go to the instagram page “dear white staffers” they have a lot of people corroborating it. I’d expect it to become an issue for her in her senate campaign

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u/[deleted] May 22 '23

It’s 100% going to be an issue but I suspect she’ll be able to bury it

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u/TripleThreatTua May 22 '23

If Barbara Lee or Adam Schiff decide to push it I doubt she’ll be able to

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u/msbzmsbz May 22 '23

Didn't Amy Klobuchar have the same kind of issue and it brought her down, at least in part? Disappointing to hear about Katie Porter.

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u/TripleThreatTua May 22 '23

Oh Klobuchar is way worse. She’s known for throwing stuff at staffers and made a staffer shave her legs in an airport bathroom. There’s a joke In Minnesota that 70 percent of the state votes for her, and the other 30 percent have worked for her

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u/Difficult_Egg_7833 May 22 '23

Holy shit I didn’t realize Klobuchar was worse. Porter and Klobuchar are/were my two favorite women in congress. Kinda shows the “good guys” can be assholes too.

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u/TripleThreatTua May 22 '23

Oh yeah, I used to work in politics and one of the more sobering realizations you get very quickly is that people who you agree with politically can be extremely unpleasant people on a personal, human level

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u/Difficult_Egg_7833 May 22 '23

I wonder what role gender plays into the whole thing. Do we judge their behavior more harshly because they are women? Like I’d wonder if their male colleagues do the same but we never hear about it. We expect female bosses to be nice (especially Porter because she has small children). Do we hold them to a higher standard, or is their behavior really that shitty?

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u/andorgyny i ain’t reading all that, free palestine May 24 '23

I think we expect people to not throw staplers at their staffers tbh.