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‘Not a healthy environment’: Kamala Harris’ office rife with dissent
politico ^ | 6-30-21 | CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO, DANIEL LIPPMAN and EUGENE DANIELS

Posted on 06/30/2021 4:09:07 PM PDT by dynachrome

When Vice President Kamala Harris finally made the decision to visit the Mexico border last week, people inside her own office were blindsided by the news.

For days, aides and outside allies had been calling and texting with each other about the political fallout that a potential trip would entail. But when it became known that she was going to El Paso, it left many scrambling, including officials who were responsible for making travel arrangements and others outside the VP’s office charged with crafting the messaging across the administration.

The handling of the border visit was the latest chaotic moment for a staff that’s quickly become mired in them. Harris’ team is experiencing low morale, porous lines of communication and diminished trust among aides and senior officials. Much of the frustration internally is directed at Tina Flournoy, Harris’ chief of staff, a veteran of Democratic politics who began working for her earlier this year.

In interviews, 22 current and former vice presidential aides, administration officials and associates of Harris and Biden described a tense and at times dour office atmosphere. Aides and allies said Flournoy, in an apparent effort to protect Harris, has instead created an insular environment where ideas are ignored or met with harsh dismissals and decisions are dragged out. Often, they said, she refuses to take responsibility for delicate issues and blames staffers for the negative results that ensue.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: dissent; kamala; kneepads
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To: JennysCool

Stop that right now! TMI!


21 posted on 06/30/2021 4:59:47 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Freee-dame
If I may.(in bold)...

the ridiculousness of going to El Paso airport to discuss the problems at the border.

22 posted on 06/30/2021 5:00:39 PM PDT by llevrok (I'm old enough to remember when the quarantine was to be 2 weeks)
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To: dynachrome
Horizontal & Tina.


23 posted on 06/30/2021 5:07:31 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: dynachrome

She’s grossly unqualified, shallow, mean spirited and disloyal.

Her world view is shaped by San Francisco hothouse politics.

She’s never had to worry about the real world consequences of her actions, or of her inactions. Instead, she owes her career to playing a game of corrupt machine politics in a one party state.

Basically, she’s a bimbo with a prima donna complex. It must be torture working for her, or even working WITH her on a regular basis. This is the likely reason for her high staff turnover rate.


24 posted on 06/30/2021 5:21:24 PM PDT by LuxAerterna
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Think Hillary, only younger meaning much worse.

Exactly what I was thinking. Imagine having a boss like these women. Imagine being married to them.


25 posted on 06/30/2021 5:32:48 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: dynachrome

Sounds like a buncha office wusses didn’t want to leave their sad, air-conditioned cubicles to travel to a US city in fly-over country.


26 posted on 06/30/2021 5:34:21 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“Imagine having a boss like these women. Imagine being married to them.”

Does the name Bill Clinton ring a bell? I would have enjoyed having his sex life. I guess the rest of us are just not as...you tell me.


27 posted on 06/30/2021 5:42:05 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (1)
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To: ealgeone

Thats to our benefit.


28 posted on 06/30/2021 5:49:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Libloather

Looks like Alien v. Predator.


29 posted on 06/30/2021 5:51:51 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: dynachrome

Consider the chilling possibility of old Joe being sent off to a sanitarium and Cackling Kamala becoming POTUS. I suspicion that Kamala is not part of the cabal pulling Joe’s strings and is not liked by anyone in the West Wing. I could see Kamala’s ascension to the presidency causing a night of the long knives or the succession power struggles typical of the post Stalin Soviet Union.


30 posted on 06/30/2021 6:25:01 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: dynachrome

Rd and laugh later.


31 posted on 07/01/2021 2:13:05 AM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: llevrok
I did not watch Kamala’s event in El Paso so I did not know before your comment that she never went farther than the airport! The media would have praised her even if she had stayed on her plane.

As discouraging as it is just to read about these outrageous events, just imagine how President Trump feels knowing that all the good things he did while in office are being destroyed by these incompetent and evil people.

32 posted on 07/01/2021 3:45:35 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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