Are they hired by the hour or on salary? Do they only work 9 to 5 or do their duties involve nights and weekends, too? The fact that the wife of a candidate is checking up on them strikes me as a tad bit Hillaryesque. Will we have a co-presidency with them, also?
I don’t know or care about how they are hired.
If I were their boss and people gave the impression that they were not doing their job, I would probably do something just like that to try and shame them into to doing it.
If that didn’t work, I’d fire them.
With regards to Jeri, so what if she is involved. She has been involved in campaigns before and the political process.
You might have a point if she was a total newbie at politics, but she is not.