Posted on 08/22/2008 4:11:10 PM PDT by keat
Sen. Carole Migden's Capitol staff was sent home on Thursday afternoon and told not to report to work on Friday, after the San Francisco Democrat was heard berating them from the hallway.
Enedina Hidalgo, the director of personnel for the state Senate, overheard Migden screaming, according to a witness to the event. The source said she entered the office while the senator was not present on Thursday, informing the staff of their rights.
Soon after, Hidalgo returned to Migden's office with Tony Beard Jr., the chief sergeant-at-arms of the state Senate. They told the staff to pack up their belongings and escorted them out of the building, the witness said.
Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, an Oakland Democrat and chair of the Rules Committee, declined to comment. Secretary of the Senate Greg Schmidt, the top aide to the Rules Committee, and Hidalgo also declined to comment.
When Sen. Carole Migden was directly asked about Thursday's events, Perata aide Lynda Gledhill sought to intervene, telling Migden she did not have to comment.
"They weren't sent home," Migden said of her staff, before walking away.
Late Thursday afternoon, the phones to the Migden's Capitol office went unanswered and mail had piled up by 4:45 p.m., stuffed under the locked office door.
[snip] Migden, known for her brusque attitude, is a 10-year veteran of the Capitol, having served six years in the Assembly and one term in the Senate.
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Migden suffered a bout of bad publicity during the campaign, especially surrounding an erratic 30-mile drive last May on Interstate 80 in which she careened off the center divider and later rear-ended a car with her state-owned SUV.
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Migden will leave office at the end of November.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
How sad that people just can’t get along. Must be an election year. //sarc
That time of the month, or that time in her life? Or just a case of RAT fever?
/johnny
O.K., I get the part about this Rat being completely nutzoid, but did she fire her entire staff or were they taken away from her and sent home by her leadership as punishment for her behavior. The story is not clear.
Drugs and booze are good for you!
Taken away to protect them from her, I think.
“Migden will leave office at the end of November.”
and not a day too soon ... who does she think she IS, Bella Abzug ?
I witnessed bosses go on screaming fits all the time when I was in the corporate world. HR never got involved.
Really? I wonder if she's and enviro-whacko?
Hey, let's save some gas for the rest of us, OK?
Yep... damage control.
An early start on a wet weekend?
How do these people convince others to vote for them? I think I missed that class in: “being a human 101”.
“No-wire-HANGERS”
Migden’s a special case. She’s a crazy lush whose history is replete with erratic and downright dangerous behavior — particularly behind the wheel. My guess is the staff was removed because HR and Security really did think she’d go Neanderthal on them.
They tend to lawyer up and show due diligence with proper HR response. I don't know where you worked, but I've seen a lot of it.
/johnny
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