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Kamala Harris Aide Resigns With Scathing Letter: Staff Treated “Poorly,”
Letter by Kelly Mehlenbacher originally published in the NYG ^ | 11/19/2019 | Kelly Mehlenbacher

Posted on 07/26/2024 7:31:42 PM PDT by thegagline

November 11, 2019

To Whom it may Concern:

It is with a heavy heart that I submit my resignation as State Operations Director at Kamala Harris for the People, effective November 30, 2019. This is my third presidential campaign and I have never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly.

While I still believe that Senator Harris is the strongest candidate to win in the General Election in 2020, I no longer have confidence in our campaign or its leadership. The treatment of our staff over the last two weeks was the final straw in this very difficult decision.

It is not acceptable to me that we encouraged people to move from Washington, DC to Baltimore only to lay them off with no notice, with no plan for the campaign, and without thoughtful consideration of the personal consequences to them or the consequences that their absence would have on the remaining staff. It is unacceptable that we would lay off anyone that we hired only weeks earlier. It is unacceptable that with less than 90 days until lowa we still do not have a real plan to win. Our campaign For the People is made up of diverse talent which is being squandered by indecision and a lack of "leaders who will lead." That is unacceptable.

When morale has never been lower and additional people, even if only three, are laid off and neither the campaign manager or the chair addresses the staff to explain, apologize or reassure us of the decisions being made and the path forward, something has got to give. Presidential campaigns are incredibly challenging work and for good reason. We're asking people to trust us to look out for them, to have their best interests at heart. Campaigns have highs and lows, mistakes and miscalculations, lessons learned and adjustments made. But, because we have refused to confront our mistakes, foster an environment of critical thinking and honest feedback, or trust the expertise of talented staff, we find ourselves making the same unforced errors over and over. And, it certainly does not help the team to read about campaign discord in Politico (or various other publications) because those with things to say have decided the best way to air their grievances is in the press instead of to leadership.

This is not how I would have ever imagined my time at this campaign ending, and like I said, this was not an easy decision. I only hope that my departure might result in some serious consideration of our structure, our goals, our internal communications and what are organizational values are. We have really amazing people on staff and I'd hate for any more to get to the point where I find myself, writing this letter of resignation.

Kelly Mehlenbacher


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: harridan; harris; horrible; kamalatruth; rotten; staff
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Remember Harris the horrible candidate with the atrocious personality? This is from Harris’s State Operations Director, Kelly Mehlenbacher 11/19/2019
1 posted on 07/26/2024 7:31:42 PM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline

yeah, and guess who this doofus will vote for. No doubt. These people are sheep.


2 posted on 07/26/2024 7:33:42 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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3 posted on 07/26/2024 7:34:48 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ugh. I’m going to have to switch to drinking hard liquor.


4 posted on 07/26/2024 7:36:07 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: thegagline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZyCGws2r08


5 posted on 07/26/2024 7:44:49 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Donald dodged a bullet while Kamala dodged responsibilities.)
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To: thegagline

Harris probably blames her failures on her staff. That is why there is such a high turnover rate.


6 posted on 07/26/2024 7:51:54 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: thegagline

This person will soon have a fatal car accident, fatal skiing accident, fatal road rage encounter, fall from a tall building, get stabbed with a Russian umbrella, get caught with child porn, get hammered by the IRS, fatal car jacking, or suicide by two bullet holes (or fragment holes) in theback of her head...


7 posted on 07/26/2024 7:54:42 PM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: SuperLuminal

“This person never existed. There are no records that she was ever born, lived or died in the United States.

She was dreamed up by crazy right wing extremists in a last ditch effort to slander Kamala Harris.

They forged this resignation letter.”

This message was brought to you by the US Mockingbird Media who are protecting us from misinformation and disinformation for our own good.

:-)


8 posted on 07/26/2024 8:02:10 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: thegagline

I’d say Harris could almost match Hillary in the royal -itch category.


9 posted on 07/26/2024 8:03:29 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata

The word staff is plural. So when is the Swiftboat veteran moment? Should come after the convention unless you want Gavin.


10 posted on 07/26/2024 8:08:57 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: thegagline
"Kamala is the classic “kiss up punch down” boss: -- Freeper cgbg

11 posted on 07/26/2024 8:18:02 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Kamala is the classic “kiss up punch down” boss: -- Freeper cgbg)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Yes, a Swift Boat type movement should take place after the nomination.

I still say it’s about 50-50 that there is an election.


12 posted on 07/26/2024 8:27:10 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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re: hard liquor

Good idea, I will attest. One local band here is named ‘Whiskey’s Quicker”..

...which seemed odd and stupid until I tried & confirmed...with no mid-nite trips to the pisseria.

Sip some whiskey.


13 posted on 07/26/2024 9:22:59 PM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: thegagline

Imagine how insufferable this bitch must be now that she’s the queen bee.

92% staff resignation rate is astoundingly telling.


14 posted on 07/26/2024 9:26:18 PM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: thegagline

She’s the female Obama, but way more evil.

The same Hebrew letters that spell Kamala are the same used for the Jews worst enemy, Amalek.


15 posted on 07/26/2024 10:14:16 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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Interesting. The Amalekites were on God’s list as in 1 Samuel 15:3.
“Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.”

Note: That was not my own original idea.
The Holy Scriptures reported it.

Another:
In Deuteronomy 20:16–17, God commanded the Israelites, “In the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you.”

In what turned out to be a Biblical lesson against the Hebrews, they spared the life of Haman’s ancestor, deciding to disobey God and substitute their own idea of being kind and letting him go. The later descendent Haman dedicated his life to killing all the Jews he could find.

Background:
Haman, son of Hammedatha, was the royal vizier to the Persian king Ahasuerus. Haman was a descendant of Agag, the king of the Amalekites defeated by the Israelite king Saul.


16 posted on 07/27/2024 12:22:08 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: thegagline

Wow! A party founded on deception, duplicity, treachery, secrecy, and deceit can’t be trusted to take care of it’s own serfs?
Shock-O’-shocks!


17 posted on 07/27/2024 12:33:03 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: thegagline

BOW

Bitch On Wheels


18 posted on 07/27/2024 12:37:32 AM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: cgbg

😎


19 posted on 07/27/2024 12:55:46 AM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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