White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has been promoted to senior adviser to the president, ABC News has learned.
#9 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-10-11 10:18 PM | Reply | Flag: MAGAts post and re-post 100% BS because they believe that everyone is as gullible and stupid as they are
#9 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-10-11 10:18 PM | Reply | Flag: Typical MAGAt stupidity (examples here and here | look for the inevitable additions to this list)
Winsome Sears is a black woman and has not failed upwards.
Why hasn't she? Sears won a Virginia house election and was appointed to 2 different government jobs and then proceeded to lose Congressional and Senatorial races while winning the GOP's Lt. Governors' slot on the 5th party ballot. Not the voters, the PARTY. Hmmm, seems you have big issues with that when it's a Democrat, but I digress. Continuing, Sears blamed Trump for party-wide losses in the 2022 elections, calling him a liability to the GOP and announced that she wouldn't support him in 2024. She backtracked after Trump became the presumptive nominee this Spring. Then she joined Youngkins' to win her current office.
Kamala Harris won her California Attorney General elections - and gained California taxpayers BILLIONS in court judgments against major corporations who'd ripped off California citizens. Then she won her US Senate election along with being elected Vice President. This is your idea of "failing upwards"?
You think that Sears' political career is superior to Harris'? Face it, you don't think, you just vomit biased ignorance in the way most of us breath air. I have no issue with Sears and wish her all the best. I wouldn't support her politics, but her life story is something that could only happen in America and makes the country stronger by including her voice.
The prior sentences are how any rational person should talk about Harris as well. You don't have to agree with her politically, but to demean and dismiss how unique her journey has been simply flies in the face of fact: No other women like her has ever achieved what she has in her career, Sears included. The fact that you can't recognize this as truth only confirms how warped your perceptions really are.
PS: The term failing upwards should only be used when speaking of people GIVEN their positions due to birth. favoritism or legacy. Minorities typically do not rise to the highest levels of anything unless they've already proven themselves superior to those they've competed against.
I never gaslight, I always have receipts, unlike you.
Kamala Harris ran her office like a prosecutor. Not everyone liked thatKamala Harris ran her office like a prosecutor. Not everyone liked that.
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But interviews with 33 current and former staffers and allies show that Harris herself - and the team around her - have undergone important changes since the most difficult days of her first year as vice president. These people close to Harris, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of assessing the Democratic nominee's leadership, say she grew into the role, found policy issues that more closely aligned with her comfort areas and replaced key aides with staffers who responded better to her management style.
People close to Harris say her widely praised presidential rollout, in which she quickly locked down the Democratic nomination following Biden's withdrawal and moved to capitalize on her party's enthusiasm and energy, are testaments to her management. They also point to the growing pool of alumni who have rejoined her team, particularly this summer. At least 20 staffers who previously worked for Harris are now working on her campaign, such as policy experts Rohini Kosoglu and Ike Irby, veterans of both her Senate and vice president's office.
Those allies and staffers say that Harris's management style hasn't changed - but the circumstances have. Rather than trying to find her voice as a first-time presidential candidate or brand-new vice president, she has suddenly become the party's standard-bearer. Office disputes during the height of the pandemic are now viewed as minor frustrations as Harris fights to keep Trump out of the White House.
"Her leadership roles, the way she thinks through problems and wants to tackle them - those have been a very consistent through line," Irby said in a recent interview. "The mechanics around her - and the opportunities that those offices provide for leadership - those have changed."
"She holds herself to an incredibly high standard, and therefore, she holds her team to a really high standard," expecting their work to be thorough and complete, said Daniel Suvor, a former aide in California's attorney general's office between 2014 and 2017.
We spoke to 5 people who knew Kamala Harris before she was VP. Here's what we learned.
When Harris became San Francisco's first female district attorney, she pursued Lateefah Simon for a job in her office. Simon declined the offer a few times, but recalls Harris telling her, "You can either carry this bullhorn on your back for the rest of your life, demanding that elected officials work for you and the young people that you care about, or you can become a part of my team, and we can actually deconstruct some of these inequities."
Simon went on to work for Harris for several years, and remembers her as a boss with high expectations. On Simon's first day, the new employee arrived "dressed down" in casual clothes, and Harris sent her home saying, "You are being paid by the very victims and survivors through tax dollars to represent them in this role. You will come with everything that you have every day."
Harris has earned a reputation for having a high turnover of staff over her years as a public official. Duran left his job as her communications director after just five months. His on-the-record criticisms echo the complaints of some other former employees who will only speak anonymously.
While Duran says Harris assembled a team of highly competent people, he says he was often frustrated by how long she could take to make decisions. He describes her as someone who was exacting on certain details of cases but could struggle with other details. He recalls a boss with standards that were high without being clear.
"I found it hard to navigate a situation where it wasn't really clear to me how I could do a good job because doing the job in a way that had worked everywhere else didn't seem to work there," he says.
At the same time, Duran acknowledges that that toughness may have come from the unequal pressures placed on Harris. "I think she's very aware of her place in history," he says, "And I think she felt that she would be held to a much, much higher standard than white or male politicians."
Where exactly have I gaslighted?By the same measure, for instance, her predecessor Mike Pence saw 83 percent turnover in his vice-presidential office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/06/harris-veep-boss-management/
"Simply ignorant beclowning, nothing more, nothing less." - #39 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-10-12 09:02 AM | Flag: Regarding your comment
Tony, with this post of yours I do believe that you've accurately described Bellringer.
Bravo.
"They all dropped out in order to clear a path for Biden over Sanders" - #49 | Posted by Bellringer at 2024-10-12 04:16 PM
Why is it that there's so much faux concern about Democratic Party machinations from those who, in reality, don't give a --- about the Democratic Party?
It is so transparent.
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