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“It all starts at the top<\/strong>,” said one administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity (as they all did).<\/p>\n “People are thrown under the bus from the very top, there are short fuses and it\u2019s an abusive environment,” said another person with direct knowledge of Harris’ office. “It\u2019s not a healthy environment and people often feel mistreated.\u00a0It\u2019s not a place where people feel supported but a place where people feel treated like shit<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n As\u00a0Politico<\/em>\u00a0notes, “The dysfunction in the VP\u2019s ranks threatens to complicate the White House\u2019s carefully crafted image as a place staffed by a close-knit group of professionals working in concert to advance the president\u2019s agenda. It\u2019s pronounced enough that members of the president\u2019s own team have taken notice and are concerned about the way Harris\u2019 staffers are treated.”<\/p>\n Harris spokeswoman Symone Sanders –\u00a0a racist<\/a>\u00a0who\u00a0mocked a white Trump supporter<\/a>\u00a0after he was beaten by a group of black men – and was\u00a0passed over<\/a>\u00a0for Biden’s press secretary, pushed back against the nearly two-dozen accounts of dysfunction, saying Flournoy has an “open door policy,” and that “Black women like me would not have the opportunity to work in politics without Tina.”<\/p>\n Sanders called the anonymous sources “cowards.”<\/p>\n “We are not making rainbows and bunnies all day. What I hear is that people have hard jobs and I\u2019m like \u2018welcome to the club,'” Sanders continued. “We have created a culture where people, if there is anything anyone would like to raise, there are avenues for them to do so.\u00a0Whoever has something they would like to raise, they should raise it directly<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n Harris and Flournoy’s defenders are pulling the race card – saying that “Black women in particular\u2014are subjected to standards that men often don\u2019t have to clear. A tough and demanding office environment may be seen as a virtue for one and a sign of disorder and lack of leadership acumen for another.”<\/p>\n Staffers looking for an exit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n According to the report,\u00a0some of Harris’ aides are looking for other employment opportunities<\/strong>, while\u00a0others have left already.\u00a0<\/strong>In recent days, two top advance staffers, Karly Satkowiak and Gabrielle DeFranceschi, left the ‘dysfunctional’ office. And while Harris’ team said the departures were ‘long-planned’, two people familiar with the departures call bullshit.<\/p>\n For DeFranceschi, the deputy director of advance,\u00a0the departure came down to a \u201cdifference in opinion on how things should run,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>according to another person familiar with the matter, who said that Harris\u2019 office is run \u201cvery different\u201d from the Obama operation, where DeFranceschi previously worked. \u201cIf you have an opinion about how things should run and it\u2019s not listened to, that can be frustrating.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n DeFranceschi did not respond to a request for comment.<\/em><\/p>\n A third Harris aide who worked on her digital team, Rajan Kaur, left the staff after opting not to relocate to Washington from Brooklyn.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Anita Dunn, a senior adviser to the president, defended Flournoy as well as the decision to keep news of the border trip contained among a small group of people, saying Harris\u2019 office didn\u2019t want it to leak or \u201cturn it into a spectacle.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIt was closely held and there may be people whose feelings were a little hurt on her staff that they weren’t brought into the discussion,<\/strong>\u201d Dunn said. \u201cBut any suggestion that it was mishandled or kept a secret from people who needed to know about the arrangements or needed to know about it is absolutely not true.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Asked if she was aware of the complaints about the VP\u2019s office, Dunn replied that it was \u201cnot anywhere near what you are describing.\u201d -Politico<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Flournoy, a veteran of the Clinton White House and Al Gore’s 2000 campaign, is part of an ‘informal group of Black women who\u2019ve worked together for decades in Democratic politics, which includes Donna Brazile, Minyon Moore, Leah Daughtry and Yolanda Caraway,’ according to the report.<\/p>\n “Look, [Tina\u2019s] strong, she’s intelligent, she’s driven, and she expects strong, intelligent, driven people around her,” said Daughtry, adding “But some people may find strong, driven, smart people intimidating, but I think that\u2019s more projection than reality because that\u2019s just not Tina’s intent or style. And nothing in her experience would lead you to think that she\u2019s an intimidating person.”<\/p>\n So the staffers are the problem? Hilarious.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/symone%20sa.jpg?itok=5oD_2rUE\")
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