Recently, one of the top donors of the Democratic Party, personally requested a meeting on behalf of Harris’s friend Flornoy but this meeting was also ignored.
The atmosphere in the office of US Vice President Kamala Harris is not good (file photo)
Kamala Harris’s aides and administration officials say that there is chaos inside the Vice President’s Office and it is all to the top. Harris’ team is experiencing low morale, lack of accurate communication and low trust between colleagues and senior executives. Much of the frustration internally has been directed at Tina Flornoy, Harris’ Chief of Staff.
In confidential interviews given to Politico by 22 current and former aides of Harris, administration officials and aides of Harris and Biden described the tense and sometimes deteriorating office environment. Colleagues said Tina and Harris have created an environment where ideas are overlooked and important decisions are postponed. Colleagues say Tina refuses to take responsibility for delicate issues and blames employees for the negative consequences.
abusive environment in the office
While much of the anger is on Tina Flourine, two administration officials said VP Harris himself was responsible for the way his office was run. ‘It all starts at the top,’ said an administration official. An official who is directly related to Harris’ office said that ‘people are blamed for a failure and it is an abusive environment,’ another said that ‘it is not a healthy environment and people Often victims of abuse. It is not a place where people feel supported but a place where people are treated like ‘dung’.
The chaos in the VP’s office challenges the carefully crafted image of the White House, where a close-knit group of professionals has converged to advance President Biden’s agenda. It’s clear enough that members of the president’s own team have taken notice of the disarray and are concerned about the way Harris’ employees are treated.
Officials defend Harris
Some Biden officials attribute the current state of Harris’ office to the fact that Harris is working with someone with whom he does not have a previous relationship. He feels that he has received bad advice for Harris from his Office of Press and Communications and feels that this is the reason why Harris has already lost two of his colleagues and a digital director.
Harris’ deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh issued a statement in return for these reports, saying that ‘Harris is committed to his work.’ Harris’ senior advisor and chief spokesperson Simone Sanders dismissed the complaints and defended Tina Flornoy, saying that “Tina follows an open door policy and black women like me don’t have the opportunity to work in politics without Tina.” get it.’ Regarding anonymous critics of Harris’ office, he said, ‘People are cowards for making such rhetoric.’
Many people have left jobs
Some of those who knew Harris best said it had become a pattern for Harris. Harris’ staff has changed a lot since the presidential campaign, and his team is completely new. In just the last six months, some of those colleagues in the Vice President’s office said he was looking for new jobs and other opportunities and that there were many who had already left. In recent days, two top employees, Carly Satkowiak and Gabrielle DeFranceschi, have parted ways with Harris. Harris officials believed it was a long-planned departure, but two other people familiar with the matter disagreed.
For DeFransecchi, his departure came as a result of a “difference in opinion on how things should run,” according to another person familiar with the matter, who said that Harris’s office is “very different” from Obama’s where DeFransecchi had previously has worked. A third Harris colleague, Rajan Kaur, who was handling Harris’ digital team, left Harris after choosing not to move from Brooklyn to Washington.
Ignored old friend’s call
Recently, Flornoy was requested for a meeting personally by a friend of Harris, one of the top donors of the Democratic Party, but this meeting was also ignored. Harris’s friend said it was unclear whether Florenoy knew who they were. He also personally contacted Harris’ office to have a meeting, and for weeks there was no response.
Harris’ friend said that ‘he has been in public life for 30 years. You cannot suddenly disappear by silence. The man dismissed the idea that Harris was unaware of the problems in his office. ‘This is a meeting request from a man who raised hundreds of millions of dollars for Harris and you’re ignoring him?’ ‘The next time Kamala remembers something we can say ‘Who are you?’, ‘I didn’t even get a call-back from your chief of staff!’, people inside and outside Harris’ office read this report More concerned that Harris’ office workers have low morale and are frustrated that his relationship with Biden and his team may suffer.
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