opinion Jill Lawrence USA TODAY Published 5:00 AM EST Feb 25, 2019 Sen. Amy Klobuchar sounds like a strange and unpleasant boss. New reporting on her management style is especially striking given her outward persona as a “Minnesota nice” next-door neighbor. The record shows Klobuchar has consistently high staff turnover. Accounts in HuffPost, BuzzFeed News and The New York Times, based on reviews of documents and internal emails as well as interviews with as many as 20 former staffers who insisted on anonymity, suggest Klobuchar can be volatile, abusive and paranoid — dressing down aides in public and in humiliating emails copied to many others, calling their work “slop,” suspecting them of sabotage, making it hard for them to find other jobs, making them pick up her clothes and wash her dishes (including a comb she used to eat a salad after berating an aide who didn’t bring a fork). Is it sexist to discuss this topic? Is it irrelevant? Is it unfair, given the deficiencies of the “manager” now in the White House? And is it so damaging that Democrats should write off Klobuchar as a presidential contender? The answer in every case should be no. Read more commentary: Elizabeth Warren didn’t miss her presidential moment. Win… Read full this story
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