Breaking: Report Of High Level DNC Infiltration In N. Carolina Sanders Campaign

[MADem]

173. This guy has never worked on a major staff before in a senior management position.

I have.

No one just gets to "call the principal" (the "principal" being the big wig for whom you work) because they have "important information" and a "need" to talk to them.

If someone needed to contact MY principal, I would have to vet their request and talk it over with at LEAST one person, and in my younger years, maybe more, before even APPROACHING the principal and asking if he or she wanted to take the call. 99 times out of 100, the task would be delegated to someone at or just under the Chief of Staff level.

Sanders is a candidate. He's not the king on the throne, listening to complaints from the little people and dispensing justice. He's got shit to do--he does not have time to hear from some mayor or campaign worker or volunteer. That's why he's PAYING senior staff--to do that stuff for him.


There is a trick to being a good staffer, certainly (the biggest trick is never, ever, EVER wear the boss's collar devices). The best staffers understand their role as an intermediary, check themselves routinely, stay humble, and don't abuse their privilege (and many good jobs come with lots of that). Good bosses, though, usually have good staffers--because those staffers keep the needs of their boss first and foremost in their minds.

Let's assume Sanders has a good, qualified, loyal, capable, and efficient senior staff. If we assume that, then this guy is just "off base," to put it as kindly as I can manage.