Ex-Katherine Harris aides describe the boss-from-hell abuse

[El Fuego]

Ex-Harris aides provide peek into campaign

The Palm Beach Post

Sunday, August 06, 2006

WASHINGTON — Standing outside a Starbucks in Sarasota, U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris was berating a campaign aide as customers at outdoor tables sat watching.

Two days earlier, she had left some books in the aide's car as he drove her to campaign events in Florida. That night, when she returned to Washington, she called the aide and told him to send the books to her right away. He sent them the next morning by FedEx, but Harris returned to Sarasota that day before the books arrived.

She kept saying 'I need those books. Why didn't you get them to me?' She wouldn't let it die," said the aide, one of more than a dozen key staffers who have quit Harris' campaign for the U.S. Senate this year.

Working for Katherine Harris was like working for Meryl Streep's super-demanding, hypercritical boss-from-hell character in the movie The Devil Wears Prada, said another former campaign aide.

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/state/epaper/2006/08/06/c1a_HARRIS_0806.html

[graywarrior]

1. Katherine and Joe need to start a support group for eachother.

[Totally Committed]

2. Lieberman/Harris '06...

The DELUSION Ticket.

TC

[ixion]

3. Ever see the movie: "swimming with sharks" ?

It's probably alot like that, I would imagine.

[napi21]

4. I suspected she was like that! You could tell just by watching

her facial expressions and actions during the 2000 recount!

[El Fuego]

7. She said her scary makeup was digitally added by the newspapers

That still cracks me up.

[napi21]

11. The makeup might have been, but the face and the angry glare

was ALL HARRIS!

[Warpy]

5. If you'd needed them that badly, you shouldn't have left them

behind. <click>

Honestly, these people are like children. Nobody has ever told them that their screwups are their own damned fault.

[El Fuego]

13. Childishness is the very essence of the republican party.

Whether they're shouting "Mine! Gimme gimme!" or crying "Waaah!" over little blastocytes.

[XOKCowboy]

6. Whadda psycho!

THIS is the person who oversaw the vote rigging in 2000? She had to have had help and was just a figurehead because she's way too shallow and stupid to pull it off by herself.

[salin]

8. Call me crazy, but I would guess that if you scratch the surface

of many current GOP politicos - who rode the crest of Newt/DeLay/Rove type political marketing, and believe that they were elected on their merits - but who now are having political problems with their campaign - I would bet that many would resemble this portrate of Harris. Just a guess.

[susu369]

9. Too funny

"The most important thing is they have integrity. I really thought we could run this race with integrity. I know campaigns tend to be nasty business, but I tried to get away from all of that. I hired preachers' kids and young people that I thought would sort of have a level of integrity."

[WhiteTara]

10. well here's the problem

For those travel aides, a top priority was to get her Starbucks coffee, no matter where she was campaigning, "and God help him if it wasn't hot," an aide said

Several aides said Harris was so obsessed with Starbucks coffee she insisted that Starbucks locations be mapped out when she was traveling from one campaign stop to another.

the woman is a caffeine junky and is always either tripping on the drug or is in withdrawal and needs more. What a moran! :rofl:

edited for spelling

[opihimoimoi]

12. Harris is the GOPs POSTER GIRL....She is the Model of them PUBs

most of them I suppose...

But this one reminds me of Leona Helmsley...the Famous QUEEN OF MEAN who abused her staff.