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In reply to the discussion: Good reporting here on a very bad situation in the House majority. I had not fully appreciated just [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and pushing her to do it. If they instructed their top staff members to refuse to work with him, he'd be unable to do his job, which of course is hers. That might explain his spew of the poison he's mostly been holding back.
What's not clear is why she chimed in supportively with her incredibly dishonest and politically stupid accusations that they were attacking her because she wasn't white. Talk about trying to make enemies!
I'd love to know if she's just been reminded that she's wandered too far from a radical anti-Democratic "revolution" she really believes in or whether professional swiftboaters Chakrabarti and the others have been threatening her into going along. Her personal staff includes dozens who would have been mostly chosen by chief-of-staff Chakrabarti; her also-large legislative staff I don't know but suspect he would have had a big say in also.
If she did want to separate, knowing they'd turn on her, she'd need to be building a representative record to run on and would need all the support she could get from the party...
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