Rep. Jasmine Crockett has positioned herself as the freshest face of the Democratic Party. How happy most Democrats are about that is an open question, but her time in the spotlight has been a boon for Republicans.
Crockett has become the perfect representation of left-wing vapidity, arrogance, and absurdity. Despite growing up wealthy and attending expensive private schools, she code-switches into speaking as if she has no more than a grade school education. Meanwhile, she brags about her degrees and claims Donald Trump is a dictator, while making fun of people in wheelchairs. So yeah, she fits right in with the modern crop of Democratic Party politicians.
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Given her public behavior, one might suspect Crockett is even worse behind the scenes, and a new report has confirmed that. According to the New York Post, which spoke to several sources close to her, the congresswoman is the "boss from hell," and that's when she bothers to show up for work.
Crockett is not often found at her government-provided suite in the Longworth House Office Building, with one insider saying she prefers to work from her nearby luxury apartment building, sometimes for weeks on end.
“She is laying around her apartment, won’t come into the office, and is really just indifferent to staff and will scream at them,” the former aide said.
“She is never in the office and is very disengaged. She does her bulls— that goes viral, and then freaks out over the most random things.”
Who could have possibly guessed that Crockett is not only insufferable, but she's also incredibly lazy. There were just no signs. But really, this is exactly what you'd expect from someone who is such a loudmouth in public. The vulgarity and constant dramatics aren't the kind of thing that can be isolated to her press interviews and speeches, and her personality issues only get worse when the cameras are off.
For example, Crockett makes her staffers rent an "Escalade" to transport her to and from hearings and votes at the Capitol Building. Whichever unlucky staffer picks her up is then forced to act like a chauffeur, standing by the vehicle and then driving her around like she's royalty.
When Crockett does show up for work on Capitol Hill — often to attend a committee hearing where she deploys a made-for-social-media attack on Trump — she prefers to have a staff member drive her the short distance to her office in a rented car rather than the staffer’s own, a cheaper option commonly used by lawmakers.
The staffer is expected to stand outside the vehicle, which “has to be an Escalade” or similar upscale make, and open the door for her.
“You’re technically allowed to do this but it’s wildly inefficient. Instead of using the scheduler’s car, she rents a car every week in DC,” one source said.
“She expects her staff to drive her around while she’s in the back seat,” they added, calling it a “power play” akin to “treating the staffer like an Uber driver.”
If you've followed the story of Tiffany Henyard, dubbed America's "worst mayor" before being booted from office for an unbelievable amount of corruption, you understand the dynamic here. Crockett is also drawing comparisons to the late Shelia Jackson-Lee, who was secretly recorded viciously abusing her staff.
Naturally, because Crockett is so abusive to her staff, she has trouble keeping them. Her turnover rate has continued to grow, and she's already shuffled through several different chiefs of staff.
“She causes some kind of tension and issue, the hearing has to stop, the chairman has to bang the gavel. It’s like a spectacle and a show … Not everything has to be clipped for MSNBC.”
Crockett has also cycled through several chiefs of staff, with one observer saying it’s “because they want her to do her actual job, and the actual job of a member of Congress isn’t fun and glamorous. So unless you are somebody willing to say yes to all of the outrageous things she would like to do, you’re not gonna last long.”
Another source slammed Crockett for turning hearings into anti-Trump circuses, even when they are about "the most basic stuff."
“The staff is really just an island unto itself, because she doesn’t care about the local issues happening in her district,” this person added. “She’s more focused on, ‘Get me on “The View,” ‘Get me on this late-night talk show.’
“A lot of [congressional] hearings are on the most boring, basic s—. So how is it at every hearing, it’s about Trump? It’s about Trump again and again and again. And it’s like, she’s not actually doing any real work. She’s at a hearing — we can be talking about the budget, they can be talking about appropriations — and she brings it back to Trump every time,” the source griped.
Again, none of this is surprising. Crockett has always come across as a diva with far more ambition than talent. She has made a mockery of the U.S. Congress, and since the incentives for popularity in politics are so screwed up, you can expect her to get much worse as her career drags on. If you think she's bad now, just wait until she runs for president because, yes, that is absolutely going to happen at some point.
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