Doctor-Congresswoman scares off D.C. staffers
Roll Call is reporting (subscriber-only) that Doctor-Congresswoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs has already managed to rub some people the wrong way early in what will be a short tenure in Congress:
The woman who was sworn in this week as the interim Republican successor to ex-Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) was, shall we say, not a hit with holdover DeLay aides.
In fact, they showed their feelings about their new boss Tuesday by walking out of the office en masse and resigning, effective immediately.[snip]
She showed up to take over DeLay's old office on Thursday and, according to sources familiar the office dynamics, was "mean" to the staff. On Tuesday, at her new Member's open-house reception in the office, sources charged that she was less than pleased that neither President Bush nor Vice President Cheney showed up with the rest of the welcome wagon, despite the fact that others who stopped by included Texas GOP Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn and Texas GOP Reps. Kevin Brady and Michael Burgess. (Apparently, according to sources, she was under the impression that the president of the United States would be there to greet the seven-week Congresswoman.)
We hope Doctor-Congresswoman enjoys her short stay in Congress. One suspects that some former colleagues on City Council are not going to miss her much, and it doesn't sound as though professional staffers or anyone else in D.C. will either.
UPDATE: Of course, the useless Chronicle D.C. bureau reports nothing of this development in its coverage of the Doctor-Congresswoman.
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Posted by Kevin Whited @ 11/15/06 11:05 AM | Print |
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