Sen. Amy Klobuchar's Mistreatment Of Staff Scared Off Candidates To Manage Her Presidential Bid

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

32. This isn't just GOP ratf*cking, though they'd use it if they could, just as the MN GOP did in 2006.

Unfortunately, these claims have been made ever since 2006, when she was the Hennepin County Attorney and first ran for the Senate. At that time the local GOP made a big deal of some staff complaints and tried to get the union, AFSCME, to withhold their endorsement, but they endorsed her anyhow and she went on to win. However, there seems to be at least some basis for these complaints, and whether it's coming from just a few disgruntled employees or maybe people over-reacting to a demanding boss (maybe because of her gender?), it seems to me that it's something that needs to be addressed head-on, and explained and dealt with early, so it can't be made a big deal when the primaries start up.

All of the candidates are going to have flaws, and maybe a few skeletons in their closets, even if just a femur or a thumb bone. Some of these might be problematic; some not; some maybe not even real. But it's better to know about them before voters have to make decisions. Give the candidates a chance to address the claims and be done with them if possible, and move on. We don't want a situation like Virginia or John Edwards.