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January 16, 2013
Obama Campaign (socialists )Staffers Left Unemployed And Without Health Insurance, Not Invited To Inaugural Festivities
Obama Campaign Staffers Left Unemployed And Without Health Insurance, Not Invited To Inaugural Festivities
In a sour footnote to President Barack Obama’s sweeping electoral victory last November, many of his campaign staffers have been shut out of the inaugural festivities, more than a dozen of them complained to BuzzFeed Monday.
“We worked our butts off, and I’m going to watch it on TV instead of being there,” said one former staffer. “It’s a huge bummer.”
Former staffers — who spoke to BuzzFeed on the condition of anonymity to preserve their relationships, and possible jobs, in Obama’s second term — say they have grown frustrated by what they see as inadequate communication from the Presidential Inaugural Committee, the group responsible for the inaugural balls, and in particular by its restrictions on access to the official events.
“I didn’t hear anything from PIC until a little more than a week ago,” said another staffer. “They knew this was happening. Instead of giving us details [of what we could attend] on November 7th, we found out so late that it would cost me $2,000 to go to Washington for a weekend as opposed to $1,000 or less if I booked two months ago.” [...]
Claims that they were snubbed have consumed the conversation on the Obama campaign alumni LinkedIn group, said the first staffer.
Obama staffers were paid substantially less than Romney staffers in similar jobs in 2012, and many took pay cuts of $30,000-range from prior jobs, former staffers say. The final payday for staffers was the Friday after the election, as opposed to weeks later for the Republican campaign; health insurance was cut off in November as well.
Many remain unemployed.
Wild Thing's comment.........................
LOL I sure don't feel sorry for any of them. Idiots and America haters every one of them.
Posted by Wild Thing at January 16, 2013 12:44 AM
Comments
This is the guy who made a big deal about that Lilly Ledbetter law about equal pay for men and women while paying his female staffers less than men.
Posted by: BobF at January 16, 2013 09:28 AM
( ) Hear that ? That was me playing hearts and flowers for the poor OFA staffers on the world's tiniest violin. Perhaps DHS Sec. "Butch" Napolitano will hire them to sniff our homes for "illegal" firearms-while armed themselves...
Posted by: Willy at January 17, 2013 02:09 PM
