(Let’s take a schadenfreude break – promoted by Colorado Pols)
For a distraction…
At least four staffers with significant political portfolios have left Congressman Joe Sestak’s (D-7) Senate campaign in recent weeks, potentially leaving the Democratic challenger at an organizational deficit just three months before the primary, pa2010.com has learned.
And then…
J.J. Abbott, a communications staffer, has departed to take a job with Auditor General Jack Wagner’s gubernatorial campaign. That makes at least five staffers who have left the campaign in the last several weeks. Including Abbott, two of them have landed with Wagner.
And then, POW!
Specter to Sestak: You don’t pay your staffers jack
Senator Arlen Specter’s campaign on Thursday sharply criticized primary opponent Congressman Joe Sestak (D-7) for paying his campaign staff salaries that often amount to less than the minimum wage, and for wide pay disparities between the three siblings that work his campaign and other employees.
Followed by a tweet (which is how I saw it):
Cong. Sestak, either pay your employees minimum wage & comply with wage laws, or report yourself to the authorities.
Testy!
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No really, they love him. Why? I don’t know because I have heard from several people who have worked for him that he’s an absolute asshole but I guess that trait doesn’t matter when you’re a so called populist.
What a bummer.
Because Specter’s more than a bit tarnished by his party-hopping and incumbency.
I’m becoming pessimistic about this race; Toomey is an idiot – but, hey, PA is the state that elected Rick Santorum in the recent past.
If there’s one thing I dislike more than someone who underpays his workers , it’s a ‘party-hopper’. That’s turn-coatism. For the ‘party-hopper’, his interests come first and the interests of his constituents a poor second. Pity…
FWIW, I interviewed with Sestak’s team. They offered me $1100/month. I politely turned them down.
at 40 hrs a week/ 8 hr day. I would suspect a full time staffer would be putting in more like 50 to 60 hrs. a week, if not more.
At least you get discounted meals at McDonalds.
This is a petty attack. For the folks who have never worked on a campaign here. You work normally 9 – 9 or 9 – 10 everyday when you are a few months out from a Primary.
No staff on a campaign gets paid an hourly because we would break every labor law in the country. We do this because we love to do it and know we will never be million dollar earners.
What that does say is the top talent knows he is sinking are hopping off before there is a loss on their resume.
I didn’t turn them down b/c of the money, though that was a reason; I turned them down more b/c I didn’t like the vibe I was receiving from the campaign.
Sestak is reputed to be one of the biggest a-holes in the entire U.S. Congress, which is saying something. He couldn’t keep his congressional staff for more than 20 minutes either.
you might want to ask why Sen. Cantwell has gone through more than a LD a year since she’s been on the Hill.
There is at least a slight possibility that there is more than one asshole out of 535 on the hill.
But I can say with first-hand knowledge that Joe Sestak is an asshole.