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[MN] Rep. Bachmann’s office has high turnover rate
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Apr 17, 2008 09:00am |
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| News Date | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Jackie Kucinich
Posted: 04/15/08 06:56 PM [ET]
Ten of the 14 people Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) hired early last year have left the freshman’s office, according to public documents and sources familiar with the personnel changes.
The casualty list includes two chiefs of staff, a district director, a press secretary, two legislative assistants, a staff assistant, a caseworker, an outreach and grants coordinator and a district scheduler.
Bachmann spokesman Stephen Miller ascribed the departures to the “same old Washington shuffle” that comes with working on Capitol Hill.
“It’s the nature of the beast in Washington, D.C. … Staff moves from place to place,” he said. “All of us here are just so thrilled to be working for such a dedicated, principled member committed to reforming Washington.”
He noted that Tara Westby, a legislative correspondent who left Bachmann’s office, will return this summer.
Bachmann’s first chief of staff, Brooks Kochvar, stayed only two months, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
A third chief of staff, whom sources identified only as a former chief of staff to another member of Congress, was never officially on the payroll, but rescinded his decision to take the position prior to Kochvar’s tenure. Bachmann’s office, however, disputed this account. |
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