Senator Amy Klobuchar once ate a salad with her comb and then asked a staff member whom she berated for not getting her a fork to clean it afterwards, it has been reported.
The incident allegedly took place at an airport in 2008 while Klobuchar was headed to South Carolina, four people with knowledge of the episode told The New York Times.
The aide was carrying the salad for his boss while also hauling their bags through an airport terminal when he accidentally dropped the plastic eating utensils.
After they reached the gate, Klobuchar reprimanded the staff member for not having a plastic fork ready for her to use.
She then allegedly stunned her team by using a comb to eat the salad. She then gave the comb to her aide and told her to clean it.
This is the latest in a series of revelations made in recent weeks about Klobuchar’s purported tendency to humiliate and mistreat her staff.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar (second from left) greets local residents at a banquet in Des Moines, Iowa on Thursday
The claims are especially surprising given that Klobuchar has throughout her political career cultivated an image of ‘Minnesota nice’ that has endeared her to voters.
‘The senator has repeatedly acknowledged that she can be tough and push people hard,’ Carlie Waibel, a campaign spokesperson for Klobuchar, told the Times.
‘But these anonymous stories - some of which are just plain ridiculous - do not overshadow the countless experiences of people on the senator’s team who she has been so proud to work with.’
At a recent town hall hosted by CNN, Klobuchar said that her tough demeanor is because of her ‘high expectations’ for her team.
‘Am I a tough boss sometimes? Yes,’ she said. ‘Have I pushed people too hard? Yes.’
The senator from Minnesota has been subject to a number of unflattering stories in the news media which quote former aides.
These ex-staff members say that they were on the receiving end of Klobuchar’s chiding, which came in response to relatively minor slip-ups.
Klobuchar’s treatment of her staff has attracted more attention in recent weeks as it became apparent that she would announce her candidacy for the presidency.
The Democratic senator made a formal announcement to that effect in Minneapolis on February 10.
Klobuchar’s tendency to humiliate and degrade her staff created a work environment permeated by fear, distrust, and paranoia, according to the Times.
Former staffers would not go on the record, fearing that Klobuchar would seek to retaliate against them.
They even saved damaging emails from Klobuchar to use as evidence in case the senator would try to ruin their reputations in Washington, D.C.
The ex-aides said Klobuchar would occasionally throw office supplies, including binder and telephones, at them in frustration.
Some say the senator would make them do tasks that were not part of their job requirement, like wash her dishes or pick up her dry cleaning.
Klobuchar would also fire off angry late-night emails and phone calls over minor errors, it has been alleged.
After a political event, a dissatisfied Klobuchar wrote in one email to staff: ‘In 20 years in politics I have never seen worse prep.’
In another angry email, she wrote: ‘This is the hands down worse thing you have ever given me.’
Klobuchar tweeted a photo on February 10 of her out with her staff the night she officially announced her candidacy for president in Minnesota
During an office meeting with staff, Klobuchar is alleged to have said: ‘This is the worst press staff I ever had.’
Staffers said this was something Klobuchar would repeat about both predecessors and successors in the office.
Klobuchar also ripped into her underlings for how they managed her social media account.
'We are becoming a joke,' she wrote in an email about the items posted on her Twitter feed, 'and it is making me a joke.'
The Times also reported that Klobuchar’s office had an unusual paid leave policy which forced employees to remain for three times as many weeks as they had been gone once they return.
Klobuchar’s office also required employees to pay back money earned during the weeks they were on leave, according to the Times.
Klobuchar’s office said that it would revise the paid leave policy.
‘We offer 12 weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave for our staff and have one of the strongest paid leave policies in the Senate,’ said spokeswoman Elana Ross.
‘We’ve never made staff pay back any of their leave and will be changing that language in the handbook.’
Still, there are those who defend Klobuchar.
Erikka Knuti, who once worked as a press aide to the senator, remembers being snapped at by her then-boss in front of another lawmaker in an elevator.
‘That wasn’t O.K.,’ a contrite Klobuchar told Knuti.
‘It made me feel valued,’ Knuti said.
Klobuchar has had among the highest rates of staff turnover in the Senate.
Her defenders say that she is being singled out because she is a woman, and that Capitol Hill is full of male lawmakers who are just as tough - if not more so - on their staff.
Jonathan Becker, who once worked as Klobuchar’s chief of staff, said the hard-charging senator forced staffers to raise their level of performance.
‘Isn’t that what the American people want in a president?’ Becker said.
‘They’re not looking for mashed potatoes.’
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Main photo article Senator Amy Klobuchar once ate a salad with her comb and then asked a staff member whom she berated for not getting her a fork to clean it afterwards, it has been reported.
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