Hillary Clinton surely doesn’t need more distractions from her already tumultuous campaign for President, but it appears that all is not well at the Clinton Foundation. According to the New York Post’s Page Six, Chelsea is so difficult to work with that she has provoked an exodus of high-level staffers since she joined the organization as vice chairman in 2011.
The Post quotes an insider who explains:
A lot of people left because she was there. A lot of people left because she didn’t want them there… She is very difficult.
Those alleged to have left due to Chelsea’s abrasive style include Matt McKenna, her former spokesman, Ginney Ehrlich, the founding CEO of the Clinton Health Matters Initiative, and Chelsea’s former McKinsey colleague Eric Braverman.
A source for the Post article describes:
He [Braverman] was her boy, but he tried to hire his own communications professional and actually tried to run the place. He didn’t understand that that wasn’t what he was supposed to be doing. He was pushed out.
One issue with Chelsea’s leadership may be the difficulty of communicating with her personally. She reportedly employs a personal staff of five (as compared to her father, former president Bill Clinton, who has a staff of six).
The Post reports that co-workers at her former employers, McKinsey and NBC News, were told not to contact Chelsea directly. A source at NBC, which paid Chelsea $600,000 a year while she was in their employ, told the Post, “If someone wanted to talk to Chelsea about something, they had to go through a producer.”
It sounds like both mother and daughter may need lessons in being unscripted.
