It started when another assistant requested a meeting with her congress weasel, using her full name.\u00c2\u00a0 In a followup e-mail the assistant opened with the highly inflammatory and horribly insulting salutation “Hi Liz,”<\/p>\n
This led to a nineteen <\/em>e-mail-long hissy fit from Ms. Becton (Ms? Mizzz? Miz, as in Les Miz?) who wouldn’t stop whining about it despite a half dozen apologies from the assistant.\u00c2\u00a0 Becton accused the writer of name calling, then demanded to know the identity of the evil villain who put her up to it.<\/p>\n This is your tax dollars at work, folks.<\/p>\n Do a few other nicknames for her, perhaps not quite a friendly as “Liz,” spring to mind?<\/p>\n Update:\u00c2\u00a0 Surprisingly, Liz didn’t take the publicizing of her tirade very well.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s sent out a mass e-mail to all schedulers, announcing she’s going to find and punish the evil criminal who did the dastardly deed:<\/p>\n If I ever find out who you are, I will gladly advertise that it was you who forwarded the emails to the low-rent wonkette site. I will further inform the Speaker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office, Standards on Official Conduct, and all the other appropriate offices of what you did. And if you got paid for it, my lowly, putrid, little wonkette reader, you have committed a crime and you will be punished for it when you are found. I have contacted Telecom and I have informed them of what has happened and since it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a quiet day, they are checking all the forwarded emails from this list serve.<\/em> I prefer to be called Dave, not David.\u00c2\u00a0 The first time someone calls me David I correct them with one word: “Dave.”\u00c2\u00a0 If they persist, it’s not a big deal. Her Royal Highness Elizabeth Becton, the office manager for Rep. Jim McDermot, has a different approach.\u00c2\u00a0 She gets snotty, pissy, bitchy, and just when you’d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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