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What's it like to work for America's most scandal-ridden politician? "I have held previous communications jobs that were a baptism by fire," writes Naysa Woomer, who served as Rep. George Santos's communications director for five months until May. "With apologies to Robert Oppenheimer, this was a baptism by atomic bomb." |
Woomer explains why she took the job with Santos, who faces a raft of federal criminal charges, and why she didn't immediately resign when the scandals began to pile up. "I had to do my small part to try to uphold the integrity of the congressional system by guiding a scandal-stricken freshman politician into a functioning member of Congress who could serve the people with the respect and, yes, integrity, they deserve." But Woomer says that ultimately she could not tolerate Santos's "lack of honor, office dysfunction and unmanageable chaotic behavior." "I was willing to sacrifice a paycheck to walk away with my integrity." Woomer's chief concern now is how her five months working for Santos will affect her employment prospects. "I cannot help but wonder if I am tainted in a way that will make it difficult to find work in politics again. I hope not. I pray not." Whatever happens, Woomer says there's one thing her former boss can never take away: her integrity. Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Views & Opinions newsletter, it's Friday, Sept. 15. I'm Daniel Allott, bringing together a collection of key opinion pieces published from a wide range of voices. |
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Op-eds exploring key issues affecting the U.S. and world: |
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By Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Democratic candidate for president |
Global expansion of plastic production, especially with single-use plastics, has created a crisis for human health and the environment. President Biden has failed to confront the problem. He has focused on false environmental solutions that waste billions of taxpayer dollars, as plastic pollution rapidly gets worse. |
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By Max Burns, Democratic strategist |
For all of his reputation-destroying efforts to placate the insatiable demagogues in the Freedom Caucus, McCarthy finds himself exactly where he started in January: fighting to control his own fate. The Freedom Caucus may make good on its frequent threats to hold a vote that ousts McCarthy from the speakership. They might not. With Comer, Jordan and Gaetz clearly in control of House business, such a formality hardly matters anymore. |
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By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College |
Meadows contended the conduct that was the subject of the Georgia indictment was "authorized by federal law or the Constitution" and that he did no "more than what was necessary and proper" to effectuate his federal duty. Judge Jones found both of those contentions wanting. |
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By Dov S. Zakheim, former deputy undersecretary of Defense |
Neither Narendra Modi nor his fellow summiteers explicitly stated that the proposed economic corridor is meant to compete with China's flagging, but still important, Belt and Road Initiative. But Modi took a not-very-subtle swipe at the massive Chinese project, which he has criticized virtually since its inception, stating that Beijing employed the Initiative as a vehicle for "debt trap diplomacy" in order to establish hegemony over resource-rich or strategically important states. |
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