CV NEWS FEED // A Friday New York Post report called attention to a November 2019 op-ed penned by a California Democrat, accusing Harris of mistreating her staff and interns when she was serving as California’s attorney general.
The Post reported that it “unearthed” the op-ed by Democratic former Nevada County Superintendent of Schools Terry McAteer titled “Another side to Kamala Harris.”
In his op-ed, McAteer recounted the time his son Gregory served as an unpaid summer intern for then-Attorney General Harris during the 2010s.
“Gregory had an eye-opening experience in Kamala Harris’ office that none of us expected,” McAteer noted. “For his sake, the month could not pass quickly enough.”
McAteer went on to describe what he called the “hostile environment” Harris created in much detail:
Senator Harris vocally throws around “F-bombs” and other profanity constantly in her berating of staff and others. The staff is in complete fear of her and she uses her profanity throughout the day.
As Attorney General, Senator Harris instructed her entire staff to stand every morning as she entered the office and say, “Good Morning General.”
“Never once during the month-long internship did Harris introduce herself to our son (as he was only in an office with 20 paid employees) and staff was too intimidated by her to introduce him,” the Democratic father pointed out.
“The only acknowledgment was a form letter of ‘thanks’ signed by Harris given to him on his last day of service,” he wrote. “Gregory was also given instructions to never address Harris nor look her in the eye as that privilege was only allowed to senior staff members.”
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“I don’t know about you but this is not the workplace of someone who respects her staff,” McAteer stressed:
For a woman of color to have employees stand when she enters the room smacks of a bygone era that we, as Americans, deplore and find demeaning. Furthermore, that she didn’t show the quality of leadership skills or even being a decent boss — much less the “class” to approach Gregory at least once during the month to say “Hi, I’m Kamala Harris and I want to thank you for volunteering in my office” — is really troubling.
“Finally, what is up with the ‘don’t look her in the eye’ instruction?” McAteer asked his readers. “I know I wouldn’t want to work in that hostile environment!”
McAteer’s op-ed was published in The Union, a local newspaper from rural northern California.
He wrote it during the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, less than a month before then-Sen. Harris ended her ill-fated bid for the nomination – which failed to gain any substantial traction.
McAteer is from a well-connected Democratic political family. His late father J. Eugene McAteer served in the California Senate from 1959 to his death in 1967, representing San Francisco.
