Manners
Emily Murphy’s letter is getting shredded for being petty, unprofessional, egotistical, and rude.
She is trying to suggest that Biden was somehow responsible for or encouraging them https://t.co/fKj4LX39zC
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) November 23, 2020
She wants him to feel her pain.
The first of these letters was addressed, “Dear President-Elect Obama.” This one was sent to “the Honorable Joseph R. Biden Jr.” and begins, "Dear Mr. Biden.”
Just an unbelievable level of pettiness.
— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) November 23, 2020
Summary:
2008:
Dear President-elect,
Ive ascertained you winner. Here is how much money you have to work with2020:
Dear Mr. Biden,
We're gonna give you transition money. Whine whine whine…(page 2) whine. And here's how much money you have to work withTOTALLY unprofessional
— Kurt "Masks Save Lives" Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) November 23, 2020
Dear *Mr. Biden*:
I guess you can be president now.
Just so you know, I did everything right and nothing wrong. Here's some stuff about me.
More me.
Trump had nothing to do with it. I barely know who he is.
If my office can help in any way, here's a subordinate you can call. https://t.co/TysPOyW2YR
— Bryan Edward Stone (@bestoneTX) November 23, 2020
It really is just part of the entire pattern of this administration. She fits in nicely.
This should really just have been a form letter. We didn’t need the whole sob story in the public record.
Initial, albeit unsubstantiated reports from anonymous “friends” were that she didn’t want to send the ascertainment letter out of “loyalty to the administration, which had given her the job”. That sounds a lot more likely given Trump’s obsession with the “loyalty” of his underlings, than that she had some pressing constitutional duty that she was observing. AFAIK, she’s not even a constitutional lawyer, so she couldn’t have even made a reasoned decision along those lines, anyway.
Would there have been anything in it worth reading anyway? The form may be puerile but the substance is of no consequence.