Apparently Brainna Wu went digging through archives and found a 2 year old blog I’d taken out of publiction where I said she’s a “former GOP fundraiser” and is wrong for Progressives.
Brianna, a former GOP staff member for Trent Lott (R -MS) and intern for Michael Steele apparently worked for 5 years for the GOP according to her own tweets.
She was also “as Republican as you can be” until age 25 according to her own tweets.
I don’t think that’s “briefly” according to the standard dictionary definition.
Since I am happy to correct any unintional mistakes I emailed back a pretty extensive set of questions.
1.. What party did she fundraise for?
2. How long did she work for Trent Lott (R – MS)
Is “fundraising” a part of a political campaign? She said she’s worked at every level of a campaign.
Is 5 years a “brief” period?
Brianna Wu emailed back saying,
Okay, that’s fair to base it off that Tweet. I was trying to sum up a summer where I attended a lot of fundraisers in the evening as part of my job and saw a lot of really weird shit. It was an imprecise statement on Twitter, back in 2014 when there was only 140 characters.
But, I’m telling you directly, I never worked as a fundraiser.
Brianna’s job duties included some activities linked to fundraising.
That’s certainly reasonable and expected in Washington D.C. where networking is a critical job function.
She was not a “Fundraiser” which some may take to mean “rain maker” or “bundler” or something illicit.
I apologize for any negative implications that may have been inferred by others based upon the title of the blog.
WanderinPoet 