ANOTHER EMBARRASSMENT FOR TEXAS

Woke Dem Rep. Jasmine Crockett's control freakery and monster ego exposed in magazine interview that left her furious

 

By Germania Rodriguez Poleo 

 

Daily Mail

Jul 28, 2024

 

Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett shut down a profile by The Atlantic after the journalist contacted her colleagues in congress

 

Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett's obsession with controlling her image, monster ego and shabby treatment of staff has been exposed by a new profile.

The hard left Texas congresswoman, 44, was seen scolding colleagues over scheduling and food by The Atlantic journalist Elaine Godfrey, who profiled her for the prestigious magazine.

Godfrey also remarked on Crockett's obsession with her own image - and cuttingly revealed that the lawmaker's phone lock screen is a picture of Crockett herself. 

The journalist was granted access to Crockett for her profile - only to have it unceremoniously revoked after she contacted other lawmakers to ask their thoughts on the rising star Democrat.

Those secondary interviews are a standard procedure for such profiles - but Crockett was outraged.  

'Four days before this story was published, Crockett called me to express frustration that I had reached out to so many House members without telling her first,' Godfrey wrote.

'[Crockett] was, she told me, “shutting down the profile and revoking all permissions.”'

Godfrey revealed that as many as 33 of Crocket's colleagues in congress declined to comment on her story or ignored her request.

'Staffers for some of those colleagues told me that some of them see Crockett as undisciplined—but are reluctant to criticize her publicly,' Godfrey noted. 

 

The Atlantic journalist Elaine Godfrey shared that an angry Crocket called her to revoke access after she followed basic journalism protocols by contacting the lawmaker's colleagues

 

Journalists took to social media to note that Godfrey's journalistic behavior was the norm and that Crockett's response was not appropriate.

'That is not how any of this works,' wrote NBC political reporter Sahil Kapur.

'Free advice to profile subjects: do not ever do this,' added The Bulwark reporter Joe Perticone.

Before she shut down the profile, Crocket bragged about her newfound notoriety as a firebrand progressive who is willing to 'go low' with populist Republicans such as Marjorie Taylor Greene. 

'I don’t second-guess shit,' she replied when asked if she regretted any of her controversial comments - including when she called Texas governor Greg Abbott, who uses a wheelchair, 'Governor Hot Wheels.'

At the time, Crockett claimed she was referencing Abbott sending migrants to New York City on buses. 

Before losing access, The Atlantic's writer also got to see Crockett interacting with her staff in what she described as a 'brusque manner.'

Crockett reportedly called an aide to scold him for an unclear note on her schedule and told another assistant a bag of food they had brought her, 'looked like crap.'

Godfrey also revealed Crockett's is 'highly conscious of her self-presentation.'

'During many of our conversations, Crockett wore acrylic nails painted with the word RESIST , and a set of heavy lashes over her brown eyes,' Godfrey wrote, before adding that 'The lock screen on her phone is a headshot of herself.'

 

Crockett has repeatedly signaled that she might run for a senate seat when Republican John Cornyn is up for re-election this year

 

In 2024, Crockett became a viral social media sensation after calling Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor-Greene a 'bleach blond bad built butch body.' 

Throughout The Atlantic's piece, Crockett lamented that her Democratic colleagues shut her out of the top position on the House Oversight Committee - even though she has the most social media followers.

'It’s like, there’s one clear person in the race that has the largest social-media following,' she said. 

Crockett has repeatedly signaled that she might run for a senate seat when Republican John Cornyn is up for re-election this year. 

'My philosophy is: Stay ready so you don’t have to get ready,' she told The Atlantic about a potential senate run.