UC Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation published a Q&A with McCullough as Speaker Pelosi’s chief of staff during Alumni Week (the campus news item dated the conversation April 24, 2021). The page is her words. Sample, not a dump.
On the job that week: “the other day I had meetings about a January 6th commission that the Speaker is trying to establish on a security supplemental spending bill related to January 6th.” On Pelosi: “She is the most powerful woman in American political history and she uses that power solely to make change for people who need it.” On Kamala Harris: “it is also thrilling to be able to see her again in this capacity” as “the first woman, the first black woman, the first Asian American woman, vice president.” On why the shop keeps going: fighting for racial and gender justice and health care; Pelosi’s “why” is child poverty.
On January 6’s effect on recruiting: “one of the devastating consequences of what happened in January is that I fear people think working for an elected official or a public servant is not a path that they will want to take.” Those are her sentences. They are not a confession, a Guard order, or an invented quote.