Renana Brooks runs the Sommet Institute for High Profile High Performance in Washington, a treatment institute for Washington s successful and their families that teaches people how not to pay the price of success. She says that some of the elements that serve as strengths for a legislator are not strengths in the same person s personal life. When you re dealing with people in positions of power, they have a natural way of minimizing thinking of other people to do a good job. They are diminished in their sensitivity and preoccupied with their own sense of power and feel that their views are the right views, says Brooks. As for Moran s outbursts or inappropriate expressions of anger, Brooks says anyone can learn to change with enough work.
People usually excuse such behavior they are in power and they don t have to change.
His character may even be endearing to some. It usually takes a forceful life experience to initiate change, she says. Meanwhile, Moran is running for reelection, and his Republican opponent, Demaris Miller, ran against him in 1998 as well. Asked if she ever experienced one of Moran s temper tantrums, his opponent referred to a campaign forum in which they participated. He jumped out of his seat and headed my direction, but there was a moderator and all those people.