The Spat Heard Around the Speaker's Lobby

Things are heating up on Capitol Hill, which is the normal state of affairs between reporters and flacks who walk that delicate line of needing information and provoking the steaming rage of their sources.

And so the chatter amongst Hill reporters and leadership press flacks these days is of a widely known spat between House Maj. Leader Eric Cantor‘s spokesman Brad Dayspring and Politico reporter Jake Sherman. Last Thursday in the Speaker’s lobby, Dayspring, who is both liked and known to be something of a hothead with reporters, stormed in and was heard proclaiming that the reporter was cut off from the Cantor’s office and “done” (meaning, done with the conversation).

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