Speakeasy: Rick Scott’s staff and reporter exchange hate mail

This guy is exactly why I don’t read the New York Times.”

— Amy Graham, communications staffer for Florida Gov. Rick Scott, after a heated email exchange between New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski and Scott’s office. Kovaleski was not satisfied with the office’s response to his request for information about the Trayvon Martin case and Florida’s state attorney, and both sides got testy, accusing one another of playing games and being “bizarre.”

 

H/t: SaintPetersBlog

 

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