Each week, Yeas & Nays joins Carol Joynt, the host of the Q&A Cafe at Nathans of Georgetown, at various power breakfast spots around the city to see which players are getting their day started with deal-making, networking and glad-handing.
On the morning after the Kennedy Center Honors (and with Congress heading back to D.C.), the Four Seasons was a breakfast hot spot. Former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle bumped into current Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, who, with his wife, had what we’ll call a “marrieds” breakfast: One spouse reads the paper while the other talks on the cell phone. Oh, Washington romance. …
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Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, the chairwoman of the board of the American Red Cross, sat alone at her table for almost a half-hour before being joined by a reporter to do an interview. Given the difficult week McElveen-Hunter has had (the president of the Red Cross stepped down from the position following reports of an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate), the line of questioning was probably comparable to a strong jolt of caffeine on a Monday morning.
Core Capital Partners’ Jonathan Silver held court with his Core colleagues at his regular table. One passerby said “hello,” looked at the table of wealthy hot shots and declared, “this is the most expensive square footage right here!”
A big, circular table in the middle featured former Tennessee Sen. Bill Brock III, who sat next to “Beltway Boy” Mort Kondracke, among eight other friends.
Also in the room: Breakfast regular David Bradley from Atlantic Media, Bill and Diane Moss, in from Texas, and FasterCure’s Greg Simon, who previously served as Al Gore’s domestic policy adviser.
