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.
Monday being a holiday, we bumped meet and eat a day to Tuesday.
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The morning got off to an auspicious start when we saw Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez (is there anywhere he doesn’t show up?) in the Four Seasons lobby before even descending the steps to breakfast.
Once the coffee was poured, we noticed Atlantic Media CEO John Fox Sullivan dining with Lincoln Property Co. Executive Vice President Jeff Franzen. Meanwhile, a couple of his top execs — Atlantic’s Consumer Media President Justin Smith and National Journal President Suzanne Clark — were also getting their day started together.
Lobbyist Ed Rogers was breakfasting with former Assistant Secretary of Defense Peter Rodman.
Lobbyist Juleanna Glover sat down with Gwen Russell, while Ed Mathias, managing director of private equity behemoth The Carlyle Group, was also spotted.
