CAPITOL GOSSIP: Hutchison Throws Hissy Over Which Reporter Will Cover Her Bus Tour

This weekend, we told you about Kay Bailey Hutchison’s audacious stunt for 2010–her bus tour scheduled right in the middle of an election cycle she isn’t even running in.

Now it seems as though The Aging Prom Queen (or at least her campaign) has thrown a bit of a hissy about which reporters are “favored” to cover the tour.

The word flying around the Capitol city this morning is that Hutchison invited the Austin American-Statesman and other Texas papers to send reporters to follow her on the tour.

As told to Capitol Annex, the Statesman advised Hutchison’s campaign that Washington correspondent Jason Embry would be joining the tour, since he was in Houston over the weekend. However, the Hutchison campaign told the Statesman that the invitation was only for Statesman reporter Gardner Selby, and nobody else. Since Selby was not available to cover the tour, the tour is without a representative from the Statesman.

We’ve heard this from several reliable sources, and have contacted a couple more to verify this. We’ll let you know what we hear.

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