A hello, but no interview.Īll of the morning television shows, even perky Katie Couric, get turned down by the governor. No sale.ĭiane Sawyer came to pay a personal visit. The governor has resisted.Ĭonnie Chung and Barbara Walters have called. He wants to interview the governor _ LIVE. Toobin does a "Return to Hanging Chad" postcard from Tallahassee, recalling the city's 36-day media siege for the New Yorker. And so he leaves after a round of interviewing the lawyers who gained a few minutes of fame defending President Bush or Vice President Gore. But alas, there is no time for Toobin either. Simpson fame comes next to town, trying hard to get his foot in the governor's door for a book he's writing about the Florida election. Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker and O.J. After a frustrating week of trailing around the Florida Capitol listening to talk about tax cuts, affirmative action, high-speed rail and the like, he is gone, back to New York to write. The governor is polite, but distant, to the charms of Vanity Fair.įor days Margolick interviews, instead, members of the Florida press corps who know the governor best. Vanity Fair is doing a piece on Jeb, so they dispatched David Margolick, a contributing editor and former New York Times reporter of some renown.įor days Margolick shadows Bush, standing at his elbow while the governor rubs shoulders with lobbyists and legislators on the night before the session begins, sitting through the governor's State of the State speech.
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