UPDATE: 5:06pm — CONFIRMATION — The Senate Rules Committee has confirmed to a source that the Senator’s office has been closed because of the Senator actions concerning a staff member. Nice.
The doors to the office of the Senator are locked. Papers laying about outside are dated for yesterday. This is at least partial confirmation of a story that I’ve heard several times in the last hour. In fact, we’re bringing out the trusty "FlashReport Rule of Five" (if we hear something from five
reasonably good sources, we’ll throw it into the public marketplace of thought)…
We’ve heard that there was some sort of personnel-related blow out between the Senator and her staff — and while the details I have been given are varied enough to not want to throw them out (they conflict so obviously someone’s got it wrong) — the common thread is that the Senator’s office is locked, not by her own choosing, but by the Rules Committee.
Maybe this is all on the mark. Or maybe the Senator and her staff have been out on a 24 hour fact-finding mission to the Napa Valley (with someone besides the Senator driving). It will be interesting to find out!