This might help explain the press coverage, actually: Katherine Harris (remember her? too much makeup, rides horses?) refused to meet with any and all Florida newspaper editorial boards. Which, you know, you’re supposed to do when running for Senate. And now, embarrassingly, she’s come crawling back.

“Well, we had some staff that felt that was a bad idea,” Harris said Friday. “But I think it’s a good idea, so we’ve called. … I said, ‘I don’t know why we’re not doing these; I want to do them.’”

Except that it’s only a couple weeks until the primary and there’s not a newspaper printed on god’s green earth that will endorse her now. Meanwhile, in the St. Petersburg Times Buzz blog, the comments section is being graced with the participation of someone claiming to be a former Harris staffer. Learn completely unsurprising (but still hilarious) secrets about life in the bubble, after the jump.

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You know what that blurry screengrab means! Take it away, Katy!

Today: the St. Petersburg Times piece we warned you about has dropped. Katherine Harris is, apparently, somewhat difficult to work for.

Buying the wrong candy for her to toss at parades. Photographing her vertically instead of horizontally. Failing to bring her favorite Starbucks beverage (extra hot venti triple latte, no fat, no foam, one Sweet’N Low).

One minute, U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris would lavish campaign staffers with praise and hugs. The next she would lose her temper, screaming “stupid” or “idiot” at a startled employee.
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Spokeswoman Jennifer Marks said Harris had grown tired of the misperceptions about her and would refer the newspaper to other former staffers who would speak positively about her. After more than a week, her office failed to produce any names.

Backstabbers! All of them! That doublecrossing intern knew that latte was grande, dammit!

Learn the Katherine Harris method for successful debating, after the jump.

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An email sent out from the Katherine Harris campaign to a large number of volunteers: MORE »