Lee Chief of Staff’s Comment Upsets Hatch Campaign

Salt Lake Tribune Washington Correspondent Thomas Burr

(KCPW News) Could comments made this week by the top aide for Utah’s freshman senator lead to a rift with Utah’s senior senator? That’s in question now, after Mike Lee’s chief of staff told Politico that Orrin Hatch’s decades of experience in Washington will be a negative thing during this election cycle. Every Friday, we talk with Thomas Burr, Washington Correspondent for the Salt Lake Tribune and author of Political Cornflakes, a daily, online round-up of Utah politics. KCPW’s Jeff Robinson asked him what Spencer Stokes had to say to Politico.

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