Political Junkies: Storage Closet

Spin Room Dept: Instead, campaign director Brad Lavigne and Karl Belanger, Jack Layton s senior press secretary, stayed silent in what was comically called the NDP spin room an old storage closet in Ottawa s Government Conference Centre, draped for privacy and containing a single screen TV with a direct feed to the debate onstage, according to The Star. The home run was what political junkies call the pivot. You get lobbed the big question and you pull off a pivot, smashing it right back in your opponent s face and taking the game. Or you flop around like a dead fish and on Tuesday, April 12, the evening of the English-language leaders debate, a couple of NDP strategists were so jazzed they could barely contain themselves. But they couldn t say a word. They could be overheard by their nearby counterparts in the other parties and so had to be satisfied with significant looks and nods. As campaign director Lavigne recalls: At that moment we knew our guy had just scored a home run. As reported in the news.
@t government conference centre, nearby counterparts