White House mystery: Florist said to have been escorted off grounds

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When White House chief pastry chef Bill Yosses left the executive mansion last summer, the president publicly mourned the loss of “the crust master’s” mysteriously addictive pies. And when the first family’s personal chef and pal, Sam Kass, left in December, Michelle Obama heaped praise on Kass’s “extraordinary legacy of progress” in an official White House statement.

But the recent exit of head florist Laura Dowling, who’d been in the job since 2009, has been a much quieter affair. So hush hush, in fact, that most outside of 1600 Penn knew nothing about it. There’s still no official comment on why Dowling is no longer at the White House, but according to a source with close ties to current residence staffers, she was escorted from the building on Friday Feb. 13.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-mystery-florist-said-to-have-been-escorted-off-grounds/ar-AA9UK58?ocid=mailsignout

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. She ruined a Valentine's Day Surprise!!!!

Emperor Obama and Lady McMichelle are ANGRY!!!!

(((((Channeling Obama-hater nonsense))))

[MineralMan]

2. Why would this even be news?

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Flower Gate!

The media needs a new scandal. They need a new outrage!

[Politicalboi]

4. So how long will it take Congress to

Appoint another head floral designer.

[closeupready]

5. As a gay man, I think Sam Kass is HOT. There. I said it.

[PoliticAverse]

8. Alex Wagner apparently thought so too...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/31/alex-wagner-married-msnbc-sam-kass-obama_n_5743962.html

[closeupready]

9. Lucky duck, lol.

[PoliticAverse]

6. Washington Post followup article...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2015/03/24/war-of-the-roses-former-white-house-floral-designers-look-clashed-with-first-ladys/

[TwilightGardener]

10. Escorted off the grounds? The WaPo article didn't say she stole silverware

or gossiped about the family, for chrissakes. It said Michelle had a change in taste for floral design. If it's true that this woman was treated this way, after six years of service, then somebody at the White House is utterly classless and she is owed an apology.