A little over an hour into the talk among five GOP contenders seeking an endorsement from the Portland alternative paper Willamette Week, Mark Callahan exploded at Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nigel Jaquiss for his notes during a long answer given by Jo-Rae Perkins, who was participating via conference call.

The dust-up was first reported by JimRomenesko.com.

"You want to talk about disrespect, I see what you’re writing down there," Callahan fumed. "You just wrote down 'blah, blah, blah, blah, blah' for everything that Jo-Rae said.

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