In hopes of killing Monday afternoon boredom I visited The Denver Post’s Web site for some local news. To my surprise the Colorado Senate’s Assistant Minority Leader Ken Gordon was the headlining news. My guess would have been the third-grade field trip to the Capitol.
Apparently Democrat Gordon works at the Capitol and instead of using the death box, also known as the elevator, he walks up and down the windy staircase that totals six flights. Gordon had decided to make lemonade out of lemons. When faced with the archaic and shoddy elevator Gordon decided to use the stairs. To any American this would have been logical but there was an ulterior reason.
Training was the real reason.
Yes my friends, a public official is exercising his right to be healthy. Well, sort of.
Gordon and his son are planning on navigating the steep and narrow trails of Mount Blanc. For people that don’t know where this mountain is go look at a map of Europe.
Not only is it a sad thing that The Denver Post decided to report on this (not that my critique of it is anything but noteworthy) but that in a middle of a stagnant economy and one where there were severe cuts Gordon is broadcasting his trip.
Not that there is anything wrong with going abroad, but this little trip leads me to believe that public officials are getting paid rather well or that they secretly receive portions of the Colorado Lottery. Think about it – the commercials say proceeds go to the state of Colorado, and what do you think of when you think of the state of Colorado? Not the mountains my friends, not the mountains.
I am not knocking going to Europe and going down and up a mountain for the purposes of recreation. Nor am I against exercising on a staircase built for Gordon and company. But in reality people want to know that their public officials are getting paid enough money to do their job and take trips to Oklahoma.
Why is this important? Because then we know our government figureheads are in the same tug boat we are, one that is powered by oars and a tobacco addicted monkey. After all, if we can’t relate to Arnold Schwarzenegger and his Humvee, we need the next best thing.
Yes Gordon, we understand that you may not have the money to join a gym and that exercising on the Capitol’s staircase is ingenious, but next time The Denver Post asks you about your vacation time lie and say you’re going to the Grizzly Rose. We Coloradans will love you for living the same empty, alcoholic lives so many college students aspire to.
Or you can just take us with you and we’ll call it even.
