Interactions with Politicans ?

[Calthrina950]

I've had two encounters with a federal politician, and one encounter with local politicians. I've described elsewhere how I checked out my own Representative, Lamborn, at my job a few months ago. Another encounter I had-although it was from a distance-was with John Hickenlooper. I was at PPCC (the community college I went to before transferring to UCCS) one day, sitting at my table and idling away on my laptop between classes. While I was sitting there, a man came out of a hallway, talking to his companion, and they headed down the stairs. That man was Hickenlooper, who was still Governor at the time. I looked his way, shocked that it was him, and then returned to my work once he had passed. We didn't have any kind of direct interaction, though he did glance my way. I assume Hickenlooper was at PPCC that day attending some conference or roundtable discussion.

The encounter that I had with local politicians was while I was interning at Sen. Bennet's office in Colorado Springs. One day, I went to an event with the District Director of that office. That event was a community seminar concerning legislation to provide small business loans to the economically distressed neighborhoods of Aurora and South Colorado Springs. The bill was sponsored by former State Sen. Mike Merrifield, his successor, then State Rep. Pete Lee, and State Sen. Bob Gardner. Merrifield and Lee are Democrats, each representing in turn the state senate district encompassing Manitou Springs and Old Colorado City, while Gardner is a Republican; his district is located in Eastern Colorado Springs.

As the Director and I were coming into the building, we ran into Gardner. She introduced him to me, but he barely acknowledged me and didn't thank me or say anything else when I held the door for him and the Director. Thus, I have a negative opinion of him, one that I will never shake off. At the event, he, Merrifield, and Lee spoke about the loan bill, which the three of them had sponsored. The bill had passed the state legislature the month or two before, and had been signed into law by Hickenlooper. Also in attendance at the event was El Paso County Commissioner Longinos Gonzalez Jr., also a Republican; he came through my row...and wasn't the politest person, to put it mildly. Lee later stopped by the Senator's office, but didn't say anything to us interns-he didn't even notice we were there-and left when his business was done.

So as you can see, my encounters with politicians haven't gone over too well. It's saddening for me, and it's why I'm not going to be the one to attend political rallies or anything like it in the future.

[Calthrina950]

My grandmother’s sister once saw JFK in a phone booth in Charleston WV, 1960. He was itching himself , and had his hand down his pants.

bruh

Knowing how Kennedy was, are were sure that he wasn't with some woman? I have the book "Killing Kennedy", which was written by Bill O'Reilly, and it goes into great detail about Kennedy's affairs with women. It's astonishing how deferential the press used to be to Presidents, with regards to covering their personal lives. They hid Kennedy's affairs during his lifetime, just like they hid Franklin Roosevelt's polio during his lifetime.

Of course, I'm assuming Chairman Sanchez is being sarcastic here.