Drew C....K street big shot?

Yes my office is on K street in the Golden Triangle coalition, but I am far from a big shot.

I woke up this morning, not having a clue where I was. I have a huge bay window and I could see that it was foggy and hazy, and to my dismay, it was not a cool refreshing fog like we have in Denver. It was instead, a warm, smothering and almost suffocating fog and at 7 48 am (That would be 548 Mountain Standard time, which also makes it the earliest I have ever woken up in my life) it was already in the 70s. Not cool is what I said to myself, and then chuckled a little about how clever I was, and then almost got ran over by a Mercedes Benz. People who drive Mercedes in this town are crazy, they run red lights, don't signal, and don't slow down for peds. The cross walks are not clearly marked out here and some corners don't have walk signals.

I thought that in a city filled with the best lawyers in the world, there would be some pedestrian safety precautions.


I stroll down K street and my office building is across the street from where I thought it was, but any how the security guard somehow already knows I'm an intern, and after singing in, I head to the top floor for orientation.

I am pleased that there are 12 other young interns who are all fairly friendly, and happy that the Legislative and Political Action department (my department) gets the top floor and amazing offices. Everyone I work with are nice, helpful, and intelligent.

I am going to like my job.


I take my first subway ride on the Metro and it was quite the experience. They are nothing like the Light Rail of Denver because they are older and super noisy. You can't hear a thing and they shake like this bum that is always standing by Old Green George. However, there is no "Gap" to "mind" (sorry Marissa). I had to travel all the way across the District to target for some groceries . I hate target (sorry sisters) but for now it's the only place I have found.


Day two starts tomorrow and I look forward to the weekend (that'll never change).



Peace,



Drew C in DC

D.C. hits the streets in DC

I woke up early this morning in an extremely foul mood. I was not looking forward to leaving the beautiful state of Colorado today. I woke up, packed, ate my last home cooked breakfast and headed to DIA. The car ride was quiet, i didn't say much. I was nervous and honestly I didn't want to go. I didn't get any goodbyes. And the one that I did manage to get wasn't a good one, it was kinda like a badbye or something. My flight got delayed for over an hour because United freaks out about oil leaking engines or something.
My flight sucked too. My seat wouldn't recline and I got the middle seat, and as everyone should know, I HATE the middle seat. The guy next to me took his smelly shoes off and then snored the entire flight until we hit some serious turbulence and then he woke up acting like we were all going to die, grabbing on to my armrest and nearly knocking my laptop off of the fold out tray.


I was pissed.


After a long wait for my stupid luggage, I instantly forgot about everything when I stepped out of the airport doors.


The sun was shining in full force on our nation's capital and the air was warm and humid. Everything was immediately washed in the glow of the D.C. sun. And the sun is different here. It's soft and all of the monuments just soak it up.

My cabbie talked to me about a whole lot of stuff, I think, I don't really talk very good cabbi yet. Actually fuck it, I'm never going to because I'm going to walk everywhere.
I checked into my apartment, and they def over hyped this place to me on the phone. Someone owes me an apology. Any how, I unpacked, and took a stroll out the door, into the streets of my new temporary home town. The White House is just a few blocks from my apartment and there's a giant statue in a small park of General George Washington, which is streaked that beautiful statue of Liberty green from decades upon decades of D.C. rain and oxidation.


I found a T.G.I. Fridays near my house (only to miss the McFadden's right across the street from my place) and had a giant Miller Light and a JD burger.

I forgot about the lack of goodbyes and the reluctance to come to D.C.

Tomorrow is a new day and I start a new life tomorrow. I know not a single soul out here, but by tomorrow, that will be a totally different story.



Wish me luck and stay tunned.



Patriotically,




Drew C of the District

Drew C: Published and Respected authority.

HAHA not really. Well I am published now.


Check it out yo




Letter to the Rocky Mountain News concerning the Right-to-Work for le$$ ballot initiative HERE


A letter I wrote to the Northglenn Sentinel was also published . They didn't put up web version, but I'm sure if you try hard enough, you can find a hard copy somewhere.

Mark Penn update

I was right about Mark Penn being a douche bag after all! Down with Union Busters!!!!!


Change To Win blog blasting Mark Penn

TPM blog on Mark Penn getting hated on by everyone

Dear Rocky Mountain News

I wrote my first letter to the editor today.


If it gets published. I will post a link and I will also post links to any scathing republican letters written in response, and I will also post anything said by Johnathan Coor's in response (yes, that Coors, and yes, I did rip on him because he's a greedy bastard millionaire fuck). Wish me luck!


Also, check out my fellow blogger here

Washington DC for the summer?

I'm not going to lie,


I don't want to leave Colorado. I am getting a little nervous about my internship this summer in DC. I'm excited but I really don't like the idea of being away from Colorado, my friends, my family, my romance, my dogs and smelly gay cat, and all the fun everyone is going to be having this summer with out me. May be it's just cold feet or maybe pre-flight jitters. I mean, Marissa had them, and now she's in fucking England. Yes, fucking England. I got an email today, requesting about my availability for the summer program, and I have to admit, seeing it down on paper, made it seem like a really really long time.

OH well, I guess this is part of growing up.


I will do it if everything falls into place, like it has been.

I expect to learn a lot out there, meet a thousand new people, and return to Colorado being, perhaps 80 to 90% more of an eligible bachelor and at least 15-20% more suitable for marriage.



Oh, and a beard. No, I lied. I can not grow a beard.

Wait...What did I expect?

I found myself today, listening to John McCain (or as Tyler Borg and I like to refer to him as: Good Ol' Balls McCain) speaking about how lucky we are that we have NOT pulled our troops out of Iraq.
Video here At first I was like, a little shocked. I was because of this reason: This man is running for President. He is running for President in a nation where the majority of Americans feel and say that the Iraq war was a major mistake, most people want the troops home, and the popularity of the people who got us into war, are extremely low. I will now depart from the notion of whether or not I think the war is a good or bad idea, that should be obvious, but instead, I will focus on how this will be the downfall of Good Ol' Balls McCain.


In order for him to run a successful campaign, he is going to have to convince the American public that the Iraqi war is a GOOD idea, and that he was right all along in advocating its start.


I just don't think this is possible for the Republican party to pull off, there is too much public dissent and opposition, and the other two candidates in the race, are stomping him into the ground with their turn-out numbers, while running on a heavily anti- "100 years in Iraq" platform.


And if either of the Democratic candidates put two and two together, and link the Iraqi war WITH the failing economy, it will be lights out.

The Democratic candidate doesn't even have to show a strong correlation between the trillions of dollars spent over there, and the poor shape of the economy here, that candidate will just merely have to put the thoughts in our heads. It makes sense, it is provable to some extent, and the public is already heavily leaning in that direction.



Slam dunk anyone? No, I won't go that far.....yet


But just remember what I said Iraq War = Poor American economy and weak dollar