Thursday, June 12, 2003

Pork Barrel Politics

Fourteen House Members -- male and female, big and small, liberal and conservative -- stuck in an elevator for a half-hour and forced to learn how to get along. . . . Architect of the Capitol spokeswoman Eva Malecki said the elevator got stuck because it was 'overloaded,' as the 15 (sic) occupants of the elevator apparently exceeded the 3,000-pound weight limit. (From Drudge Report; warning: nondurable link)

That's 214.3 pounds per lawmaker. The Roll Call story, a snippet of which you can see here, says 14 were in the elevator, so Drudge must have just made a minor typo.

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