If you're a long time blog-reader of mine you've probably picked up on the idea that I'm fairly interested in politics. If not I'll just lay it out there for you: I'm a political science major, president of the Coe Democrats and spent my summer working on campaigns.My sophomore year this interest led me to an internship in the U.S. Senate in Washington DC through Coe's Washington Term. This is a whole other blog in itself, but the one thing that is relevant is the evening I went to a showing of the Capitol Steps. The Capitol Steps is a group of former Congress staffers who got fed up with the day-to-day business of Washington and quit their jobs to form a satirical group to mock the very establishment they worked for. Needless to say, the fusion of political humor and satirical versions of Sir Mixalot (I like tax cuts and I cannot lie) had me hooked.
After loving this show in DC I knew I had to find a way to share it with everybody at Coe. It took two years and cooperation among four or five different student groups to muster up the support, planning and most importantly, funding. Finally, last Tuesday at 8:00 in our Sinclair Auditorium the Capitol Steps took the stage at Coe College. I got to (or had to) introduce the group and it was probably the most nervous I've been about something in a long time. There were over a thousand people in the house and I had to go out and read some corny jokes and thank all the sponsors. I managed to get through it without fumbling or tripping on the stairs, so I think I'm going to consider my part a success (or at least not a failure!)
And probably the best part was that my parents came and took me out for dinner afterwards... food again!
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