One of the hardest workers I’ve ever met
has gotten herself into trouble. Lori Saine, a Colorado State Representative,
was arrested for carrying a firearm through the TSA Checkpoint at Denver
International Airport. My guess? She has been carrying for so long she forgot
she had it.
Lori and I worked in car sales for the
same organization. She was a ferocious competitor and hated me for being just a
tad bit better. Later, I recommended her to be the manager of a used lot we opened
in Windsor, CO. She didn’t like me as a boss any better than as a co-worker.
Oh, well.
Across
the street was a radio station employing Dudley Brown, a controversial figure
in 2nd Amendment issues. They became acquainted.
With his encouragement and support she
entered politics.
I called her Sister Kink. The name had to
do with the way she sold cars. I know nothing, nor care, about her private
life. Her husband is an exceptional RV salesman. He endorsed her nickname when
he heard it.
We operated in Windsor out of a
tastefully and professionally remodeled gas station. Very attractive. In the
rear two drive in bays were retained. We kept high value vehicles in them at
night.
Once, after a vicious blizzard, the yokel we hired to plow the lot left
an eave high mound of plowed ice and snow blocking one bay and trapping a car.
Someone at another of our lots wanted the car and started raising hell. I
arrived to find Lori, all 5’ of her, attacking the mound with a snow shovel.
No. I put a stop to that immediately, and shut up those demanding the car in my
usual gentle and tactful way.
Left to her own devices without someone
(me, usually) monitoring, her ethics, those of a starving piranha, would cause
a lot of heat. Such is life in the car business.
As a manager, I cared about three things.
Can you do the job? Can you be relied upon to be there when the store is open?
Can you be trusted with money? Lori was a solid “YES”.
I wish her luck with her current problem.
13 comments:
The problem can be a career ender or it can go away. The fact that it didn't go away quietly suggests that she doesn't have the necessary stroke to keep it from being a career ender.
One more comment. She can behave like a hungry piraña but she can't bite everyone around her or they don't 'fix' the problem.
She is the type to have allies rather than friends.
Somebody has to put themselves in the crosshairs (potentially) to help you in that situation. Apparently nobody did and she went to jail. The situation is explainable. Nobody helped her explain... nobody owed her any favors.
TSA found a handgun?
That has to be a first. Those idiots couldn't find their assholes without a year of training first.
I'm sure you are right. I'm also sure her usual belligerent mouth didn't help.
What fun it is with them if you have a pacemaker. Assholes!
Ouch... And she's a Republican, so of course no help...
Not in solid blue Denver County.
She should ride it out. Accept she broke the law by mistake and ignore the liberal condemnations. Keep her job, her constituents will forgive her.
She most definitely isn't a quitter.
Oh shit. I did that once with a knife. Never did get it back. Dammit. At least I did not get arrested. Also got a wine opener seized once too. Oiks.
Once went through the hassle of checking a revolver. Got to the airport and hour early and needed the time. Locked the case in front of the TSA dude. Case went into my locked and checked bag. At my destination, found my revolver covered with smudges.
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