by Karl Kurtz
During the Halloween season, the relatively new Hawaii House Blog from the majority office of the House of Representatives is carrying a series of capitol ghost stories that have been collected from members and staff of the Hawaii Legislature. Of the five that have been posted so far, the one I like the best is about the Hawaiian spirit with no feet floating through the air and intruding on the office of a senator who was napping in her office.
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NCSL has its own Halloween tradition. For the last 12 years we have had a potluck lunch Chili Cookoff and costume contest in which prizes are given for the best red, green and white chili and the best individual and group costumes. In a blind taste testing by three judges, Sharon Randall and Leann Stelzer, both editors in our communications department, won the white and red categories. Our executive director, Bill Pound, won the green chili category. (I swear, it really is a blind test!) The fact that Bill's was the only green chili entered this year doesn't detract from his win: he has won this category every year in which he has entered. His chili is that good. Like a strong incumbent in a legislative election, maybe he has scared off the competition.
Our health care program won the group costume contest, appearing as drug-resistant staph (staff--get it?).
[Photo by moorz8r courtesy of Flickr.]
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