Today, you can get a feel for one legislator's very real life at noon, when Representative Wes McKinley, who represents the southeastern corner of the state, will present a concert of cowboy music in the Capitol rotunda. When he's not making laws here in Denver, McKinley is often riding the range, running a working ranch and taking dudes out on trail rides. But his resume doesn't end there. McKinley has also been a teacher, foster father and, most infamously, the foreman of Colorado's first-ever special grand jury, convened to consider what the jurors determined was an "ongoing criminal enterprise" at Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant -- right before the Department of Justice gagged the whole bunch.
But guitar-toting McKinley should have no problem sounding off today. Ride 'em, cowboy.
