From the Wool-sack
| Citation | Vol. 7 No. 6 Pg. 961 |
| Pages | 961 |
| Publication year | 1978 |
1978, June, Pg. 961. From the Wool-Sack
Some months ago in this column there was a discussion of one of Colorado's District Attorney's practice of furnishing free lunches to himself, members of his staff and citizens at large. That column was pejorative in tone since the writer did not altogether approve of this practice. Recent disclosures in the Rocky Mountain News about how the Pueblo District Attorney runs his office suggest, however, that my concern about free lunches for a few is trivial compared with the Pueblo District Attorney's practices. Since not all my readers read the Rocky Mountain News let me recount a little of how that District Attorney runs his office. An understanding of this will give us all insight into why some lawyers like being District Attorneys.
At the outset we should take note of the fact that District Attorneys do not like their jobs because of the money---the Pueblo District Attorney is paid less than $40,000 a year. It is also not the free lunches since regular readers of my column have been instructed in the art of obtaining free lunches without being put to the trouble of a costly political campaign. If not for full pockets or full stomachs, why be a District Attorney you ask? The answer is power. People who have power have more fun. Thus, on April 15, when you and I were worrying about our income tax and how we'd pay it (one of the least powerful positions in which a person ever finds himself), the Pueblo District Attorney was causing the neighborhood clinics of the Pueblo neighborhood health centers to be raided and their records seized. Probate lawyers and the like may think that seizing records in neighborhood health centers is not exciting stuff. They are wrong. Done right, a health center raid can be as much fun as running a grand jury. The first rule, even if the health center is not occupied because it is a weekend, is take it by surprise---don't go in by the door.
Being well versed in the art of how to make dull raids exciting, the District Attorney's agents broke a large plate glass window next to the street entrance to the building and then used that window as a door to complete the raid instead of using the door with which the building was supplied by the builder. (Health...
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