By Andrew Zajac
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, President Obama's choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, cuts a figure of no-nonsense, Midwestern rectitude.
Middle of the road, plain-spoken, competent. Yeah, her husband likes rock, Gary Sebelius.doc but he's a federal magistrate, so how wild is he going to get?
If there is a provocateur gene in the family, it may have gone to son John, who caused a stir last year when he began marketing "Don't Drop the Soap", a prison board game he created, out of the governor's mansion.
Retailing for $34.99, 'Soap' makes up with heavy-handedness what it lacks in imagination, offering players the chance to "escape prison riots in The Yard, slip glass into a mob boss' lasagna in the Cafeteria, steal painkillers from the nurse's desk in the Infirmary, avoid being cornered by the Aryans in the Shower Room, fight off Latin Kings in Gang War, and try not to smoke your entire stash in The Hole..."
The younger Sebelius originally set up a corporation, took out a loan for it and peddled the game from the Sunflower State's executive mansion. But his company, Gillius Inc., now lists an address in Lawrence, Kansas.
A conservative state lawmaker last year worked himself into a lather over 'Soap', both for its themes and the address of its creator, but apparently he bathed alone.
A column in the L.A. Times last year included 'Soap' in a harsh critique of pop culture's light-hearted treatment of prison rape.
Comments
One word of advice to the Swamp...watch your spelling. provacateur will only make "change you can believe in" disregard the entire message.
Posted by: bill r. | March 3, 2009 1:46 PM
HOw old is this moron? I tell you what -- he thinks it's so funny. Let's give him a cell.
Posted by: Liz | March 3, 2009 2:01 PM
Running a private, for-profit business out of the governor's taxpayer-paid mansion....
Even a spelling-challenged Tribune reporter ought to see the potential law violations there. And maybe ask a few questions.
Posted by: Change You Can Believe In | March 3, 2009 3:39 PM
I told ya!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: bill r. | March 3, 2009 4:11 PM
I have major schoolmarm crush on teh Sebelius.
Posted by: Dumples | March 3, 2009 5:08 PM