Delivering bills via an outside ledgeSourced
The governor locked his office and left.
A senator came in through the window.
In Oregon in 1913, Governor Oswald West shut his office to avoid receiving bills. Senate president Daniel Malarkey and a clerk crawled along an exterior ledge from a nearby window, entered an unlocked one and put 30 bills on his desk, starting the review clock.
A political standoff
found a literal side entrance.
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