Don't Ask This Senator a Question (video included)

From my experience interviewing U.S. senators, let me tell you how it works.

A group of six very large men are standing in a circle outside La. Tech's BioMed building with Louisiana Senator J. Bennett Johnston in the middle.

I come walking up the sidewalk.

When I'm 20 feet away, one big dude turns, holds up his left palm for me to stop. His right hand reaches inside the flap of his jacket, grasping something...ahem...

I hold up my green 4" X 6" Shreveport Times press card.

The big dude takes his hand out of his jacket and approaches me.

"I'm Dadsdream. Would you ask the senator if he'd like to comment to the readers of the Shreveport Times?"

Big dude nods. Another big dude takes his place watching me while he relays my message to the senator's aide.

The senator's aide waits for the senator to finish doing whatever he's doing, then he asks the senator if he'll see me.

The circle opens and a smiliing Louisiana Senator J. Bennett Johnston motions that it's OK.

The orginial big dude comes back and gives me a quick pat down while the other big dude watches.

The two big dudes then escort me to J. Bennett's inner circle.

Now, if I had come up there yelling and screaming, what do you think would have happened to me?