Car crash, ticket contribute to Katherine Harris' shoe delivery scene

RAW STORY
Published: Monday June 19, 2006

A comedy of errors which found one staffer involved in a rear end collision and another running through the corridors of power in the US Capitol were part of a scene involving the delivery of shoes from a shoe shine stand to Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL), today's issue of ROLL CALL reports.

The staffer was driving Rep. Harris' BMW convertible when he picked up the staffer who had obtained the shoes inside the Capitol. Follwing the pick-up, the car was rear-ended and Rep. Harris staff member was ticketed for "distracted driving."

The shoes eventually were delivered to Rep. Harris. Excerpts from the registration-restricted article follow.

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Just when you thought it couldn’t get any crazier for Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) and Co., it has. Her latest shoeless episode, the one last week in which a Prince Charming-like intern was spotted hurriedly delivering a pair of heels to the Congresswoman off the House floor, has a couple of more bizarre twists to it. A flurry of mishaps, essentially, that involved a shoeshine stand and a car wreck.

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“What kind of shoes?” the employee asked. “Women’s shoes,” the young man replied, provoking a quizzical look from the woman working the shoeshine stand. The aide explained he was looking for a pair of shoes belonging to “Congresswoman Katherine Harris,” our informant said.

He took the shoes and rushed toward the Capitol, where, along the way, he was spotted by a reporter for the Kansas City Star who reported on the newspaper’s Web log that he saw a “strapping young man” hurrying across the Capitol complex “holding a stylish pair of mid-heel blue-and-white ladies’ shoes.”

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A source tells HOH that while the shoe carrier was inside the Capitol, another Harris aide, a staff assistant, was driving the Congresswoman’s brown convertible BMW over to the Capitol to pick up the tow-headed shoe carrier. And, of course, the staff assistant got rear-ended on the way over to the House.

As if that weren’t enough, after he picked up the shoe carrier, who we are told is an intern, the aide who was driving got pulled over by a Capitol Police officer and was given a $40 ticket for “distracted driving.”