July 24, 2009 08:25 PM UTC

Perlmutter stands up to tyranny, votes against honoring LA Lakers

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• by: BobMoore

Bravo to Rep. Ed Perlmutter, who stared evil in the eye and cast one of eight dissenting votes Thursday on a resolution honoring the Los Angeles Lakers for their recent NBA championship.

The Lakers’ path to victory ran through Denver, and they ended the Nuggets’ most sucessful season since entering the NBA. Kobe and Co. ousted the Nuggets four games to two in the Western Conference finals.

“I do applaud the Lakers’ success but I am a Coloradan through and through and my heart is with the Nuggets, so I had to vote no,” Perlmutter said in a statement.

Put it this way: Rep. Perlmutter signaled the Lakers were No. 1; he just used a different finger than most other House members.

He was the only member of Colorado’s House delegation to vote properly on the legislation, HR 566, which passed the House by a vote of 413-8. The companion Senate legislation was approved by the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body by unanimous consent last month.

Basketball fans will recall that the Lakers lost to the Celtics in the 2008 NBA Finals. However, the resolution contains this bit of hyperventilating:

“(T)he Lakers, in winning their 15th NBA World Championship, capped a remarkable, unprecedented single-season turnaround that captivated basketball fans across America and around the world.”

Going from second to first in a single season. You don’t see that very often in the sports world.

More at my Coloradoan blog: http://tr.im/tLZg