Aikshrees Kanduraja

Maybe like 91, 92%.

I definitely wake up every morning excited to be Pablo Manriquez.

Ego.

It's what makes you pick up a box of stolen art supplies and think, without any experience, I will be a transformational force in the U.S.

Capitol.

But it's also ego that propels you to the front of a press conference with your painting under your arm and sends you crashing back to Earth.

The Potomac is lousy with wax and feathers.

A couple hours after we talk, Pablo sends me a note.

He's back in the capital.

He says for the first time, he feels small in this place that once made him feel big.

The next day, he sends me another note.

He sounds like himself again.

He figured it out.

He's launching his campaign to run for standing committee.

But luckily, I'm not eligible to run for the Standing Committee for at least another year, if not two.

So I decided that while I can't be on the ballot until probably 2028, I am going to start campaigning on Monday.

So I registered the domain dailypressgallery.com and I started writing an agenda.

Part of my agenda is, of course, to repeal the prohibition that they put on journalist art in the Capitol.

You never hear about Icarus the next day.

Did you know he just made some small adjustments to his wings and headed right back for the sun?