Governor Chris Gregoire wasn’t denied entrance in a one-time appearance at Olympia bar Hannah’s last weekend. In fact, says owner Todd Ruzicka, “the governor shows up once a year.” Gregoire’s office confirms that every year, she serves food down at Lakefair, then takes accompanying staff over to the sports bar for post-festivity boozing. But this year a bouncer committed to keeping his job denied the guv entrance. Bar tenders told him “no ID, no entry,” Ruzicka says. He adds that the bouncer “Justin” got the job a week before demanding Gregoire prove her right to consume alcohol. He’s laying low now.Over the 12 year life of his bar, Ruzicka’s seen his share of Olympia politicos. So how does Gregoire’s once-a-year party compare to previous heads of state? Ruzicka says Gary Locke never crossed his threshold. But Mike Lowry was a year-round regular. “We had to cut him off on a couple of occasions. He can drink.”The incident inspired Daily Weekly to do some deep digging into Gregoire’s entrance denial past. Turns out she has a long history of trying to pull one over on attentive bouncers. Some highlights: * At age five, a precocious young Gregoire is denied access to the kindergarten bathroom after a hall monitor asks for a pass, which she fails to produce. Gregoire explains she left it in her lunch box.* Fun Forest Tornado operators deny the first-grade Gregoire entrance for failing to provide evidence that she is taller than a cartoon beaver.* In a previous wallet-forgetting incident, Gregoire, at 19, is barred from the then-risque film version of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?.* Gregoire is asked to leave the express checkout line at a University District grocery store in 1967 when a clerk informs her that even though toothpaste is on a three-for-one special, the tubes count as separate items and she has exceeded the limit.* April 26, 1977, Gregoire isn’t allowed past the red rope for Studio 54’s opening night when, recently married, she becomes the first woman in history to refuse to make out with Mick Jagger.
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