As our board meeting started, I shuttled back and forth between the two rooms to make sure the timing of the governor's entrance came at the right moment. After getting the nod, I went back to let his staff know the board was ready for the governor.
I entered the room and the governor was in the middle of a discussion with the others in the room. Politely waiting for a break in the talk so I could let them all know we were ready, I was startled when the governor looked at me and asked, "Do YOU know?"
"Excuse me?" I asked.
"Do you know what Opes Dei is?" he repeated.
It sounds like something out of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, but rather than risk making a fool, I simply said,
"Sorry Governor, I was raised a good Protestant."
