Makes-you-wonder-department: Rep. Jim Wilson, Capitol M’s go-to for many things humorous, has struck again. He threatened recently to filibuster bills in the House until he got enough bids for three bags of flour donated by the Colorado Wheat Growers Association earlier in the week.

The threat worked. Lawmakers, eager to get out for the three-day Presidents’ holiday weekend, lined up to put in their bids for the flour (it’s good flour. What can I say?).

The winners were then picked by the youngest daughter of House Republican leader Patrick Neville of Castle Rock, and that’s where things got hinky. The three winners – Reps. Leslie Herod of Denver, Jonathan Singer of Longmont and Dan Pabon of Denver – are all Democrats.

Capitol M pondered whether Rep. Neville has a closet Democrat in his house. As it turns out, he said he wonders about that himself. “Not acceptable,” he joked.

This week, we’re seeing stars!  “I told my kids I don’t have anything to lose. I’m going to speak my heart.” That’s from Democratic Rep. Janet Buckner of Aurora, whose remarks in the House on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day sparked a viral video that has now garnered more than 3.4 million hits on Facebook, 1,200 comments and more than 40,000 shares. I’d be willing to bet that’s a record for a Colorado lawmaker, although I’m open to hearing if someone else has done that well.

Buckner talked about how she never learned to swim because of discrimination she faced as a child. It pays to speak from the heart. The comments are worth reading, if only to point out that some people still have a long way to go.

You never know who’s watching: Tuesday, Sen. Andy Kerr’s multi-year effort to persuade the General Assembly to allow cyclists the “Idaho stop” made it out of the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee. Kerr, a Lakewood Democrat who is an avid cyclist, is known for riding his bike to work almost every day during the session.

Capitol M saw Kerr pedaling along 14th Avenue in Denver just a few blocks away from the Capitol Wednesday morning and noticed he does not plan to jump the gun and start using the Idaho stop. He properly halted at stop signs and a red light at 14th and Bannock. I’m sure he didn’t know I was watching, as I was several cars behind. Glad you behaved.

That was fun…not: On Tuesday, Gov. John Hickenlooper’s spox, Jacque Montgomery, thought it would be fun to hand out candy hearts to the press corps gathered for the Guv’s Tuesday presser. The idea was that we would take out a heart and use whatever was written on it as an intro to the question. Nobody did that.

Capitol M forgot just how rock hard those stupid hearts can be, and bit into one. Big mistake. I cracked a filling. So off to the dentist.

You have to know one thing about my awesome dentist, Mitch Williams. He’s very active in the dental association, went to high school with Cory Gardner’s wife, Jaime, and one of his frat brothers is part of the state patrol duty at the Capitol. He.is.a.political.animal. Loves talking state politics, so a trip to the dentist is more fun than you might expect.

I told him how I cracked the filling, and he joked that the candy hearts must have been a holdover from the Lamm administration. (They weren’t, Montgomery insists.)

There is a silver (amalgam) lining to the story: when he drilled out the filling, he found a cavity that hadn’t shown up on the x-ray. He said that if the cavity had gone on for a while, I might have lost the tooth. Unfortunately, the filling could not be saved and I’m up for a crown in the next few weeks or so. But I get to keep the tooth, so there’s that.

Capitol M plans to thank Montgomery as soon as the anesthesia wears off.