SAFER Executive Director Mason Tvert had a column in today's Rocky Mountain News that turns a critical eye to random student drug testing programs being pushed by the Drug Czar's Office and the U.S. Dept. of Education.

Mason attended the ONDCP/DOE press conference in Denver, where he managed to get this sweet photo taken with Deputy Drug Czarina Bertha Madras. 

Doesn't she look thrilled to be there?!

The photo also appeared smack dab in the middle of the FRONT page of the Denver Daily News, which ran a good article on the event that included Tvert's perspective on the pitfalls of random student drug testing. An interview with him was also included in the local NBC affiliate's story.

Principal Eloy Chavez knows when kids come to his school, it's already been a long road. He calls the ACE Community Challenge Charter School a last stop for teens trying to get out of drugs or gangs.

"We work with high-risk students, kids who have been throwaways, kids who maybe have not attended school for maybe one or two years," said Chavez.

Probably not, seeing as the Republican presidential candidate's personal wealth is largely the result of his wife Cindy's beer-selling enterprise. But check out his little slip-up during a speech the other day:

Perhaps he had been drinking at the time...