I assure you, we haven’t blocked access

Reporter: “This building has blocked access to the elevator.”

Building owner: “I assure you, we haven’t blocked access to upper floors.”

Technically speaking, the stairs are available (for those who can use them), but that doesn’t address the question of the elevator.

Also, I have to wonder how much of the “banned words in budget requests” story started as “how to keep controversial items under the radar so that the short-sighted appointee holding the purse strings doesn’t have an excuse to deny your budget request.”