It's not the sex, it's the bedfellows
Sep. 14th, 2009 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumIf you haven't heard, a Calif. legislator embarrased himself by acting the peurile twit in front of a live mike, with locker room crudities about his misstresses. Since he was a "family values" Republican that's been getting all the press.
Me.. I don't care who he's sleeping with, so far as the sex goes. He's an adult (though it seems not so very grown up) and she is too. What seems to have been lost in the whole mess is who she was, and what she did.
She was (though I suspect not for much longer) a lobbyist. She lobbied on behalf of companies who had interests on which his committees sat. While he was seeing her they got a number of favorable laws passsed.
But it's worse than that. It was, by most reports, no secret that she and he were keeping company.
So what did they do... they made him the chair of the Rules Committee, with oversight on ethics.
For really disgusting, one of the few places actually reporting on this, is a PayDay Loans Place.
Me.. I don't care who he's sleeping with, so far as the sex goes. He's an adult (though it seems not so very grown up) and she is too. What seems to have been lost in the whole mess is who she was, and what she did.
She was (though I suspect not for much longer) a lobbyist. She lobbied on behalf of companies who had interests on which his committees sat. While he was seeing her they got a number of favorable laws passsed.
But it's worse than that. It was, by most reports, no secret that she and he were keeping company.
So what did they do... they made him the chair of the Rules Committee, with oversight on ethics.
For really disgusting, one of the few places actually reporting on this, is a PayDay Loans Place.
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Well, of course the payday loan place is concerned, Terry. How can an honest
loan sharkcash-flow specialist, who is up-front and above-board about hisviginterest rates make a profit when the electric utility rates are so high he can't keep the lights on, or the politicians are so dishonest you can't trust them to stay bought after you pay thebribecampaign contribution they demand?As Heinlein said repeatedly, an honest politician is one who stays bought. Mr. Orange County here was so crooked and stupid he couldn't even do that.