{"id":10698,"date":"2009-09-14T07:41:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T15:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10698"},"modified":"2009-09-14T07:41:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T15:41:57","slug":"more-lobbyist-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10698","title":{"rendered":"More Lobbyist Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Skelton writes<\/a>: The Legislature had just wrapped up its annual session when a top aide invited me to a post-adjournment party across the street from the Capitol. I went.<\/p>\n

Entering the hotel suite, I saw an open bedroom door. And sitting on the bed was an attractive female lobbyist wearing only black panties. Two or three male legislators stood around grinning, chortling.<\/p>\n

A little embarrassed, I hurried past to the main party group. The bedroom door soon closed. And for the next 45 minutes or so, one legislator after another entered or left the room.<\/p>\n

The lobbyist had just won passage of a major bill, and I assumed she was celebrating by entertaining helpful lawmakers.<\/p>\n

No, this was not early Saturday after the tortured conclusion of this year’s regular session. It was 46 years ago, not long after I had begun covering the Legislature for a wire service.<\/p>\n

And the point is that lobbyist-provided sex — supplied directly or indirectly by some glorified pimp — is nothing new in the California Legislature or any democratic body, dating back centuries.<\/p>\n

"I can tell whether a guy wants money, a girl or a baked potato," Artie Samish, legendary Sacramento lobbyist of the mid-20th century, used to boast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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