Can'thavenuthingood
02-10-2007, 02:52 PM
I didn't cut and paste this entire article only the part that really disturbed me. Devin Nunes should have put a period behind the word 'vote', instead he gave away a mindset. Without a doubt the highest bidder gets the vote.
Is this your guy?
Vick
February 11, 2007
Congress Finds Ways to Avoid Lobbyist Limits
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 — The 110th Congress opened with the passage of sweeping new rules intended to curb the influence of lobbyists by prohibiting them from treating lawmakers to meals, trips, stadium box seats or the discounted use of private jets.
But it did not take long for lawmakers to find ways to keep having lobbyist-financed fun...............
“I am not going to hide from the fact that we have to raise money,” said Representative Devin Nunes, a California Republican who has invited donors to his political action committee on a wine-tasting tour in June, modeled after the movie “Sideways.” “Only a moron would sell a vote for a $2,000 contribution,” Mr. Nunes said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/us/politics/11trips.html?ei=5094&en=e1bbc0cbbdc25f89&hp=&ex=1171170000&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print
Is this your guy?
Vick
February 11, 2007
Congress Finds Ways to Avoid Lobbyist Limits
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 — The 110th Congress opened with the passage of sweeping new rules intended to curb the influence of lobbyists by prohibiting them from treating lawmakers to meals, trips, stadium box seats or the discounted use of private jets.
But it did not take long for lawmakers to find ways to keep having lobbyist-financed fun...............
“I am not going to hide from the fact that we have to raise money,” said Representative Devin Nunes, a California Republican who has invited donors to his political action committee on a wine-tasting tour in June, modeled after the movie “Sideways.” “Only a moron would sell a vote for a $2,000 contribution,” Mr. Nunes said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/us/politics/11trips.html?ei=5094&en=e1bbc0cbbdc25f89&hp=&ex=1171170000&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print