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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Harry Hope" |
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02 Dec 2005 06:43:11 AM |
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Utah Republicans to 'date' lobbyists |
From UPI, 11/30/05:
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051130-040449-9018r
Utah Republicans to 'date' lobbyists
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 30 (UPI) --
Utah Republicans are at odds over a new fundraising scheme that allows
lobbyists to pay to meet state house members in what's being called a
"speed date."
Speed dating is a concept in which people pay to spend five minutes
apiece chatting one at a time with a series of people.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports the Utah House Republican Caucus has
organized a similar event on Jan. 5, but featuring Republican state
representatives and lobbyists.
Rep. Kory Holdaway called the event "absurd" and said "payment for
access" isn't the right way to go about raising cash.
The lobbyist payments would go to the party's state caucus.
Kat Dayton, the organizer of the event called it "a common-man
fundraiser for the common-man office."
House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Urquhart likes the idea and called it
"just an excuse to get together and have a good time."
Tony Musci of Common Cause, a politician watchdog group, called the
event "unseemly" but not surprising.
He said the set up may be different but called lobbyists paying for
access a "standard party fundraiser."
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Harry
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| User: "B.L. Z-Bub" |
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| Title: Re: LIBERALS ARE IGNORANT DUMMIES!! ==> Utah Republicans to 'date' lobbyists |
02 Dec 2005 01:24:27 PM |
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In article <sl41p19mb5dpjv3nil4255p8nivt4lg8tm@4ax.com>, Harry Hope
<rivrvu@IX.NETC0M.C0M> wrote:
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:43:11 GMT, Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com>
wrote:
From UPI, 11/30/05:
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051130-040449-9018r
Utah Republicans to 'date' lobbyists
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 30 (UPI) --
Utah Republicans are at odds over a new fundraising scheme that allows
lobbyists to pay to meet state house members in what's being called a------------
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Adam Smith's famous dictum: "People of the same
trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the
conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some
contrivance to raise prices."
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