[Rebelbase]

"If these legislators and staff had a couple of beers with their late night pizza, so what?"

Agreed.

[akorahil]

I have not seen the piece, but this line makes me think it more as just "a beer with pizza"
The station taped someone carrying a cooler into the office of Senate Majority Whip Linda Higgins
BTW-I agree that if it was caught with a legislator having a *gasp* beer with the staff after session, it should be a non event. One beer with the staff does not a travesty become. A cooler however...

[Terriergal]

"If these legislators and staff had a couple of beers with their late night pizza, so what?" Agreed.

You obviously didn't see the story. It wasn't just 'having a beer with pizza' - it was much more than that. Gifts of alcohol are illegal from lobbyists to lawmakers. And that is what was happening. Large coolers full. And they'd complain nothing was getting done. Some of the lawmakers sat in their offices and chummed around with lobbyists and drank and were absent from things they were supposed to be voting on.