Posted on 02/28/2015 12:41:33 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
North Carolina’s State Ethics Committee has just opened up a major problem for their state — they just made it legal for lobbying firms to purchase prostitutes to service politicians. The Committee’s determination that sex had no value and that sex between a lobbyist and politician was nothing to report or in any way questionable means that a major loophole has opened up for lobbying firms. Now lobbying firms can hire people with the explicit goal to seduce and fornicate with politicians in order to garner favor.
In other terms, lobbying firms can hire people who can offer sexual services for politicians, and they don’t even need to register. now, before it is said that it is being misinterpreted, here is the actual letter from the Ethics Committee, titled “Sexual Favors or Sexual Acts as a Gift or ‘Thing of Value.'” In it, they declared that these relations have no monetary value, so do not need to be reported. In addition, they declared that if the person is not registered as a lobbyist, there was never any point of concern, even if the service was paid for by a third-party. In other words, lobbyists can hire people expressly for a politician to use in a carnal manner, even if the politician asks for or otherwise indicates their desire for such a service.
Even more disturbing are the long-term implications. Let us say a politician does partake, yet the person who paid for the night of temptation was a less than honest broker. A few hidden cameras, some veiled threat that did not cross the line into blackmail territory, a night of infidelity could put a politician into a less honorable group’s pocket without major cost, and all now rendered perfectly legal by the Ethics Committee of North Carolina.
Lobbying is a practice which needs to end for the good of the republic. When our founders agreed that the people have the right to redress grievances and to petition the government, that did not mean corporations or trade groups being granted superior access to the people themselves. Money is not speech, liberty is not anarchy — freedom for all, not just for the elite.
It’s not a legitimate donation. Does anyone actually report such services now under campaign filing?
I don’t understand the logic. If they are paying for it, it has a value.
But it’s still against the law.
Sounds like ancient Rome. No shame. Well, the taxpayers aren’t whores, but they’re certainly being treated like them, being screwed daily by our politicians. When will this madness all end? It won’t be pretty when it does.
Stupidy always contradicts itself.
We always knew politicians were mostly prostituting themselves, glad they finally admitted it...
“The Committee’s determination that sex had no value”
Then why am I paying so much for porn!!????!!
Wait, did I say that out loud?
Laws for the subjects and privileges for the rulers all decided upon by the rulers.
Would a better title be 'North Carolina Legalizes Politicians as Prostitutes.'
Is that closer to the truth since some take money for favors?
Just for laughs, who's on the State Ethics Committee?
Between ISIS and North Carolina politics it seems utter shamelessness is the theme of the day.
[sigh]
Don’t forget the best part, they can use the hooker to obtain compromising photos to blackmail the politicians with, and it’s now legal!
This has been going on forever. Let’s put it this was; a young attractive woman, fresh out of college, is hired as a lobbyist. Her job is take out legislators, have dinner and schmooze with them to try to get bills for her company’s clients passed. She is informed that if Senator X, head of the relevant committee agrees to support your bill, she will get a $100,000 bonus. Now do you think if she sleeps with the old dude he’s more likely to vote for it? He doesn’t have to know she’s getting a bonus, and there’s maybe no explicit quid pro quo. He may even think she’s sleeping with him because he’s so charming, and they are consenting adults. It’s not that these lobbying firms are hiring prostitutes, it’s that a lot of women will become one if the money is big enough.
“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.:
— Ronald Reagan
At least the prostitutes actually provide a service.
Pharmaceutical reps.
‘Nuff said.
Now see, how can anyone say their services have no value?!
Elect lawmakers who aren’t moral, and no law will restrain them.
More better.
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