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.
Time to run for office? LOL
North Carolina only now legalized lobbyists?
Because there is an established market price for the illegal service, wouldn't it make more sense to recognize that and require the politicians to report it?
That way even if a politician wasn't prosecuted for a crime, he or she could still be penalized for failure to disclose. Besides no matter how it is disguised, it is still a bribe which this reporting is designed to limit.
He’s going to change the way he votes just for one role in the hay? He probably could get some kind of money from one or both sides to vote. It’s not like politicians aren’t sleeping around all the time anyway. Why change a vote over one more throw?
Pornohraphy is not sex.
Well, the pols screw us taxpayers all the time, and we don’t have to list it as income. . . . (grin)
Never underestimate the power of lechery. Of course the campaign contributions are a given too. Just a way to sweeten the pot, so to speak.
They’re already legal to be poli...oh, wait. Never mind.
Because somebody gets lots of nice incriminating pics!
But for us it’s negative income, so the relevant question is where’s our write off?!
It was not legal but it is said that paying ladies was a favorite Enron ploy.
I am all for the politicians screwing prostitutes. Much better than their screwing us.
Over 20 years ago I saw whore houses running legally in NC advertising on billboards . Something I had never seen before.
The whore takes the politicians money, the politician pays her with our money.
I have meet a few whores that I was rather fond of, some are victims of circumstance, and or drugs. Others are whores by choice. Frequently those of choice have rather high IQs and are most intriguing and more dangerous than you can imagine. The love dancing on the edge of razor blades. The latter cost a lot more than the former and are numerous in Washington D.C. I have meet far fewer politicians that I am fond of.
The whore of politicians earns an honest living, her client is a parasite on the back of the taxpayer. The whore delivers a product at a set price dictated by rational economics. The politician sends the taxpayer the bill.
Given the choice between voting for Harry Reid or a whore, I will vote for the whore, because I will not vote for a dishonest lying parasite.
“The Committee’s determination that sex had no value and that sex between a lobbyist and politician was nothing to report”
I’m sure there’s someone, somewhere, that could furnish them a price list for specific acts. The Raleigh vice squad could probably get one for them.
Tallulah had her training in North Carolina: Bugsy Malone - My Name is Tallulah
Sex has no value? Tell that to the folks who manufacture Viagra and Cialis...
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They call lobbying firms in D.C. “K Street Whores” for a reason... and it’s not because their office is on K Street.
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