The late and legendary speaker of the California State Assembly, Jess Unruh, laid down to his legislative colleagues tough rules for their dealings with the free-spending lobbyists then much in vogue in Sacramento:
"If you can't drink their booze, take their money, sleep with their women and then vote against 'em, you don't belong in politics."
In the fall of 2007 in Washington, D.C. — where money doesn't simply talk, it roars — our need for legislators gut ...
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