Senator Marc Dann and the lemmings.... - Marc Dann recently met with Meet the Bloggers, a group created thanks to George Nemeth. (As a brief history for those who aren't aware of this.)
They offer not only pod casts of the audio but a written transcript of the question and answer sessions. I discovered today that Marc made this comment which I thought was not only pretty good but worth pointing out:
Tim Russo: So why does it matter to anybody that they get $5,000 from KeyBank?
Marc Dann: Because it is five times 22. There are 22 Republican Senators. That is $110,000.
Tim Russo: That’s fine, but if the guy is not going to lose his seat under any circumstance, why does $5,000 suddenly make you interested in KeyBank?
Marc Dann: Because then the next pressure on you, if you want any bill of yours to move and you’ve got to stay in good keeping with the leadership of the Republicans in the House and the Senate, and it is still the same as it was under Householder. Householder was just a little more open about it. Then in your second term, you immediately spend your time (at least the people that I have observed) lobbying for an executive appointment, because that is the way to keep your PDRS and to continue after government. So you have to behave at that point in order to get your executive appointment, and it attracts lemmings to the legislature. My colleagues are a bunch of frickin’ lemmings, and it is really sad, on both sides, to some degree.
The full transcript is below...as well as a link to the audio. This particular segment was a part of number 4.
http://www.meetthebloggers.net/marc-dann-transcript/
The link to the main site:
http://www.meetthebloggers.net/
It's really a good resource for those interested in hearing/reading what candidates as well as those like Chris Redfern are saying. It gives you an opportunity to hear more than is possible in the short blurb content that the traditional media gives us.
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