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I love how carefully the article steps around the central issue of who was doing the bribing. In context it seems likely it was Ticketmaster lobbyists, but the article would have you presume the tickets materialized from the ether and landed gently on a series of legislator desks.
Does “accepting” a gift/ticket mean they used that ticket? What if someone accepted a ticket, put it on the form as a gift, but didn’t use it? Or are they one and the same.
But oversight committees or whatever? Good luck with that.
It’s almost impossible to verify those tickets weren’t used. Even if they can demonstrate they were someplace else the entire night- those tickets could have been given to friends or family. Or scalped, or any other sort of thing.
Even if they didn’t use them, they’re still a hook because of how it appears. Once somebody receives free stuff, in what is obviously a quid pro quo, any moral integrity is lost.
If they used in anyway then the bribe was successful. If they only accepted it as a “whatever thanks”, filed it in the books, and then never used it then they were not successful bribed.
That’s my point of view on it. Obviously flat out not accepting it would be key though.
I’m not well versed in the area of accepting bribes. But Im willing to learn first-hand. Wink wink
“Oh you remember those tickets we gave you? That you accepted? If you don’t do XYZ, we’re going to leak that unreceived gifts. And it’s going to look bad because, well you did.”
That’s why they’re called hooks. They start small and inconsequential. Maybe not even wrong. But they get worse over time and you’re stuck.
The forms are literally for informing the public about gifts received.
I now know you haven’t even read the article, so talking to you about this is meaningless since all you seem to want to be is right. I was asking a serious question about the process, not looking to argue about whatever it is youre looking to argue about. Thanks for wasting my time.
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