Sen. Diane Feinstein canceled a campaign fundraiser after the Roll Call published a Lobbyist's invitation to constituents inviting them to attend. The invitation to donate to Feinstein's campaign listed Feinstein's various Committee roles as meal courses on the fundraiser's luncheon menu (i.e. power on the menu to be bought).
What's a Senator to do when a contributor lobbyist exposes the naked relationship between campaign fund raising and getting the ear of the Senator for various legislative matters to come up in the Senator's various committee agendas? Cancel it, of course, and issue a statement that the Invitation would likely be, now get this: "Misinterpreted!"
You can read the full story at the Washington Times (a conservative news paper). There is only one way our representatives in Congress can be divorced from their wealthy K-Street Lobbyist contributors, and that is by the force of a growing anti-incumbent movement amongst voters, capable of unseating ever larger percentages of those seeking reelection. Only then will they be free to re-marry the American people, and represent and defend the people's expectations for a Congress whose job they can approve of in the polls.
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