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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (70554)	1/4/2000 1:39:00 AM
From: Constant Reader	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I see, so a person named in the Constitution (20th and 25th Amendments) as being in the direct line of succession to become President of the United States is nothing more than a mid-level staffer. A little corruption is ok. Accountability sucks. And its ok to accept gifts from people one regulates, as long as the regulator is mid-level. Using your logic, any story about George Bush would be irrelevant. After all, he is only a Governor, not a President or a Chief of Staff! And, if he becomes President, stories about his past aren't relevant to his performance as President. Further application of this logic to local issues means that county public health regulators should be allowed to accept free gifts and meals from the people they inspect on behalf of the public. Policemen should feel free to accept small gratuities from pushers, thieves, and other criminals. The mid-level contract administrator who oversees the granting of hundreds of millions of dollars of public business contracts should not hesitate to take that free all-expense paid trip on the Concorde to Paris from that guy who wants to build that bridge - it won't influence his decision. No, not a bit. And, of course, legislators should be allowed to accept anything they want from lobbyists. That $25 rule in California is just a big mistake. Yep, lets go back to the good ol' days of the '90's, the 1890's.