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At a news conference the other day, Governor Pat Quinn complained about the influence of lobbyists in "three-piece suits and fancy shoes." He was referring to lobbyists from Com-Ed.Evil lobbyists are like evil special interests. Populists rage about them all the time. Unless the lobbyists contribute lumps of cash to their campaign funds. Those lobbyists are champions of the people.
Pat Quinn never complains about public employee union lobbyists in nice suits and shoes. Those lobbyists never show up wearing purple shirts, green shirts, or black satin ball jackets emblazoned with gold logos and running shoes. They show up in three piece suits with fancy loafers. Some show up in silk suits, fancy loafers with paper thin soles, pinky rings, and big cigars.
Those are the good lobbyists. Every time Pat Quinn sees one of them his eyes light up. He sees dollar signs.
There are the lobbyists in the bespoke suits and fancy shoes who advocate unneeded tax increases. Pat Quinn loves those guys.
Don't forget the lobbyists who push the state to borrow more money. They represent the bond companies and underwriters. They show up in bankers' pinstripes and fancy brogans. Quinn adores those guys.
There are the lobbyists for the legal profession- a profession that contributed major bucks too Quinn's campaign. They show up in expensive suits and fancy shoes too.
Lobbyists and special interests fall into two categories in Pat Quinn's eyes. The evil ones and the ones who show up with checks or promises of checks to campaign funds.
An evil lobbyist, like a penitent, can redeem himself. All he has to do is switch who he gives the check to. If it goes to Quinn, the lobbyist is doing nothing less than trying to save the free world. If it goes to anyone else, the lobbyist is evil. A fiend in designer clothing. A weasel trying to cheat the hard working people of Illinois. The people Quinn claims to represent.
Pat Quinn is no different than his predecessor, Rod Blagojevich. He is bought and paid for. He is owned by guys in three piece suits wearing fancy shoes. He would not talk to anyone else.
Can you imagine some poor mook who shows up wearing khaki work pants, a tee shirt, scuffed work boots, and a piggy bank with change in it? That guy would be hauled off for trying to bribe someone. Worse, police may think the piggy bank is really a bomb.
What is amazing is Pat Quinn is allowed to get away with making these inane statements. People actually believe him. People in the media rarely criticize him.
So, let's get this straight. All lobbyists are well dressed and wear nice shoes. If they showed up wearing anything less they might be mistaken for a low paid intern, a bureaucratic hack, or a crank.
It is not the suit or the shoes that make the lobbyist evil or good. It is who the check is made out to.
05 Jun, 2011
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Source: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/middle-class-guy/2011/06/populist-pat.html
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