Posted on 03/20/2008 3:11:56 PM PDT by george76
Of all the wisecracks heard in the marble halls of New York's Capitol after Gov. Eliot Spitzer's downfall in a call-girl scandal, one jest enlightened as much as it stung: Spitzer's got to be the only guy in Albany who PAYS for sex.
It is an open secret that there is a lot of fooling around going on at the statehouse. And at other statehouses, too.
In fact, Gov. David Paterson, in an extraordinary news conference on Tuesday, his first full day on the job after taking over from Spitzer, acknowledged he had had extramarital affairs with a number of women while he was a state senator.
At night, legislators, young staffers, younger interns, lobbyists and reporters mix at two or three bars just blocks from the Capitol. And there are numerous receptions, campaign stops and caucuses where lawmakers, straight and gay alike, often have many opportunities for a hookup.
Up until just a few years ago, lawmakers would go "window shopping" for interns at the start of every legislative session. In a practice that went on for decades, the interns would be corraled in a Capitol newsstand so that legislators could pick their office help based on their looks, not their resumes.
The hanky-panky even has its own lexicon: There's the "Bear Mountain Compact," ...
Lobbyists, staffers and reporters who seek to enhance their influence by bedding powerful lawmakers are known as "big game hunters." And the men who sleep with the women lawmakers are "boy toys."
"Unfortunately, many of the people who seek public office are flawed people to begin with and the environment in Albany just tends to bring that out,"
Other Albany cases include Michael Boxley... Adam Clayton Powell IV...
(Excerpt) Read more at charlotte.com ...
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The title is an insult to Frat houses!
“window shopping” for interns
No kidding sound more like a whore house.
True, it seems that most of the college age women are into giving it away and not charging.
I'm shocked there isn't a revolution brewing, but people just seem to take it. Ben Franklin said it best when he said that you don't lose liberties at once, you lose them a little bit at a time. NY is the perfect example of this.
But, that's OK, we've got Hillary looking out for us...sigh...you know it's bad when you think Canada looks good to you...
Hillary wants these fools to run our health care .
gheeze
Who was it who said, “I don’t pay $200 for sex. I pay $200 so the woman will leave afterward.”
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