Posted on 01/16/2002 9:48:07 PM PST by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:36:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
House Speaker Sam Rayburn had a simple, hard-and-fast rule about taking campaign contributions from powerful special interests who demanded something in return for their money.
"Anyone who can't drink their booze, eat their food, and take their money, and then vote against them the next day doesn't belong in politics," Mr. Rayburn often lectured his colleagues. Ol' Sam colorfully added one other offering to the list of emoluments that some accepted, but decorum forbids mentioning it here.
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