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What, no pics?

Are you going to the dinner?

Thinking about it.

I want to see if Speaker Chopp is among those being honored.

Slippery slope! Slippery slope!

What other dinners have you been invited to? I think you should go. And bring Kim.

Seems like it would be a good idea to go, just to see which Dems decide it's a GOOD IDEA to be seen in bed with the BIAW.

who are the House D's opposing the homeowners' rights bill?

did they get donations from BIAW?

Yeah, go and bring back a list of names (that shouldn't make it past the primaries).

What did I tell you, Josh?

Now, you can take the BIAW lobbyist dinner, and leverage it into a nice dinner with Ms. Justice.....

Cleve,

Rep. Mark Ericks is the Dem that the BIAW gave a shout out to in their invite. I didn't find any direct money from BIAW on his 2006 campaign finance report.

Of course, the big Democratic opposition to the bill last year was from House Speaker Frank Chopp.

I have a feeling the bill might die in the Rules committee this year ... thanks to House leadership.

Look for builders and developers in individual donors' listed professions --that's probably how BIAW gets money to campaigns. Contribution limits don't allow big money to flow from these groups. They do independent expenditures and the like and encourage their members to contribute.

@11,

I'm hep. Getting the paper out the door today, and just did a quick scan for BIAW.

As you know, they brazenly show up on Chopp's list.

Well, at least bring a cell phone and get a pic of her this time.

Josh Feit and the Stranger are lobbyist tools, and they prove it every time Josh Feit brings this up.