The Indy Star has an article on legislators accepting bowl game tickets from Indiana and Purdue Universities and questioning whether this might be a conflict of interest. Is it a perk given to legislators that is not given to ordinary citizens? Yes. Is it given to curry favor with legislators who make decisions that affect the universities? Probably. But, somehow I don’t feel any sense of outrage. Maybe I’m jaded. However, it does give me an opportunity to trot out one of my favorite political quotes:
If you can’t take their money, drink their liquor, fuck their women, and then come in here the next day and vote against them, you don’t belong here.
—Jesse Unruh
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