Analect 06

A lobbiest is someone who hangs around lobbies trying to drum up business.

Some lobbiests hang around the lobbies of cheap hotels in crummy districts, pimping. .Some hang around the lobbies of more upscale districts, like the District of Columbia doing the same thing. They’re high-stakes specialists and very savvy about the hot johns in those precincts who troll for lobbiests.

It’s a fishing expedition that works out pretty well for both the hooker and the hookee.

Commentary:

Even though this is nominally a democracy, there are people who actually make their living buying the inallienable rights of others. This is hard to believe I know, but these people and politicians are in cahoots …with large and frequent campaign contributions things just become more possible.

Said the sage: Ibn Ali McCarthy (a boyhood friend of Roshi Bob),

“There are many nuanced ways to buy votes. You really don’t have to be so obvious as to set up pay stations at ballot boxes.”

Lobbiests understand those subtleties well.  In fact, they’re top experts in the fields of sub-rosa vote leases and symbiotic relationships.