Farewell Charlie Palmer: Farewell To All The Steak, Farewell To All The Money
January 6, 2006.
On the C-SPAN morning call-in program, the topic is lobbying and money and politics.
The guest is from the American League of Lobbyists… Here’s one of the calls.
Good morning, so, you are either stupid or naive, or whatever. If you are a low-level aid, you know good and well that if I were to call my congressman, who is Frank Wolf, I'm not going to get an audience with him unless I take him to Charlie Palmer's steakhouse right down on 101 Constitution Avenue. I am not going to get a call-back from him. I am not going to get a regular letter. I’m going to get a form letter…
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