Comments on: Why lobbyist’s gifts to legislators are so rarely reported and so difficult to track

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:46:27 +0000

One gift to Coleen Hanabusa that stands out:
the book “Nonkilling Global Political Science” from the Center for Global Nonkilling.

Not an artful name but a potentially world changing work. It’s encouraging to see that book in her list of goodies.

Aaron — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:15:15 +0000

Other than a scandal, it could be made a campaign issue by candidates with good (or no) records on gift-taking.

charles — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:27:43 +0000

It sounds like a mess. One way would be like Minnesota where everything is banned. So a lobbyist can’t even give a legislator a paper clip.

Now that would eliminate lei which may be a bit of a cultural dilemma.