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Bilbray’s spokesman wouldn’t say if the congressman or his senior staff attended that event or any other cigar club get-togethers, but Jeff Choudhry, who lobbies for a large medical device manufacturer and other interests, was a board member of the club at the time. Choudhry and other lobbyists did not return numerous calls about whether they attended the events.
“That’s all outside of official stuff,” Fritz Chaleff, Bilbray’s communication’s chief,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said. “I certainly would love to be able to give you that kind of information, but I just don’t have it.” The Watchdog Institute,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], an independent investigative reporting center based at San Diego State University,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], combed through lobbying reports,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], corporate financial records,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], legislative actions, campaign finance data and the personal financial disclosures of Bilbray and his staff in the weeks since the Huffington Post first reported that lobbyists had key roles in the House-sanctioned Staff Congressional Cigar Association, a possible violation of ethics rules.
Chuck Cunningham, lobbyist for the National Rifle Association,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], also is involved in the cigar club,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], according to the Huffington Post. In the time since Bilbray sponsored the cigar club last year, he has lent his name to at least three bills that Cunningham specifically reported lobbying on, as well as other pro-gun legislation.
The month before he sought approval of the cigar association, Bilbray co-sponsored two more bills that Cunningham lobbied on. For instance, in October 2009, Bilbray was one of 18 co-sponsors of a bill that would loosen the law governing which former law enforcement officials can carry concealed weapons.
Cunningham reported lobbying on this legislation, which would give retired officers of the Amtrak Police Department,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Federal Reserve System, the executive branch, and the Armed Forces the right to carry concealed weapons. It also would give retired law enforcement officers the right to carry weapons in school zones.
The bill is pending in the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. “Congressman Bilbray has a long track record of supporting the 2nd Amendment,” Chaleff said. Brooke Williams is assigned to cover the San Diego congressional delegation in Washington D.C. and can be reached cheap-marlborocigarettes.com or 1-408-4703070.
AS part of the obligations under the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the Ministry of Health issued a press release recently, announcing that starting from 2011, smoking in all public places will be banned. While I hail the Ministry’s courage and determination to take on the tobacco industry, the thought of Don Quixote taking on the windmill can’t help crossing my mind.
Having had my own share of the windmill numerous times in restaurants, schools, and hospitals in Shanghai and Beijing, I finally settled with myself that smoking in public is just one of those hundreds things with what we call Chinese characteristics that we had better get accustomed to.