Big receptions hosted by members of the Legislature in the month-plus since the election have been fairly common. Some of the guest lists have been things in common, too.
Of the 181 members of next year鈥檚 , 89 have held fundraising receptions in the five weeks since the November election. So reports in the Austin American-Statesman.
But one of the common threads through these receptions (besides the money, of course) is the lobbyists who are in attendance. With opening day of the 2011 session just over a month away, Embry and KUT鈥檚 Ian Crawford discuss the nexus of lobbyists and money in this week鈥檚 鈥淭exas Political Parlor.鈥�
Here's the Texas Political Parlor for December 9, 2010
http://media.kut.org/sounds/news_00023440/TX_Political_Parlor_2010-12-09_MIX.mp3
