Lawmakers should file charges vs. unethical lobbyists

The convening of the next session of the Texas Legislature in January of 2009 brings with it an inevitable question:

Which state legislator of Texas, if any, will actually succeed at preventing any and all lobbyists for special-interest groups from compromising the moral integrity of that lawmaker over the course of the 2009 legislative session in Austin.

If any such state legislator is ever publicly identified that way, I am very hopeful that that state elective official will be willing to hold a press conference.

The theme of that press conference will be: "How I Protected My Morals During the Legislative Session of 2009 as numerous unscrupulous lobbyists attempted to bribe me and seduce me."

One question that I hope this admirable state legislator will be willing to answer at that press conference is as follows:

"If in fact you as a state legislator directly obtained criminal-law evidence during the 2009 Legislative Session that one or more lobbyists sought to involve you in illegal bribes or other illegal activities, please tell us about the criminal-law charges or civil-law lawsuits that you definitely will be filing tomorrow in a court of law in Austin, Texas, against that unethical lobbyist or those unethical lobbyists."