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...lobbyist husband to buy her din ner. There is some doubt that Sarah Michael, a consultant for another committee, could legally accept an engagement ring from Bernie Mikell, her boy friend, since he works as a lobbyist for the California Savings and Loan League. The state's assemblymen have sworn off the free orange juice, dough nuts, ice cream and milk that traditionally have been donated by outside interests...
...Chappie thought at first that he would have to find some walnuts grown on state land to keep the squirrels from becoming a vanishing breed. But then Assemblyman Edwin L. Z'berg won 50 Ibs. of walnuts in a raffle, which he promptly gave to Chappie. Now other assemblymen are anteing up a buck apiece for a nut fund to keep the squirrels gamboling as happily as in the days before Proposition Nine altered the ways and means of everyone's life in Sacramento...
This year, when all California was reapportioned, 61 state senators and assemblymen became eligible for pension relief. If all 61 decided to retire or were defeated, California's taxpayers would have to pay about $5.7 million for the extra benefits. Retiring Assembly Speaker Bob Moretti, 38, stood to receive $8,742 a year from 1975 on, or $186,384 by the time he reached...
...exceptions. In 21 states, small numbers of student activists operate public-interest research groups, which lobby for education bills in state legislatures and try to influence state politics. For example, New York's group recently published pamphlet-size political profiles of each of the 60 senators and 150 assemblymen who are running for re-election to the state legislature...
...students asked 271 state senators, assemblymen and members of their staffs to sign, and 111 refused, variously dismissing the petition as a dubious proposition, probably illegal, and poorly worded at best. When Governor David Hall was presented with it, how ever, he examined the document quickly, took out his pen and signed at once. He immediately recognized the wording of the petition as the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...