Republican Whip Gets Engaged to Tobacco Lobbyist

[jburton]

I couldn't make it up if I tried!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030910/ap_on_go_co/brf_blunt_engaged_1
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Republican Whip Gets Engaged to Lobbyist

WASHINGTON - Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt (news, bio, voting record), the House Republican whip, is engaged to marry a tobacco lobbyist, his spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Blunt proposed over the weekend to lobbyist Abigail Perlman, said spokeswoman Burson Taylor. It is the second marriage for Blunt, 53, and the first for Perlman, 41, she said.

Perlman, who works for Philip Morris parent Altria Group Inc., does not lobby Blunt or his staff and will no longer lobby the House leadership, the spokeswoman said.

As majority whip, Blunt holds the No. 3 GOP leadership post in the Republican-controlled House. He is the father of the leading GOP candidate for governor, Missouri Secretary of State Matt Blunt.

[FlashHarry]

1. So he's literally 'in bed with big tobacco???'

Bwahahahahahahahaha!

[w4rma]

2. Irrefutable proof that big tobacco is in bed with the GOP

lol! FlashHarry beat me to the punch! :P

[FlashHarry]

3. Beat you by a minute!

Let's see if the press finds it as amusing...

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. Now there's a match made in hell.

[Shadowen]

5. Hmm...

Tobacco and blunt?

I'll let you come up with the joke yourselves.

[Paragon]

6. Wow, it's just like "The American President"...

...only evil. ;-)

[Sweetpea]

7. Hey...Love conquers all...:-)

[pfitz59]

8. Second marriage?

Is he another fundie cretin?

[FauxNewsBlues]

9. It's funny because it's true

[TahitiNut]

10. I wonder if they both smoke.

:shrug:

[Flying_Pig]

11. Now there's a toxic relationship!

:evilgrin:

[blm]

12. He JUST dumped his wife for his son's co-worker?

Republican family values.

This is the same guy whose son is a tobacco lobbyist, right?