Ticketmaster’s troubled handling of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour prompted California lawmakers to spend months cracking down on the ticketing industry — while they enjoyed thousands of dollars worth of free tickets themselves from interest groups, a POLITICO analysis shows.
One assemblymember even appears to have accepted concert tickets to that very Swift tour, which prompted the effort to dismantle ticketing monopolies following backlash over Ticketmaster’s glitch-riddled sales rollout. She was later involved in legislative efforts to regulate the industry that ultimately stalled.
The findings are part of a wider POLITICO analysis of all 120 state lawmakers’ financial disclosures last year that found 66 state assemblymembers and senators received more than $30,000 total worth of tickets. The giveaways included entrance to Disneyland with mouse ears included, a music festival pass to see country music stars like Eric Church, and San Francisco 49ers seats. One of the biggest recipients of tickets to college sporting events also chairs the higher education committee.
Your point of view is quite wrong.
“Oh you remember those tickets we gave you? That you accepted? If you don’t do XYZ, we’re going to leak that unreceived gifts. And it’s going to look bad because, well you did.”
That’s why they’re called hooks. They start small and inconsequential. Maybe not even wrong. But they get worse over time and you’re stuck.
That’s how corruption works.
The tickets were all listed on the forms they use to report gifts. There’s no leaking the gifts like you’re imagining.
That’s all explained in the article.
Just because they appear on a form doesn’t mean that the public knows about.
A lot of graft gets covered up in bullshit that way.
The forms are literally for informing the public about gifts received.
I now know you haven’t even read the article, so talking to you about this is meaningless since all you seem to want to be is right. I was asking a serious question about the process, not looking to argue about whatever it is youre looking to argue about. Thanks for wasting my time.
Enjoy the rest of your day.