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Missouri Senate Committee Republicans create "breakfast club."

February 1, 2006
By: Josh Kranzberg
State Capital Bureau

Missouri Senators have started their own "Breakfast Club." Josh Kranzberg has more on the Republican's newest fundraiser from the state Capitol.

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Missouri Senate Committee Republicans invited lobbyists to a number of roundtable discussions over breakfast.

For a thousand dollars, lobbyists get an hour with a committee chairman, while five thousand gets them a pass to all 14 meetings.

But long-time lobbyist John Britton says he's never seen anything like this before in Missouri0

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Contents: It's my understanding that this type of thing is quite commonplace in Washington, and maybe we're just becoming a reflection of the system that has worked successfully up to a point. I don't know how successful it's gonna turn out.

According to the invitation, Senator Charlie Shields will hold the first meeting on February 14th. From the state Capitol, I'm Josh Kranzberg