Lawmakers are invited to Skinny's tonight for an annual drunken karaoke event.
Yes, it's the middle of the session. Yes, half of them have families at home who they've barely seen, and no, they still haven't decided what they'll do about school finance.
But they're headed to Skinny's in Topeka tonight to drink and make merry with lobbyists who organize the debauchery. The event begins at 9 p.m., but the real fun starts much later when liquid courage draws them to the microphone.
It sounds fun, but the optics are awful.
Thankfully, there are many legislators who *never* participate in these things. You are absolutely right that the optics are terrible, but it goes beyond that - it goes to what is wrong with our politics today.
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