OC Assemblyman In Bed With Lobbyist . . . No, Literally In Bed

[bigworld]

Source: Orange County Weekly

SACRAMENTO--Freshmen legislators arriving in Sacramento receive advice from veteran
 politicians about the intricacies of working in California's capital. One of those tips is to remember that microphones broadcasting legislative debates can also capture embarrassing, career-ending personal admissions if a politician isn't careful. Michael D. Duvall, Orange County's 72nd Assembly
District representative, must have forgotten the warning.

In July--two days after Assembly Speaker Karen Bass and Republican leader Sam Blakeslee put Duvall on the Rules Committee that oversees member ethics--the second-term, conservative, Republican assemblyman sat in a public hearing and vividly described lewd details about his trysts with a female lobbyist whose clients had business before another committee on which
 Duvall sits.


Duvall, speaking to a relatively mum Republican colleague seated to his left, apparently had no idea his dais microphone became live beginning about a minute before the start of a cable-televised committee hearing. He was captured in the middle of recounting portions of an affair.


"She wears little eye-patch underwear," said Duvall, who is married with two children. "So, the other day she came here with her underwear, Thursday. And
 so, we had made love Wednesday--a lot! And so she'll, she's all, 'I am going 
up and down the stairs, and you're dripping out of me!' So messy!"

Read more: http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/breaking-news/oc-assemblyman-in-bed-with-lob/

[BOSSHOG]

1. God Bless those conservative values

No doubt Bill Clinton forced him to sleep with the lobbyist. And No doubt Mr. Duvall will be forgiven by others with values and be reelected.

[n2doc]

30. He's admitting to not one but two "girlfriends"

I suppose all he needs to do is convert to the polygamous LDS sect and marry them and he will be all right in the eyes of the Lawd...

[Mari333]

2. EWWWWW

'"She wears little eye-patch underwear," said Duvall, who is married with two children. "So, the other day she came here with her underwear, Thursday. And
 so, we had made love Wednesday--a lot! And so she'll, she's all, 'I am going 
up and down the stairs, and you're dripping out of me!' So messy!"

Duvall ran from reporters today in the capitol

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[n2doc]

8. I wonder how much she was paid by her official employer?

Better have been a lot! Eeeew is right....Guy looks like a walking heart attack candidiate...

[Mari333]

15. oooo heres the SCANDALOUS VIDEO!!

http://wonkette.com/410964/vulgar-ca-assemblyman-caught-on-open-mic-bragging-about-various-affairs-with-lobbyists

[progressoid]

21. Ewww...even that TV braodcast told more than I wanted to know.

:puke:

[Uncle Joe]

17. I don't know, but apparently they didn't need to reimburse her for expenses.

"In April--two months after Duvall became vice chairman of the Utilities & 
Commerce committee--privately owned California utility giant Sempra Energy hired Barsuglia as one of its top lobbyists, according to Secretary of State
 records.
 Barsuglia, who has a law degree and once worked as a speechwriter for
 Governor Pete Wilson, had previously worked at the California Retailers 
Association (CRA). During 25 months of work at CRA, she reported that she incurred no reportable lobbying expenses. She joined Sempra after the 
departure of another lobbyist: David Hayes, who was named deputy director of the Interior Department by President Barack Obama.
 The San Diego-based utility conglomerate (created in 1998 by Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric) isn't shy about lobbying
 lawmakers for favorable treatment. This session, they gave Duvall $1,500 in campaign contributions. In May, the assemblyman officially adopted the company's negative view on Assembly Bill 64, which proposes increasing the percentage of electricity the utilities must procure from environmentally
 sensitive sources."

I wonder who else she....lobbied?

[Joe Bacon]

3. Is he auditioning for membership in The Family?

Sounds like he'd fit right in with them! And of course, since he's a Republican, Jesus will forgive anything he does because he's one of the chosen...

[question everything]

27. No, auditioning for the John Schmitz award

Another Orange County politician who started that hypocritical trend:

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/main/about-schmitz/

Usually when Schmitz is remembered these days, if he is remembered at all, it is for being the father of Mary Kay Letourneau, who became internationally famous as a dedicated teacher/statutory rapist. But Schmitz was a remarkable piece of work in his own right-- a barking-mad right-wing Republican politician

Schmitz also briefly grabbed a little of the national spotlight by talking about a coup, and today is the 25th anniversary of Schmitz's famous statement. On October 19, 1981,

California state senator John Schmitz tells a TV interviewer that if Reagan's policies fail, "the best we could probably hope for is a military coup or something like that." He explains that he is talking about "a good military coup, not a bad military coup."

Schmitz's political career came to end the following year. Not because of his political views, but because some hair was so tightly wrapped around the penis of a baby, that the little Orange County boy required medical attention. Doctors were convinced that the hair had been deliberately tied around the penis-- one doctor described it as "a square knot"-- and in the ensuing investigation, it emerged that Schmitz was the boy's father, even though the mother wasn't Mrs. Schmitz. And it was revealed that the boy with the hair-clamped penis wasn't the only extramarital Schmitz offspring.

[Liberty Belle]

40. I remember the Schmitz incident well - he excused his behaivor by saying

"at least I didn't make her get an abortion!"

[MidwestTransplant]

4. But he is a conservative Republican. I don't understand? This is so atypical.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Best/worst story I've read all week. nt

[Bozita]

6. A pilgrimage to the "House on C Street" would absolve all his sins.

[Bette Noir]

7. Yuck. Do we have to have the visuals?

[bertman]

9. So nowadays IT is called "lobbying". Finally I get it.

[UpInArms]

10. pic of Heidi DeJong Barsuglia

Assembly Member Paul Krekorian and Heidi Barsuglia from the California Retailers Association

[Tansy_Gold]

13. California retailers indeed. n/t

[Mari333]

18. heres another pic

[pimpbot]

32. It gets even better, she went to a private christian boarding school

Weimar Academy

About Weimar Academy

It is our mission to
Lead to Christ,
Educate to Excel, and
Inspire for Service.


Weimar Academy, a division of Weimar Center of Health & Education, is a private Christian boarding high school, supportive of Seventh-day Adventist beliefs and doctrines based on the inspired writings of Scripture and Ellen White. We express this support through personal lifestyle choices coupled with a positive attitude toward the organized church.

http://academy.weimar.edu/about.php

Heidi Barsuglia (Dejong)
Weimar Academy

Weimar, CA
Class of 1989


From classmates.com. I guess she learned a lot at that school!

[DeSwiss]

38. Well, it's not like she wasn't "trained" for this.....

Ms. Barsuglia graduated cum laude from California State University, Sacramento with a Bachelor of Arts degree combining a double major in Political Science and Persuasive Communications. She graduated with honors from University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law with a Juris Doctor.

http://www.calretailers.com/heidi.php

[grace0418]

11. See! Gay marriage is already destroying conservative families! Look what the gays getting

married forced this poor man to do! Otherwise I'm sure he would've stayed home and prayed with his wife and children every night.

[Mari333]

12. he is famous now on Wickipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Duvall

and for all the wrong things....

[Wizard777]

14. Good ole Spanky Duvall (R). He screws the lobbyist before he lets them screw you.

Oh you're such a bad lobbyist. I'm going to have to spank you before voting for your agenda. So who do Californians gotta screw to get some health care?

[Soylent Brice]

16. yeah, this one just got bookmarked.

oh how i love schadenfreude.

[quiet.american]

19. What a "Lonesome Rhodes" moment! You can't make this stuff up!

LOL at this quote, too --

"Assemblyman Duvall has been a consistent trooper for the conservative causes," CRI president Karen England announced in March. "For the last two years, he has voted time and time again to protect and preserve family values in California. We are grateful for his support of California
 families.'"

[bertman]

20. Somebody should ask the assemblyman if Mrs. Duvall gets to "lobby" with Mr. Lobbyist.

[question everything]

22. Got to love these "family values" Republicans

From the end of the story

Earlier this year, the man who never graduated from high school received "100 percent" approval scores 
by the California Republican Assembly, the state's leading conservative outfit, and the Capitol Resource Institute (CRI), a fierce guardian of traditional family values.


"Assemblyman Duvall has been a consistent trooper for the conservative causes," CRI president Karen England announced in March. "For the last two years, he has voted time and time again to protect and preserve family values in California. We are grateful for his support of California
 families.'"

Acknowledging the CRI award, Duvall observed in a press release that as long as he is in office, he would work to protect "California families" from "constant assault in Sacramento."

:puke:

[Mari333]

23. from a bio about his lobbyist girlfriend

"Ms. Barsuglia graduated cum laude from California State University, Sacramento with a Bachelor of Arts degree combining a double major in Political Science and Persuasive Communications"

[Bozita]

24. "Persuasive Communications" - You can major in it? ... WOW!

Born too soon.

[Gin]

25. wow..just sickening wow....he is a pig...she is a pig...I hope the press

hounds him to hell and back...same with the female...she deserves no less.. (IMO)

[yellowcanine]

26. Thank God he is not getting married to a gay man because his marriage might be in trouble.

[dothemath]

28. Move along, folks, nothing to see here ................

Family values repuke bragging about fu**ing a 'lobbyist' (in most circles, make a prostitute connection and you will be 'on the money', so to speak).

Ho hum.

Wouldn't surprise me if hordes of liberal democrats - those with spines AND cojones - make like lemmings in the not too distant future. Say, starting in 2010. By 2008, the stars were aligned, the repukes had been flagellating themselves while they were flagellating the rest of the world for most of a generation - AND WE WON.

Within a year, we were poised to give it back to the repukes. Damn, it used to take us a little longer. Oh well, I may join the 'lemmings' in looking for a cliff to step off. I don't have another generation to give before we can give it back again.

[xxqqqzme]

29. R. Scott Moxley is a dog w/ a bone

once he sinks his teeth in a corrupt politician. It took a couple of years, but he brought down the outrageously corrupt County sheriff here. With the parent company of the OC Register in bankruptcy and the LAT morphing into a murdoch wannabe rag, OC Weekly is the only newspaper here behind the orange curtain.

[dothemath]

31. This is getting boring .....................

Move along, folks, nothing to see here ................ Family values repuke bragging about fu**ing a 'lobbyist' (in some most circles, make a prostitute connection and you will be ri'on the money', so to speak).

Ho hum.

Wouldn't surprise me if hordes of liberal democrats - those with spines AND cojones - make like lemmings in the not too distant future. Say, starting in 2010. By 2008, the stars were aligned, the repukes had been flagellating themselves while they were flagellating the rest of the world for a most of a generation - AND WE WON.

Within a year, we were poised to give it back to the repukes. Damn, it used to take us a little longer. Oh well, I may joing the 'lemmings' in looking for a cliff to step off. I don't have another generation to give before we can give it back again.

[roody]

33. Uuuuuuuuh FUCHI!

[bigworld]

34. He has made some comments addressing the matter on his website.

from http://www.duvallforassembly.com/....

"I made a mistake and sincerely apologize. I deeply regret the comments I made in what I believed to be a private conversation. This is a private matter and I ask that everyone respect the privacy of all involved."

That's the worst non-apology I've ever heard.

[quiet.american]

36. *Now* he's concerned about privacy. Just can't make this stuff up. nt

[Papa Boule]

35. What I get from the video

is that it comes off as a couple of best buds guy-talking about experiences with hot-and-cold-running sex-providing lobbyists. Like it's all a routine part of the perks that make this the coolest job in the world.

I feel like that's being missed here -- this is more important as an indictment of the lobbyist biz than a story about yet another conservative values pol caught with his hypocritical pants down.

[galledgoblin]

37. BWAHAHAHAHA... supporter of Prop 8

I'll let myself indulge in a good belly laugh over this.

[Liberty Belle]

39. Why SDG&E might feel the need to put a lobbyist in bed with the guy overseeing their industry....

SDG&E is in big trouble for causing so many wildfires in Southern California due to allegedly poorly maintained lines etc.
They want the state to absolve utilities of strict liability in such cases. Their insurance premiums are going up because of all the property damage and deaths caused by the fires, and now SDG&E wants the state CPUC to okay having ratepayers foot that bill.

Also the timing of this is very bad timing for SDG&E, since tomorrow the CPUC will rule on whether to approve SDG&E's request to shut off power to up to 60,000 San Diego County residents whenever fire danger is high, in order to lessen its liability if its lines cause a fire. Of course they don't care that leaving people without power means reverse 911 calls, internet emergency alerts, TV and radio won't reach people just when they need critical evacuation info. Electric powered wells won't work either, or critical medical equipment.

Interesting that SDG&E wants to put people in the dark, while its lobbyist is reportedly operating in the dark having sexual hanky panky with a committee chair who oversees the utility industry!