State Capitol workers, families benefit from BP's largess at Arco Arena

[Newsjock]

Source: Sacramento Bee

Petroleum giant BP's corporate sponsorship of Arco Arena has been lucrative for the Sacramento Kings during a long run that's set to end next year.

It's also been a sweet deal for state Capitol workers.

Since 2000, Arco's parent company has lavished more than $430,000 in the form of free tickets to basketball games, concerts and other arena events on lawmakers, their staff members and relatives, according to a Bee review of lobbyist disclosures by BP.

... Greg Maw, policy director for the Senate Republican Caucus, and his family received more than $680 in free concert tickets last year, including two free passes to Britney Spears' April 2009 Sacramento appearance.

Since 2001, the Maw family has received 39 tickets from Arco at a value of more than $5,000. Maw could not be reached for comment.

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/10/11/3094762/state-capitol-workers-families.html

[WhiteTara]

1. love that innocuous title "state capitol workers"

as though they are the secretaries and basic workers; not the lawmakers and their staff!

Note the beneficiary is/was Republicon.