Hustler goes to all 535 members of Congress. Free of charge.

[MSgt213]

Congress gets Hustler magazine, even if it is unwanted
Filling up the trash: Some have sued to make it stop, only to lose over the public's right to seek redress from Congress
By Thomas Burr
The Salt Lake Tribune

WASHINGTON - The porn magazine arrives every month at your congressman's office.
Tucked in a conservative-looking manila envelope, the latest edition of Hustler goes to all 535 members of Congress. Free of charge.
Not that most members want it. It usually gets thrown in the circular file marked “trash.”
But like clockwork, it keeps coming, despite efforts to have it stop.
The spokesman for Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, recently tried to halt the mailing. Nope.
Several members of Congress have sued to make it stop, only to lose. Something about the public being able to seek redress from Congress means they have to take it, apparently. But that doesn't mean they have to be happy about it.
“It's a disgusting abuse of the system,” Cannon says. “It's a nasty, tricky little thing to do by a person with no conscience.”
The magazines have been coming for more than a decade at least. Publisher Larry Flynt says he started sending them as soon as his magazine began publication in 1974, but an Associated Press story from 1983 has Flynt initiating the mailings that year.
Either way, he's not going to stop mailing Congress.
“I felt that they should be informed with what's going on in the rest of the world,” Flynt says, deadpanning during an interview: “Some of them didn't appreciate it much.”
But, “I haven't had any plans to quit.”
It doesn't surprise him much that some members don't want the Beverly Hills, Calif.-based publication, which he describes as a “humor magazine” and one that deals with “a lot of political and social satire.”
“I would never force a subscription on someone who didn't want it,” Flynt says, except for members of Congress who are public servants.
And he doesn't feel bad that the ones who are actually opening the envelopes aren't the members of congress but young interns.
“I'm sure the interns are over 18,” Flynt says. “Those guys need some help getting through puberty anyway.”
Interns for Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, are trained to distinguish the nudie magazine's envelope from the other mail and throw it away, says Chief of Staff Scott Parker.

http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3510974

[Jacobin]

1. Larry's my hero

:thumbsup:

[Webster Green]

2. He's great!

I love people who stir shit up.

[Warpy]

3. HAHAHAHA! Gotta love that ol' smut peddler, Flynt

He sure knows how to hurt a Congressman and get them to avoid passing laws that would put anyone who gets dirty magazines in the mail to be put on a sexual predator watch list (something I feel sure they'd do were they not getting their complimentary copies every month).

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Good for Larry Flynt!

Maybe we should all start mailing porn to our congresspeople - especially the republican fuckwits, who more than likely have their own stash of even more hardcore and hideous porn at their gay prostitute's homes anyway.

[theshadow]

5. I wonder how many of them take it home for "research". eom

[RC]

7. Another perk of the congresscritters

[raggedcompany]

6. goes in the trash...yeah, right. Hail Larry Flynt, American Hero! n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

8. "jukka jukka jukka jukka ... pant ..... pant .... jukka jukka jukka .... "

I'm just sayin' .........

[Clark2008]

9. You know, there are females in Congress who

probably don't find this a bit amusing.

I'd be offended. And I'm not a prude. I just support sex with my husband (in all its forms), but I'm not a huge fan of pornography. I think many feminists in Congress wouldn't like this.

[NYCGirl]

10. Then I'm sure they exercise their right to throw it in the trash. For me,

I love Larry Flynt. And though there's stuff in Hustler that I find unbelievably tasteless, I will defend Flynt's right to publish it.

[0007]

13. Kudos for you young lady!

[EC]

11. Hope Larry's been putting some good articles in there

he is after all giving them a head's up on any new exposes.:rofl:

[Laelth]

12. Bwahahahaha!

That's funny. Good for Flint! :patriot:

-Laelth

[mitchum]

14. Another reason to love Larry