Ok.... I have a question. If you think this kind of donation "crazy", does that imply that giving to Democrats is sane? Looking at this strictly on our business level - what if Marina Pacific's owners gave money to Sen. Dianne Fienstein?

Or Sen. Clinton of New York?

They sit on the Senate Judiary Commmittee - which is the perview of federal criminal law, such as the bills recently bandied about and passed that effect us. (2257, etc)

I have actually wondered about this. With so much of the porn industry in California, whose Congressional delegation is overwhelmingly Democratic, doesn't that imply that they would be standing up to the evil Republicans and protecting their adult industry constituents. After all - the Iowa delegation (both Dems and Rep) seem to find one voice when it comes to farm price subsidies and ethanol. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada takes money from casinos and represents their interests as it relates to Nevada.

Now if you answer this by saying something like Feinstein and Barbara Boxer don't lift a finger to help the adult industry, then the Marina Pacific guy would have a solid response to your "inconceivable" declaration - that both parties on this issue are pretty much the same, so therefore he would give his money to politicians with whom he is comfortable with on other issues.

Every other industry in the country has realized the benefits of having a non partisan advocacy organization to educate any lawmaker with power and willing to listen.... until then we are going to have to react passively and late in the courts.

Steve