The Kansas legislature's special investigating committee was at last ready with its report on the case of Republican National Chairman Charles Wesley Roberts. The committee found that Roberts "deliberately and intentionally" violated the "spirit" of the Kansas lobbying law in 1951. Roberts had taken an $11,000 fee from an insurance company for selling a hospital building to the state. He had not lobbied in the traditional sense, i.e., he did not ask legislators to vote for the sale, but he had talked to state officials. He did not hold any state or party office at the time, but he...
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