re: Poli board attorneys, question about defamation/slander law.

I think those guys use him as outside counsel. I'm not sure about that however. He was a sole practitioner. There was a firm of sole practitioners. He was the only one left. One got appointed to the Iowa Supreme Court. He got caught up in the gay marriage thing here. We basically unelected the entire Supreme Court. Two others are District Judges. So he went to an old money country club firm. After the first year they figured out he was the largest billing attorney in the office. It was a strange deal. The first year he was at the new firm I show up to talk to him about my taxes. It gets cold up here in the winter, so I'm in a corduroy sports coat, mock turtleneck and blue jeans. I wear stuff like this in front of judges and elected people, I didn't think there would be an issue with my dress at a place that I was writing a check to. They all look at me. You could see their contempt, every attorney in that place had this practice and wealth handed down to them.

So we go another year. During hte year something happened. The Iowa Supreme Court had a ruling about tortfeasors. I'm on the board on my industry PAC. Long story made short, we overturned the Supreme Court legislatively, and against the wishes (and lobbying) of the Iowa trial bar. So I walk in their office to talk about my personal taxes. Look, I don't dress up for anyone, but I don't make it a point to try to offend anyone, so I dress up. I didn't need to. All of them were like welcome sir. How are you sir. I don't care, and they're good guys, but that third generation hand me down law practice old money country club crowd is one group of fake people. They're just no that smart. When the Governor signed the bill, I was there. To this day they have no idea I was involved. The only reason they treated me well is they had a year to see how much my attorney billed.

And to correct the record, it might not have been the other attorney on here that indicated the employees were being treated unfairly. I'm not sure how anyone could come to the conclusion an untaxed dollar of benefit is not fair compared to the employer who has to spend money, so he can make less money, so he an pay less in tax. It might have been the economist that suggested this.

Anyway, that's probably way too much information. Someone could put two and two together and stalk me, so I'm out.

Good evening to you.