Originally Posted by
bundabergdevil
Here's my Larry Flynt story:
I moved to DC a few months after graduating college. A friend told me you HAD to have Hill experience to get anywhere in the city and that the best way to get an internship was not to send your resume in with the hundreds of others an office receives but to just show up at your Congressman's office and ask for one. So that's what I did. I went to my Congressman's office and told them I was a constituent and wanted an internship. They didn't have availability but said to go down the hall to another state congressman's office because they were looking. So, I did that too. That office said, "Great, can you start Monday." And that's how I interned for one of the most socially conservative politician's on the planet at the time.
ANYWAY, fast forward a few months and I was in the office essentially by myself because the paid staff was at a team building circle j...um, retreat. I was sifting through the mail and a magazine-sized envelop addressed to the Congressman from Larry Flynt had arrived. "Oh my," I thought. I opened it and sure enough was a short note from Larry Flynt and a copy of Hustler magazine. It had the Barbie twins on the Hustler. I was young and dumb and convinced that I'd stumbled into some real life sex scandal stuff. My socially conservative firebrand liked smut. I sent a panicked email to the Chief of Staff who sent an email that was the closest thing to an eye roll emoji as they had at the time. He told the Scheduler to 'take care of this'. The Scheduler told me what was what, that Larry Flynt sent copies of Hustler to a lot of politicians, and to get rid of it.
I smuggled that copy of Hustler out of the Canon HOB and still have it, sheathed as it were in an envelope addressed to the Congressman.
Also true story: I have been in a Capitol Hill lockdown.