NMT has been given a deadline of 5PM MST to inform our readers that California lobbyist Shari McHugh, previously implicated by the savage blogosphere to have shared improper congress with disgraced Calif. Assemblyman Michael Duvall, was wrongly identified as Duvall’s second mistress. In fact, there is no such evidence.
NOT MY TRIBE has been informed by attorney Dale Stern of the law firm of Stern, Van Vleck, and McCarron, LLC, that McHugh, of the “highly regarded Sacramento lobbying firm of McHugh and Associates” is not the “Shar” mentioned in Duvall’s infamously indiscreet bragging. Perfectly fair enough. We regret echoing the false conjecture.
To read the lengthy comment threads on newspaper blogs about the comic fall of Representative Duvall , it’s unsurprising how many readers equate lobbyists with prostitutes. NMT is satisfied then to repeat what we have now verified by the legal notice given us, McHugh is a lobbyist to the California State Legislature.
We have now to ascertain for which special interests her firm of McHugh and Associates lobbied. Consumer advocates, for example, are usually called advocates, not lobbyists. We will then be able to extrapolate how many of our fellow citizens Shari McHugh has screwed.
It’s true, Shari McHugh was tarred with the Michael Duvall scandal on the flimsiest of innuendo. But the charge of being a lobbyist sticks.
Van Vleck was crawling all over my site as well for a few days because I had done the leg work to determine the connections between Duvall and McHugh and made a post. They have proof that McHugh isn’t the “Shar” or they just want you to shut up? If Susan Duvall divorces Mike Duvall, which I think she will, both of the names are going to come out and if Susan has any sense she’ll have both women come in for depositions. Getting lawyered up to scare off a blogger is one thing lying under oath in a civil matter is something wholly other. Personally I’d rather have people know I was a whore that be a convict. But hey that’s just me. Keep up the good work!