Barney Frank… Looking for some tasty waves, or a cool buzz?

All I need are for some tasty waves, a cool buzz and I’m fine… Jeff Spicoli, Fast Times at Ridgemont High

There is a story coming off of Capitol Hill that is somewhat cryptic in its political context, but as surfer, I had to follow up on it…. Because you don’t get many surfing stories coming from Capitol Hill and as a long time surfer girl this really sounds likes a party in the making to me…

Seems Politico is reporting that arch conservative Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has invited openly gay Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Barney Frank and his partner, Jim Ready, to Southern California to catch a few tasty waves…

According to Politco…

Rohrabacher said he broached the idea with Frank at a function not long ago, after Ready had told him of their shared interest in hanging ten…. “We have them set up at surfers hotel,” says Rohrabacher, joking that Frank “will probably have to lie on the beach like a whale while the rest of us are in the water.”

It is pretty well known amongst surfing Capitol Hill types that Rohrabacher is the Big Kahuna of the Congressional Surfing Caucus, which also includes fellow California Republicans Brian Bilbray and Duncan Hunter…

And Rohrabacher is every bit a surfer dude that Jeff Spicoli could be proud of… he is a supporter of the medicinal use of marijuana and once stated, in true Spicoli fashion, that global warming could have been caused by “dinosaur flatulence.”

Frank and Rohrabacher have very little in common politically, so initially I was dooby… us dubious of the Politico report, but a quick check with Frank’s office today confirmed the story is true and Congressman Frank has accepted the offer.

Now in the course of my day job here on Capitol Hill, I regularly see Congressman Frank and he is a Barney far from the picture perfect image of a surfer, so I was relieved as a surfer and humanitarian when his staffer told me that the Honorable Rep from Massachusetts will probably be staying out of the line up and will not be doing any surfing, but it should be noted that the one thing Frank and Rohrabacher have in common politically….. Frank also supports of the medicinal use of marijuana.

Frank is co-sponsoring, along Rohrabacher, the Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults Act of 2009 …. so maybe they plan to spend some time makin’ some pot laws, and having some food.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/25852.html

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