Don Beason and his approach are always welcome in my office.
— Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight, praising contract lobbyist Don Beason in undated remarks quoted on Beason's Web site. The page was taken down after it was revealed that Beason had once loaned disgraced former House Speaker Jim Black $500,000.
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