CPA actively lobbies the New Jersey Legislature where Kean still serves as Senate Minority Whip.

Steven Some, though NOT named in connection with the 1989 prostitution investigation, also held positions in the Reagan administration, and worked with Dutcher in 1989:

"Peter Roussel...deputy White House press secretary 1981-87...joined with Charles (Chip) K. Dutcher, former Reagan assistant director of press personnel, and Steven E. Some, a government relations adviser, to invite 400 for cocktails 'In Celebration of the Presidential Inauguration of George Herbert Walker Bush'."

The wide spread use of a service that provided "call boys" to Washington, DC's political and power elite -- and the subsequent investigation -- is well-documented. However, the more salacious aspects were spun off into a number of incredible allegations that were easily discredited, and eventually overwhelmed the initial reporting.

But the original story remains uncontested.

Dutcher admitted using "the service," paying $155 for a sexual encounter with a male prostitute, in a 1989 interview with the Washington Times, backed up by a credit card receipt obtained by the FBI.

Two decades later, Dutcher and Some would end up lobbying the NJ state legislature, and donating to Kean's senatorial bid.

For his part, Kean would have NJ voters believe he seeks to tear down "entrenched political cultures" that "stand in the way of meaningful reform" and yet he's received over $275,000 from Leadership PACS, additional money raised by members of Congress to help fund other candidates' campaigns: financial favors he will have to repay if elected. And he's taken money from Altria (Halliburton), Exxon/Mobile (Halliburton), and Halliburton (Halliburton), as well as uber-lobbying firms like Barbour, Griffith and Rogers, Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, and Patton Boggs.

Kean says he supports amending the NJ State Constitution to "reaffirm" a definition of marriage that is nowhere affirmed. What he in fact proposes is redefining same sex couples as non-persons, by nullifying that "no person shall be denied the enjoyment of any civil or military right, nor be discriminated against in the exercise of any civil or military right.". Because all marriages are civil unions. If you doubt this, ask a member of the clergy for a divorce. You will be denied, because members of the clergy have not been granted that authority by the state.

And for their part, CPA is a strikingly odd policy chop shop. Adam Kaufman, the firm's other co-founder, donates generously and often to the Democratic Party and its candidates, and Some is to some extent active with CAMP Rehoboth, a non-profit group that promotes "cooperation and understanding among all people."

At the same time, CPA's web site boasts a derelict "McGreevey Watch" page chronicling and reveling in the former-governor's demise, and Politifax, a weekly electronic newsletter seemingly designed to trumpet Kean's rising political star whenever possible.

To be very clear, the issue is NOT -- repeat NOT -- about anyone's sexual preference, but instead about this breed of political mummers willing to say anything to get elected. Tom Kean, Jr. is connected to the old world GOP by money and his powerful father, ties of blood and fealty not easily shed. If anointed, he may learn all too quickly that this particular road to power ends in powerlessness and the numbing succor of excess.