I just broke a story for the Rocky Mountain News about an eyebrow-raising fundraiser being put on for Sen. Hillary Clinton. ESA president Doug Lowenstein and Steve Schnur, Worldwide Executive of Music for Electronic Arts, are co-hosting the intimate $1,000-a-plate affair to raise money for the Friends of Hillary Clinton.

Ironically, the Sept. 14 breakfast at a D.C hotel comes two months to the day after Clinton took the video game industry to task for "stealing the innocence of our children" and called for a federal investigation into the discovery of hidden sex in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

It sounds like the industry is finally starting to lobby in a painfully awkward and ham-fisted kinda way.

Video-game execs playing up to Clinton [Rocky Mountain News]

What do you need to attach to your NES to attract your local Metro SWAT unit to your house?

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