From a New York Times story by Eric Lipton and Kenneth P. Vogel headlined “Cigars, Booze, Money: How a Lobbying Blitz Made Sports Betting Ubiquitous”:
Representative John Barker, a cattle breeder, retired judge and chairman of one of the most powerful committees in the Kansas legislature, had a glass of 30-year Redbreast Irish whiskey in his hand and a Don Tomas cigar from Honduras in his mouth.
Both had been passed to him as he entered a party a few blocks from the State Capitol. It was co-sponsored by lobbyists who had recently turned to Mr. Barker for help legalizing sports betting in Kansas.