Investigators also found Chavez-DeRemer did not report the tickets, valued at approximately $100 a piece, as she was required to do, despite having completed ethics training explaining government policy on accepting gifts.
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Andrea Hsu,
NPR,
4 Sep. 2026
Those gifts included rodeo tickets, an alligator wallet and two cowboy hats, according to the report.
Not bad for someone who started blogging out of a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf location on Sunset Boulevard, where stars came to him to say hello, trade gossip and get in his good graces.
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Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Sep. 2026
The region’s attitudes toward hospitality are a natural outgrowth of these broader social graces.
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