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What was meant to be a joke became an embarrassment for a bank executive and one city's chamber of commerce, when the executive bid $1 in a fundraising auction for dinner with Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco — and won.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-blanco14dec14,1,214149.story
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"The auctioneer closed the bid very rapidly," Edmunds said. "Several others wanted to bid, but they didn't have the opportunity to do so."
Seems to me that the auctioneer was more at fault than the bank exec who bid $1. Why doesn't the article seem to talk about that more?

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