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Look who the Republicans are honoring!

Marlene Baldwin knows business.

She learned from the best business minds in the country. Chief executive officers. Business owners. The rich and famous.

And not at any snobby East Coast business school. We're talking up close and personal. Whispered in the ear, in some cases.

So it comes as no surprise that Baldwin has been named California Businessman of the Year by the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Surprise would better describe the reaction by the Republicans when they found out how Baldwin came to know so much about business.

Fifteen years as the most famous brothel madam in San Francisco.

Family values!