sounds suspiciously like what the DEMOCRATS did in offering special dispensations to a certain official (last name initial J seems to ring a bell) whose reelection was funded by the Republican party and Republican backers on the assumption that he was and intended to remain a Republican as he was running on a Republican ticket, if he would switch sides or become an Independant and block vote with them.
"could be interpreted as a bribe" covers a lot of ground.

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