My first reaction was identical to your Out.  That is until Esquivel admitted that his vote was bought with the promise that he would receive his reward through the spending bill.  He flipped his promise.  Brown retracted her payment.

It's a great lesson in civics, a process done  thousands of times a year in political America.   If you want to pass a bill you have to 'buy' the votes of those that like to play the middle. 

This is not the graft of Brown or Exquivel, it just another form of standard negotiation to pass legislation.   If you don't like it, then please consider political reform of both parties, not just falling back into partisan arguments.