I meant it in the sense that PG writes about Washington DC here: http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html

In DC the message seems to be that the most important thing is who you know. You want to be an insider. In practice this seems to work much as in LA. There's an A List and you want to be on it or close to those who are. The only difference is how the A List is selected. And even that is not that different.

That's simply how Washington works .. influence is their currency.