The brazen corruption of the sitting president and his administration is something I never would have imagined. Low lives, crooks, gangsters are able to turn our democracy into facism?
The brazen corruption of the sitting president and his administration is something I never would have imagined. Low lives, crooks, gangsters are able to turn our democracy into facism?
The members of Congress need to hear, frequently, from enough of their constituents to overwhelm what they hear, daily or weekly, from their professional lobbyists and wealthy sponsors.
While there of thousands or registered lobbyists in and around the halls of Congress, each member of Congress only has to contend with the fifty-to-a-hundred or so who are assigned to him/her by their sponsors. Lobbying is an actual carefully orchestrated system, devised to avoid chaos among lobbyists and to keep the sponsors’ messages focused upon their “mark”.
Repetition of the messages is an important success factor. Most of the constituents who aren’t professional lobbyists never contact their representatives in Congress. Those who do make contact via mail, email, phone calls or in-person visits do so only once or a very few times. That’s understandable because most constituents have their own lives to live with their related responsibilities.
Lobbyists, on the other hand, are paid to conduct their daily or weekly performances. Every contact by mail, email, phone call, personal contact counts as a kind of informal vote for or against any particular issue. Members of Congress are supposed to address the most frequently mentioned issues.
One, two or a dozen contacts from several thousand constituents can override the repetitive contacts from the professional lobbyists. To keep their jobs, members of Congress need the votes of thousands of constituents— not those of 50-100 lobbyists.
I didn’t invent this. I didn’t learn this in school or in the mass media. That’s an important message that I got from Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, when I visited his office, before he retired.
The brazen corruption of the sitting president and his administration is something I never would have imagined. Low lives, crooks, gangsters are able to turn our democracy into facism?
Where are the “adults” in Congress?
We need members of Congress to stand OUR ground!!!
The members of Congress need to hear, frequently, from enough of their constituents to overwhelm what they hear, daily or weekly, from their professional lobbyists and wealthy sponsors.
While there of thousands or registered lobbyists in and around the halls of Congress, each member of Congress only has to contend with the fifty-to-a-hundred or so who are assigned to him/her by their sponsors. Lobbying is an actual carefully orchestrated system, devised to avoid chaos among lobbyists and to keep the sponsors’ messages focused upon their “mark”.
Repetition of the messages is an important success factor. Most of the constituents who aren’t professional lobbyists never contact their representatives in Congress. Those who do make contact via mail, email, phone calls or in-person visits do so only once or a very few times. That’s understandable because most constituents have their own lives to live with their related responsibilities.
Lobbyists, on the other hand, are paid to conduct their daily or weekly performances. Every contact by mail, email, phone call, personal contact counts as a kind of informal vote for or against any particular issue. Members of Congress are supposed to address the most frequently mentioned issues.
One, two or a dozen contacts from several thousand constituents can override the repetitive contacts from the professional lobbyists. To keep their jobs, members of Congress need the votes of thousands of constituents— not those of 50-100 lobbyists.
I didn’t invent this. I didn’t learn this in school or in the mass media. That’s an important message that I got from Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, when I visited his office, before he retired.
He also said, tell this to everyone you know.