Comment by anthuswilliams
3 hours ago
That's literally what 90% of lobbying is. Powerpoint presentations to Congressional staffers, econometrics research publications, policy panels and conferences, and so on. Not everything is campaign donations and super PACs.
you can be good law obeying citizen 99% of the time and in 1% of the time bribe someone to do illegal things. what's your point with 90%?
Why any lobbyists should have 1:1 time with a politician, what are they hiding?
Why any lobbyists should have 1:1 time with a politician, what are they hiding?
For one thing because it’s a right in the First Amendment, there next to freedom of religion and speech.
If you have a grievance, you have a right to petition to have it redressed. Like other rights recognized in the Constitution, courts have interpreted it broadly, to include such things as a right for a private citizen to meet 1:1 with a willing public citizen.