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All Lobbyists are bloodsuckers. Why not exterminate the vermin? They are not for the people at any time. What is their VALUE to us?

Posted - January 23, 2020

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  • 34673
    How would we eliminate them?

    Lobbyists are needed. They are simply people who are educated on a specific issue and try to persuade a politician to support their side of an issue. 

    Planned Parenthood/National Right to Life are BOTH lobbyists.
    AARP are lobbyists. 
    Everytown for Gun Safety/NRA are lobbyists

    There are lobbyists on every side of every issue. We need make sure they are working within the rules...no bribery etc. 
      January 23, 2020 6:06 AM MST
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  • 44704
    Persuade = bribe.
      January 23, 2020 12:26 PM MST
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  • 34673
    No....persuade  = educated, explained to convince a person to agree. 
      January 23, 2020 12:42 PM MST
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  • 6023
    I'll add to my2cents comments, this:

    The Right to petition (aka "lobby") our government officials is guaranteed in the First Amendment.

    One of the reasons we rebelled as colonists, was that the government refused to honor that right.

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_petition_in_the_United_States

    In 1776, the Declaration of Independence cited King George's perceived failure to redress the grievances listed in colonial petitions, such as the Olive Branch Petition of 1775, as a justification to declare independence:

    In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

      January 23, 2020 7:30 AM MST
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  • 44704
    Dang...we actually agree on something.
      January 23, 2020 12:27 PM MST
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