I owe my friends. After my 2019 TBI and during the pandemic, a time of zero public workshops, SGA friends hired me for private lectures and helped me write three new lobbying manuals. And as I write this, two SGA friends are helping me transition back into public workshop by telling their large email lists …
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A household name organization[1], employing contract lobbyists in dozens of states, just hired me to train its state and national staff in overseeing contractor-provided lobbying services. Home office State Government Affairs (SGA) leadership expects increased involvement with lobbyists and lobbying campaigns: 1) will improve ROIs on lobbying fees and political capital; 2) achieve better, more …
Google “lobbyist” and lobbyists’ ill deeds fill the first several pages of query results. Google’s first non-paid listing is, “The Best Books on Lobbying – Five Books.” I’ve read three of the five, none optimistic for our profession. These results explain the joke, “Don’t tell my mom I’m a lobbyist, she still thinks I’m a piano player in a whorehouse.” [1] I don’t know …
Client is perceived as being not trustworthy (i.e. client broke promise to lawmaker); Client is disliked (i.e. CEO of ABC Bank makes offensive public statement about the legislative process); Client has public image problem (i.e. news media uncovers ABC nursing home provides poor care and overcharges patients…same scenario but it is discovered by a legislative …
