Larry, your repeated demands for SPECIFICs reveal a profound lack of knowledge about lobbying in Washington. Having worked a bit with lobbyists in Washington, I'll try to fill you in.
As I posted earlier, most effective lobbying happens, not in televised committee meetings or public events, but in one-on-one private conversations between organization lobbyists and members or their legislative aides. They meet in offices, in corridors, in cafeterias, restaurants, private homes, on golf courses, wherever. Even in the lobbies from which the name of their profession is derived.
In these conversations, lobbyists argue for their organizations' policies, working to influence legislation or win votes. And, except perhaps for Jack Abramoff, they operate largely off the public radar screen.
The IWLA has lobbyists in DC. They do their job, meeting with politicians and arguing for IWLA national policies,
including the gun rights policies I posted earlier.
To my knowledge, there are no public and SPECIFIC reports from IWLA lobbyists about whom they see and what they say. Are you suggesting that IWLA lobbyists are
not talking to legislators and
not supporting national policy?
