Chuck0 wrote:
> If you want your union to engage in lobbying in DC, there is no
reason why you have to have a multi-million dollar building two
blocks from the White House. You can locate your main
headquarters in some working class town that needs the facility
and the employment, say, Flint, Michigan, and you could set up your
lobbying office in Prince Georges County (MD), Reston (VA), or
Arlington (VA).
This is even more true in the age of the internet and teleconferencing.
And whatever structures are used, should be of a modest and non- ostentatious design.
> There is plenty of public transportation in Washington which your
*lobbyists* can use to get to wherever they need to go on the Hill or
wherever.
Not can, must use. A person taking private transportation to lobby for collective action when collective public transportation is available cannot be taken very seriously.
The problem is the hyperindividualization of Americans and the way they tie up their sense of self-worth in being able to do things in their own way and on their own schedule.
Brian Dauth Queer Buddhist Resister