Environmental Working Group, Gary Hirshberg And Organic Activists - All The Influence Money Can Buy

Thursday, August 27, 2015 - 10:10 in Mathematics & Economics

My husband is used to hearing snark about being a lobbyist. As the owner of a lobbying firm in Chicago, he takes most derogatory comments about his profession in stride. So imagine my surprise when he became outraged reading aloud a boilerplate description of Washington lobbyists in our daughter’s new high school textbook:In reality, many lobbyists in Washington are ‘fixers’ who offer to influence government policies for a price. Their personal connections help to open doors to allow their paying clients to ‘just get a chance to talk’ with top officials.There was more to get his Irish up: read more

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