PHOENIX (AP) – The 2024 presidential election is drawing an unusually robust field of independent, third party and long shot candidates hoping to capitalize on Americans’ ambivalence and frustration over a likely rematch between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump.

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    1 year ago

    Wrong and wrong. I know and work with several registered lobbyists, as well as people who do occasional environmental lobbying. To say you’re completely and utterly misinformed (on both points) would be an understatement.

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      1 year ago

      you knowing lobbyists changes what? Are they registered with organizations that are doing no political contributions? The fact that they’re registered lobbyists is kind of what I’ve been talking about, you came in talking about how I want to make it a crime to meet with my representative. Im not a lobbyist, I don’t represent any organization, I dont have a political fund to influence my representative.

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        Are they registered with organizations that are doing no political contributions?

        Yes. Novel idea, I know. That’s the kind of information you learn from experience, rather than gut hunches and the news media.

        you came in talking about how I want to make it a crime to meet with my representative.

        And you said exactly that. The kind of activity that a colleague of mine does to advocate for clean rivers would be illegal. Not my fault you used sweeping generalizations that don’t reflect reality.

        Im not a lobbyist, I don’t represent any organization, I dont have a political fund to influence my representative.

        Yet you are legally allowed to lobby your elected representatives.