Re: PA needs help passing Lyme legislation

From: derdrittemann (derdrittemann2003_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/04/04 

Date: 3 Dec 2004 17:10:30 -0800

a_weisman@yahoo.com (A_Weisman) wrote in message news:<e55e6d97.0412021405.6a86f423@posting.google.com>...
> derdrittemann2003@yahoo.com (derdrittemann) wrote in message news:<f2af2263.0412011417.fa45358@posting.google.com>...
>
> "No and importantly they wouldn't listen to you anyway because they
> want to do what they want to do NOT listen to common sense because it
> tells them things they don't want to hear such as there ain't no easy
> answers, there are more difficult ones but let's begin the long hard
> journey with the first step now".

Honestly...I wouldn't listen to me either...but just from a tactical
perspective...forgetting whether you should be even attempting to do
these things in the first place...

...thry should just find a friendly chief of staff or committee
counsel who has your interests at heart and ask them HOW to go about
it...what is the most effective way to reach the objective. Ask them
"what do you think"?

For instance, I would be absolutely STUNNED if any staffer of any of
the elective officials who have been targets of the mass-mailing
"action-alerts" would tell you this is a good thing to do.

I would guess most would tell you that they are either next to
irrelevant...or actually counterproductive...in that these messages
tie up a great deal of a public official's business...and they
actually DO have other items to deal with...

...it's a form of legislative terrorism, in a way...and, speaking from
personal experience...although very sympathetic to the cause of a
group who engaged in this tactic to start with...it can so paralyze an
office that the workers there wind up loathing the group
responsible...no matter how virtuous the cause.

Just simple everyday common sense...but recognizing that politics...as
practiced in virtually every corner of the US...is a game played by
pros...and there is a definite "art" to the game...with a set of
rules...

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