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Blackhatjack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 11:05 AM
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How it's DONE! Find out when the Senator is meeting with the Lobbyists & SHOW UP UNINVITED, ASK Qs
Find out when and where the Senator will be meeting with various interested Lobbyists, show up, ask questions, make notes of who attends, check who they are affiliated with and how much $$ they are contributing, and for fun how much $$ they are paid to keep the plates spinning for their clients.

It would not take too long to gather a rather long list.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/08/sen-johnny-isaksons-shady_n_227428.html

Sen. Johnny Isakson's Shady Dinner With Lobbyists: Crashing The Party

"Just for fun, the Huffington Post decided Tuesday night to crash a dinner party for Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.). It was one of many fundraisers happening every day for different politicians around town. The event's location was listed on the Sunlight Foundation's website, www.politicalpartytime.org, as a townhouse just a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol.

The three-story red brick house, appraised at over $1.3 million, is owned by Mark Curry, according to the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue. Curry is chairman of the board of the Online Lenders Alliance, a trade group for Internet payday lenders. The Sunlight Foundation calls this building the "OLA Townhouse."

This reporter arrived at the same time as John Greene of the National Association of Health Underwriters, which has a lobbying income of $250,000 so far in 2009, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. (Isakson is a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.) Two young women from Polaris Government Relations, a lobbying firm, greeted us at the door and invited us both inside. After introductions, the Huffington Post was disinvited."

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Kalyke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 11:12 AM
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1. Since we pay their salaries, I think it's only fitting we see what
they're doing in our names.
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FredStembottom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 11:16 AM
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2. Cell phones! Cell Phones!
They all seem to have cameras now......

Let's start showing up in numbers at all kinds of Senators' doors (state and federal)and begin snapping cell phone pix of everyone entering and leaving.

Total Senate Awareness.

Snap, snap snap. Everyday, every metting, every entrance and exit.

Photo-Swarm!
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nc4bo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 11:28 AM
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3. How does one go about finding out where their elected officials are
participating in fundraisers?

It's not like these events are announced in commercials during the 6 o'clock news you know?

I could see crashing such events being extremely educational.

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