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Feb 14, 2019 • Nobody said legislative leadership was going to be easy –the Speaker and the President cannot avoid conflict; they must confront it, resolve it, and take the blame for it. from 4th Edition of Lobbying on a Shoestring. Chapter 3 of Lobbying explores the decision making dynamic in legislative bodies from State Houses to city counsels...
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Jan 30, 2019 • We go a letter from Lew Finfer. “This is the 50th Anniversary of the disastrous to Dorchester and Mattapan program called the Boston Banks Urban Renewal Group (BBURG). This program that ran from 1968-1972 was supposed to enable African-Americans to buy homes after a century+ of housing discrimination largely prevented that. However, it instead became...
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Jan 26, 2019 • “So organizers started to do something about it. On Jan. 25, 1969 — just days after Governor Francis W. Sargent’s inauguration — the 2,000 people gathered on the State House stairs to protest the highway. The governor’s son, Francis W. “Bill” Sargent Jr., joined them. In December 1970, Sargent declared a moratorium on the highway...
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Jan 16, 2019 • You are a dog food manufacturer and you are very proud of your product. But it is not selling. You have called together your entire sales force in one room. You make a speech and ask for sincere feedback. “Our dog food has the finest ingredients, it is packaged in the most colorful attractive cans...
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Jan 15, 2019 • You have made detailed plans – delegations from 10 different communities from all over the state have hired buses, posted pictures in the local press, notified their legislative delegations they are coming. You’ve been lobbying this bill for 4 years. Last year you found yourself in competition with a pro life demonstration on the front...
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Jan 14, 2019 • “We are in a crisis,” said City Councilor Lydia Edwards, the plan’s lead sponsor along with Councilor Kim Janey. “That we are suffering in one of the biggest booms in the history of our city is unacceptable.” In the thick of an affordable housing crisis that has taken hold across Greater Boston, city councilors have...
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Jan 10, 2019 • The U.S. Senate last month unanimously passed a bill that would explicitly make lynching a federal crime. Not everyone, however, is pleased with passage of the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act.Liberty Counsel, an evangelical nonprofit that opposes gay rights, and its chairman, Mat Staver, are taking issue with the bill’s inclusion of LGBTQ people....
Remember the Hero Opportunity? A compelling problem or crisis that provides policymakers with public occasions to be the champion of a solution that makes a positive difference in the lives of a critical mass of their constituents/customers. From Chapter 2 of the 4th Edition of Lobbying on a Shoestring
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Dec 15, 2018 • “Rejoice, Massachusetts taxpayers. You’ll have a bit more money in your paychecks come January, and, if state assumptions are correct, another long-awaited reprieve — with potentially bigger budget ramifications — could follow…….. Chip Faulkner, associate director of Citizens for Limited Taxation, which pushed the ballot question. “Either you win or you lose. But this one...
I don’t think many people use power points any more unless they are briefing the President, but many folk learning the basic principles of advocacy have learned something from this one. Try it. you can find other helpful tools here let us know how you like it. This power point was developed from the book...
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Nov 11, 2018 • NEW LAW WILL BOLSTER CIVICS EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS Rep. Andy Vargas, a Haverhill Democrat who joined the House after winning a special election last year, visited the State House for the first time eight years ago as a high school student to lobby for a version of the bill. He gave his first speech as...
So, public policy advocates, what are you doing tomorrow? Planning to promote positive policy change in your state? You will find keys to building a winning public policy campaign in this little book Lobbying on a Shoestring Check out the introduction outlining the three rules of Lobbying and the Hero Opportunity
