[51879] in Cypherpunks
Re: Lawz to be.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Strasheim)
Sun Mar 10 20:12:21 1996
From: Alex Strasheim <cp@proust.suba.com>
To: mab@crypto.com (Matt Blaze)
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 19:05:54 -0600 (CST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: alex@suba.com
In-Reply-To: <199603110020.TAA22441@crypto.com> from "Matt Blaze" at Mar 10, 96 07:20:07 pm
Matt Blaze said,
> ...but based on discussions I've had with various Senate staffers,
> I'm not optimistic that it will be.
> If you feel strongly about this, I urge you to lobby your Senators
> (and representatives, since there's also a House version of the bill) and
> tell them exactly what you like and don't like about this legislation, as
> I am doing with mine.
It sounds like you're making much better contact with your representatives
than I've ever been able to make with mine. Whenever I call or write I
have the impression that I'm just talking with a receptionist who either
does nothing with my comment or just puts it on a tally sheet of some
kind.
Do you know something about lobbying that I don't? Or do your Senators'
staffers know about your reputation as an expert who ought to be listened
to? When you call up a Senator's office, who do you ask to speak to?
How do you find out which staffer would carry the ball on a particular
issue?
I'm sure we'd all make the effort to lobby if we felt it was making a
difference.
