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MY VIEW
Advocacy Is Not a Dirty Word
Lobbying has increasingly become a dirty word. It is associated with backroom deals negotiated by those with lots of money. It is unseemly, made all the more ugly by the likes of the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Yet Americans have fought wars to defend our constitutional right to lobby. The First Amendment says it is "the right of the...