Citizen Lobbyist

Silence from Senator McCain’s office
Even though ProjectUSA is a pipsqueak organization too poor to buy a representative’s vote, let alone a senator’s, we’ve issued John McCain a public challenge.
We’ve named the stakes, and made the wager. The dispute in question is legitimate, and the public has an interest in the outcome. But every day, […]

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Woman calls and denies getting one

Claiming it wouldn’t allow us to post a billboard “bashing” Senator John McCain, Viacom, the multinational media conglomerate that ranks number four on the list of special interests paying “contributions” to Senator John McCain, used its monopoly on 30-sheet billboards in the Phoenix area to prevent us from displaying a […]

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For those of you collecting examples of the corporate assault on democratic values, you’ll want to include Viacom Outdoor of Phoenix on your list of rogue corporations.
The huge outdoor advertising company, part of multinational mutlimedia multibillion dollar megacorp, Viacom, has decided the public shouldn’t be allowed to see the message “John McCain supports amnesty for […]

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Recently, a reporter asked me what I think is the solution to the immigration problem. Only half joking, I told him we need to make bribery illegal.
Spend a few eye-opening hours sometime searching the lobbying disclosure records on the U.S. Senate’s web site, and you’ll see what I mean.
If you search the records for […]

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A Washington DC construction supervisor told Jerry Kammer of the San
Diego Tribune that since the surge in illegal immigration from Central America to the Washington, DC area began roughly 20 years ago, the pay for installing 4 x 8 panels has dropped from $4.50 per panel to $3.00.
After adjusting for inflation, that’s a […]

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An editorial in Sunday’s New York Times welcomed Republicans arriving in town for the party’s national convention with some free advice on the immigration issue for GOP campaign strategists.
“If the Republicans want to court moderates and appeal to minority voters like Hispanics,” counseled the Times, the party must embrace an amnesty for illegal aliens, or, […]

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Will Utahns swallow Cannon’s claim?

Great American whoppers I
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