Anonymous
Post 08/19/2014 22:18     Subject: Re:Lobbyist friend just told me his salary. Wow!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How do you get a job as a lobbyist? What kind of background/experience do you need?



I want to know this too, someone please answer this.


Hill/Agency experience.
Contacts.
Policy expertise
Ability (if in a firm setting) to monetize to attract clients
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2014 22:09     Subject: Re:Lobbyist friend just told me his salary. Wow!
Anonymous wrote:How do you get a job as a lobbyist? What kind of background/experience do you need?



I want to know this too, someone please answer this.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2014 22:04     Subject: Lobbyist friend just told me his salary. Wow!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DH is a lobbyist and earns in this range. He's extremely good at his job and works incessantly so it is well earned.


I'm an elementary school principal at a Title I school. I'm very good at my job and work incessantly. Will you advocate for me to make $750K? Do you think I deserve it?


Yes!!!


That's what the NEA is for! They have lobbyists. If they aren't representing your interests well, you should spearhead a change of leadership.


Sorry, but the NEA doesn't represent principals.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2014 21:58     Subject: Lobbyist friend just told me his salary. Wow!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why is it soul selling to specialize in helping people advocate for their own interests? The Alzheimer's Assn has lobbyists. The Toy Makers Assn has lobbyists. The Boys and Girls Clubs of America has lobbyists. The World Wildlife Fund has lobbyists. The Obama White House has government-paid lobbyists!!! A whole office full of them whose only job - only job, people! - is to sell (advocate for) the President's agenda (or fight against stuff he opposes) on the Hill.

Are they all whores too? Even the tree huggers and Girl Scouts and Alzheimer's lobbyists?


No, just you.


Ooo. Ya got me.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2014 19:04     Subject: Lobbyist friend just told me his salary. Wow!
Anonymous wrote:Why is it soul selling to specialize in helping people advocate for their own interests? The Alzheimer's Assn has lobbyists. The Toy Makers Assn has lobbyists. The Boys and Girls Clubs of America has lobbyists. The World Wildlife Fund has lobbyists. The Obama White House has government-paid lobbyists!!! A whole office full of them whose only job - only job, people! - is to sell (advocate for) the President's agenda (or fight against stuff he opposes) on the Hill.

Are they all whores too? Even the tree huggers and Girl Scouts and Alzheimer's lobbyists?


No, just you.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2014 18:47     Subject: Lobbyist friend just told me his salary. Wow!
Anonymous wrote:God bless America.


truly!
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2014 17:56     Subject: Lobbyist friend just told me his salary. Wow!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DH is a lobbyist and earns in this range. He's extremely good at his job and works incessantly so it is well earned.


I'm an elementary school principal at a Title I school. I'm very good at my job and work incessantly. Will you advocate for me to make $750K? Do you think I deserve it?

yes. your profession adds value.


I'm sorry, folks, that's not how our economic system works. I know people who earn a lot of money and most of them work very hard. However, being good at a job and working really hard on something that is very important is quite separate from how much money you get paid.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2014 17:44     Subject: Lobbyist friend just told me his salary. Wow!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DH is a lobbyist and earns in this range. He's extremely good at his job and works incessantly so it is well earned.


I'm an elementary school principal at a Title I school. I'm very good at my job and work incessantly. Will you advocate for me to make $750K? Do you think I deserve it?

yes. your profession adds value.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2014 17:37     Subject: Lobbyist friend just told me his salary. Wow!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DH is a lobbyist and earns in this range. He's extremely good at his job and works incessantly so it is well earned.


I'm an elementary school principal at a Title I school. I'm very good at my job and work incessantly. Will you advocate for me to make $750K? Do you think I deserve it?


Yes!!!


That's what the NEA is for! They have lobbyists. If they aren't representing your interests well, you should spearhead a change of leadership.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2014 17:31     Subject: Lobbyist friend just told me his salary. Wow!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DH is a lobbyist and earns in this range. He's extremely good at his job and works incessantly so it is well earned.


I'm an elementary school principal at a Title I school. I'm very good at my job and work incessantly. Will you advocate for me to make $750K? Do you think I deserve it?


Yes!!!
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2014 17:17     Subject: Lobbyist friend just told me his salary. Wow!
Anonymous wrote:DH is a lobbyist and earns in this range. He's extremely good at his job and works incessantly so it is well earned.


I'm an elementary school principal at a Title I school. I'm very good at my job and work incessantly. Will you advocate for me to make $750K? Do you think I deserve it?
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2014 17:10     Subject: Lobbyist friend just told me his salary. Wow!
Why is it soul selling to specialize in helping people advocate for their own interests? The Alzheimer's Assn has lobbyists. The Toy Makers Assn has lobbyists. The Boys and Girls Clubs of America has lobbyists. The World Wildlife Fund has lobbyists. The Obama White House has government-paid lobbyists!!! A whole office full of them whose only job - only job, people! - is to sell (advocate for) the President's agenda (or fight against stuff he opposes) on the Hill.

Are they all whores too? Even the tree huggers and Girl Scouts and Alzheimer's lobbyists?
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2014 17:01     Subject: Re:Lobbyist friend just told me his salary. Wow!
Anonymous wrote:Wayne lapierre of the NRA makes $972k.

All he has to do is show up after a school massacre and say the problem is that there aren't enough guns.

If you can be feckless enough to be the gun lobby's lapdog you can make a good living.



That is some plastic surgery gone way way wrong. Yuck.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2014 16:55     Subject: Re:Lobbyist friend just told me his salary. Wow!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wayne lapierre of the NRA makes $972k.

All he has to do is show up after a school massacre and say the problem is that there aren't enough guns.

If you can be feckless enough to be the gun lobby's lapdog you can make a good living.



There is also this guy who compared tobacco to lettuce. He is a sweetheart...



And of course plutocrats like these employs these whores willing to sell their credibility and reputation to advance a point of view no matter how decrepit. They have long advocated for the end of the EPA and the right of corporations to pollute the environment to their hearts' content.



Whores, line up to get your crumbs.


The trade in political influence for money. Lobbyists, the errand boys of plutocrats

Anonymous
Post 08/18/2014 21:37     Subject: Lobbyist friend just told me his salary. Wow!
DH is a lobbyist and earns in this range. He's extremely good at his job and works incessantly so it is well earned.