Three Things Your Group Needs to be Effective: Lists, Money, and People!

If You Aren’t Spending Much of Your Time Developing These Things, You’re Making a Mistake! If you have been involved in politics for any length of time, you have likely seen many activists come and go. Oftentimes, when their legislative projects do not come to fruition in the first year, many well-meaning activists throw up Read more about Three Things Your Group Needs to be Effective: Lists, Money, and People![…]

It’s Not Over Until It’s Over — When They Threaten Your Bill, It’s Time to Fight Back

Use these tactics to jump in the legislative mud-pit and start swinging! “It’s hopeless, the whip count shows us down 11 votes and we’re just a week out from the vote.” This was the text message I received last year from our bill sponsor in the legislature in Missouri, eight days before the one-day veto Read more about It’s Not Over Until It’s Over — When They Threaten Your Bill, It’s Time to Fight Back[…]

People Come and They Go –- So What?

If you work in confrontational politics at a high level for any length of time, you will lose friends. Expect it. People get involved in politics for different reasons. Maybe a legislator angered them or perhaps there was an issue that really fired them up, so they got involved in local or state politics for Read more about People Come and They Go –- So What?[…]