Being asked for input does not necessarily create any
difference at all in the legality of lobbying by the
usma. If this were the key, then of course any group
could circumvent the law through having friends in
Congress ask them, ask them, again and again, for
input.
I am perfectly serious in asking whether the mythology
here in the list about whether the usma may lobby is
based on something some lawyer told this group. Or
else, I am eager to run down the myths here. Where
does it come from?
If the usma wants to lay out a course of action, with
step #1,2,3,4, and our whole plan from here to
complete metrication, and if the usma wants to spend
usma money in promoting this plan, lobbying per se,
urging others to lobby, selling the plan, lobbying
right now in behalf of Ehlers bill this summer, etc.,
there is nothing in the law to stop the usma.
Actually, there is nothing in the law to stop the usma
from doing anything at all in behalf of metrication
which there is any chance we might want to do.
Please. I am tired of fighting some imaginary foe. I
want the name of whoever told you guys these silly
silly things.
--- Barbara and/or Bill Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Recently I wrote:
>
> > Since the USMA was asked for their input, it is
> not called
> > lobbying BY THE LAW.
>
> I think I would have been more accurate to say:
>
> "... it is not kind of lobbying prohibited by the
> law."
>
> Bill Hooper
>
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