Pelosi Targets Grassroots Freedom of Speech
House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) has pledged to take up a lobbying reform proposal that would impose new regulations on speech by grassroots organizations, while providing a loophole in the rules for large corporations and labor unions.
The legislation would make changes to the legal definition of "grassroots lobbying" and require any organization that encourages 500 or more members of the general public to contact their elected representatives to file a report with detailed information about their organization to the government on a quarterly basis.
The report would include identifying the organization's expenditures, the issues focused on and the members of Congress and other federal officials who are the subject of the advocacy efforts. A separate report would be required for each policy issue the group is active on.
"Right now, grassroots groups don't have to report at all if they are communicating with the public," said Dick Dingman of the Free Speech Coalition, Inc. "This is an effort that would become a major attack on the 1st Amendment."
Amanda B. Carpenter
Our incoming fascist Speaker is wasting no time in bringing the hammer down. I'm sure she'll be happily abetted in this effort by her brother fascist in the Senate, John McCain. They'll note it as a "bi-partisan" effort, so it will be okay.
Under the legislation being considered, a comment by any one of us on the BP with regard to contacting a Congress-critter could require us to file a report with the government.
This is, of course, the next logical step for an oligarchy emboldened by their success with CFR. Of all the lame things Bush has done in the last six years, signing CFR into law was probably the most detrimental in the long run. Thanks, George.
The legislation would make changes to the legal definition of "grassroots lobbying" and require any organization that encourages 500 or more members of the general public to contact their elected representatives to file a report with detailed information about their organization to the government on a quarterly basis.
The report would include identifying the organization's expenditures, the issues focused on and the members of Congress and other federal officials who are the subject of the advocacy efforts. A separate report would be required for each policy issue the group is active on.
"Right now, grassroots groups don't have to report at all if they are communicating with the public," said Dick Dingman of the Free Speech Coalition, Inc. "This is an effort that would become a major attack on the 1st Amendment."
Amanda B. Carpenter
Our incoming fascist Speaker is wasting no time in bringing the hammer down. I'm sure she'll be happily abetted in this effort by her brother fascist in the Senate, John McCain. They'll note it as a "bi-partisan" effort, so it will be okay.
Under the legislation being considered, a comment by any one of us on the BP with regard to contacting a Congress-critter could require us to file a report with the government.
This is, of course, the next logical step for an oligarchy emboldened by their success with CFR. Of all the lame things Bush has done in the last six years, signing CFR into law was probably the most detrimental in the long run. Thanks, George.
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