You are here. Your policy goals are ............. there.

How to get there from here?

If you're interested in process, there's this excellent Sunlight Foundation guide to Congress which can help guide you to the committees of interest. And if you want to get in on policy, you want to get in at the committee level; a lot has been decided and given away long before the typical bill makes it to the floor.

No one in your state on the relevant committees? You could get involved with an organization that keeps state-specific, or even congressional district-specific, mailing and contact lists to mobilize people who do have the desired ZIP codes and agree with you on policy, before the floor vote and general mobilization are called for. What? The organizations you're involved with don't do this? You could always attempt to prod them, gently, with something pointy.

I make some assumptions in this. For one, that you're keen on what, for lack of a clearer term, we could call the Public Interest. Good policy that benefits the many, has no cohesive constituency, and is probably against the narrow, financial interests of the few. I assume that your resources and probably time are also fairly limited, otherwise, you could just start your own lobbying firm.

So given those assumptions, we always come around to the question of tone and attitude. In translation: how nice are you supposed to be? This question is naturally contentious as a m*f*er.

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You are here. Your policy goals are ............. there.

How to get there from here?

If you're interested in process, there's this excellent Sunlight Foundation guide to Congress which can help guide you to the committees of interest. And if you want to get in on policy, you want to get in at the committee level; a lot has been decided and given away long before the typical bill makes it to the floor.

No one in your state on the relevant committees? You could get involved with an organization that keeps state-specific, or even congressional district-specific, mailing and contact lists to mobilize people who do have the desired ZIP codes and agree with you on policy, before the floor vote and general mobilization are called for. What? The organizations you're involved with don't do this? You could always attempt to prod them, gently, with something pointy.

I make some assumptions in this. For one, that you're keen on what, for lack of a clearer term, we could call the Public Interest. Good policy that benefits the many, has no cohesive constituency, and is probably against the narrow, financial interests of the few. I assume that your resources and probably time are also fairly limited, otherwise, you could just start your own lobbying firm.

So given those assumptions, we always come around to the question of tone and attitude. This question is naturally contentious as a m*f*er.

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Dennis Kucinich won the Independent Primary vote that was concluded this week.

Final Democratic Party Voting

Kucinich 61,477 76.7%
Edwards 7,614 9.5%
Obama 3,847 4.8%
Clinton 2,084 2.6%
Gravel 1,844 2.3%
Richardson 1,522 1.9%
Biden 1,323 1.7%
Dodd 442 0.5%
TOTAL 80,153 100%

Final Republican Party Voting

Paul 23,524 93%
Huckabee 426 1.8%
McCain 270 1.2%
Giuliani 261 1.0%
Thompson 207 0.8%
Tancredo 189 0.7%
Hunter 183 0.7%

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The Grassroots Are Rising!!

Dennis Kucinich has, of course, long been ignored or dismissed by the U.S. Corporate Mainstream Media (guess whose side they're on-?),  and even more remarkably, sneered at by some so-called"Democrats" who would clearly benefit by all of his policy proposals (as we all would) much more so than any other candidate in the race.

Despite this, people are starting to really catch on!

Kucinich, the one guy in the Washington with the sense of integrity to actually care about the U.S. Constitution, and call for Impeachment of (master War-Criminal, War-Profiteer) Dick Cheney, and who offers in this Election real solutions for the Country (not halfway measures) to the great problems of Health Care, and ending the Iraq tragedy, is now starting to receive a groundswell of public support that is long overdue.

The latest Rasmussen Report places support for Dennis Kucinich in New Hamspire at 7% and moving upward in a crowded field.

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