Advocates of the law devised a plan to sell legislators' office furniture to raise money, notably the love seat of Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, a staunch opponent of the law, as well as desks, sofas and other furnishings of Salvatore F. DiMasi, the House majority leader, and Mr. Wagner, who was the House elections laws chairman until this year.
6. Refuse to let people do their jobs, then punish them for it For example, hire someone to be your legislative director, then forbid them from calling certain legislators' offices directly, and then give them low marks on their evaluation for not developing those relationships.
Supporters have been preparing a lobbying push, including door-to-door campaigning, phone calls and town-hall-style meetings in crucial districts, as well as visits to legislators' offices.
His plan came under attack, though, as an advertising campaign and thousands of faxes and calls to legislators' offices called it an undue burden on small and medium-sized businesses and a drag on the state's economy.
Arkansas's "Reading Recovery" programme provides tutoring for poor children in more than 20% of the state's schools and, the report says, has helped 86% of these youngsters to read as well as their classmates.The report's authors are now making the rounds of their state legislators' offices, publicising the dismal statistics.
From the women's march, to the airport protests, to the remarkable constituent pressure at town halls and at legislators' offices over health care, and now the flurry of protests following white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, this year is proving to be a high-water mark for grass-roots activism.
Then, we need to take it to the airwaves, the Internet and our legislators' offices on Capitol Hill.
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), the bill's author, attempted to sweeten its appeal by delivering pumpkin pies to more than 50 legislators' offices Thursday morning.
"We have staff at the AFL-CIO, SEIU, Basic Rights Oregon, the Urban League of Portland, the secretary of state, the governor's office, three or four legislators' offices, several county commissioners' offices".
What happens instead is that the money used by industry lobbyists doesn't just go to candidates' campaign funds; it's used to pay lobbyists to make visits to legislators' offices, or to set up "informational briefings" for congressional staff.
Distinguished guests from legislators' offices and former La Cañada Flintridge mayors packed Olberz Park alongside city staffers, business leaders and residents who turned out to see the new digs at 1 Civic Center Drive and take free public tours, complete with commemorative goody bags.
