That's true to, but the line blurs with some of the lobby groups. Just as an example, the NRA is not a person, but it does represent its members, who are people. An NRA lobbyist is basically the voice of NRA members in Washington. Now obviously not all lobby groups are like that (a RIAA lobbyist, for instance, represents an industry, which is not a person by any sane definition), but you'd have a real fight on you hands to ban just certain types of lobbyists.
Personally I think we'd better off with no lobbyists at all. In a perfect world, congress members would make their decisions based purely upon what the people who voted for them want, or, in some cases like civil rights, what needs to be done regardless of what voters want. I'm pretty certain that our government would have a far different shape than it does now if that's how things were done. -----Original Message----- From: Eric Roberts [mailto:ow...@threeravensconsulting.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 10:52 AM To: cf-community Subject: RE: change baby! I would disagree...despite what the SCOTUS says, I don't think a corporation is a person and thus does not have the same rights you and I have. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:330334 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
