We’ve Got A Lot To Learn About “Spontaneous” Engagement
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
A lot of the news the last week or so has been on citizens going to the town hall meetings of their representatives and sharing their input on the issues that are being worked on in Washington, D.C. Because most of that input isn’t fitting in with what those in charge of Washington, D.C.’s process want to hear – they are attempting to discredit the input as being inappropriate or perhaps staged by forces beyond the normal Joe Sixpack getting involved.
Thanks to the work of the Nevada Policy Research Institute’s on-the-scene reporting from Las Vegas this week, we can see how we are supposed to go about our involvement in giving at least one of the U.S. Senators who represent us our input.
The questions of our elected leaders related to the integrity of those who don’t agree with their point of view signal something far greater than the specifics of a single issue. As noted here, it goes to the heart of who is working for who?
A lot of the news the last week or so has been on citizens going to the town hall meetings of their representatives and sharing their input on the issues that are being worked on in Washington, D.C. Because most of that input isn’t fitting in with what those in charge of Washington, D.C.’s process want to hear – they are attempting to discredit the input as being inappropriate or perhaps staged by forces beyond the normal Joe Sixpack getting involved.
Thanks to the work of the Nevada Policy Research Institute’s on-the-scene reporting from Las Vegas this week, we can see how we are supposed to go about our involvement in giving at least one of the U.S. Senators who represent us our input.
The questions of our elected leaders related to the integrity of those who don’t agree with their point of view signal something far greater than the specifics of a single issue. As noted here, it goes to the heart of who is working for who?
Posted by Doug Busselman at 8/14/2009 9:40 AM 
Categories: Government
Tags: AstroTurf Citizen Involvement Town Hall Meetings
Categories: Government
Tags: AstroTurf Citizen Involvement Town Hall Meetings
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