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A lovely montage. I would like to compliment our videographer for a job well done picking up the nuances of our well coiffed congressman. I’m all for changing the name to “Hard-on for Randy”,but that does limit us.
You know the question is about lobbyists is a very fair question: why didn’t he just answer it? He could argue that lobbyists inform about the issues, for example (I used to know a lobbyist and that’s what she claimed).
I think the reason he didn’t answer it directly was that it was phrased in an way that gave him a quick out. IIRC, the questioner quoted from a NYT story that said Kuhl got concert tickets with a lobbyist in order to circumvent the lobbying law. Kuhl latched onto that and denied circumventing any law. A smart politician like Kuhl will quibble with the details of a question unless it is phrased very carefully.
If the focus were moved from circumventing law to the propriety of having lobbyists buy expensive perks like concert tickets, the question might have had more impact. This is a tough one because campaign financing is a morass of details. Perhaps: “Rep Kuhl, I recently read that you’re using lobbyists to pay for perks like Bob Seger concert tickets. I hope you pledge that in the future you’ll stop letting lobbyists pay for perks that cost more than a reasonable lunch or dinner, say $40. What do you think?”
Should’ve said hello to me guys…i’m the one in the wheelchair
Didn’t know at the time… will do next time Peter
Awesome.
Nice. Between this and a couple other suggestions you had, I say you should set up a service for improving questions before every townhall meeting.
You could have a simple web page where the poorly framed question is at the top. They click a button, and your reframe appears at the bottom. Their credit card is charged $5, and our democracy is a little sounder as a result. Win-win.