Who wants to sign up as the first ever crowd funded, open source lobbyist? I'd do it myself, but I'm not American.
I will pay you £5 though. Get another 100,000 like me and you're making a cool £500,000 gross. Just be sure to properly document what you're doing and what you intend to do.
I'll also give you £5 worth of slush money to grease palms and what not.
And if you meet certain objectives and milestones, I may even give you a £5 bonus at the end of the year.
Hell, I'll even give you £1 to give to every member of congress you secure, and £2 for every president you get!! (serving presidents only).
All these numbers are in Pounds Sterling. Do the math.
You'd also land your lobbyist in jail pretty quick. I'm fairly certain it's more than a little illegal (on the order of treason) to accept foreign money to influence congress.
Yeah, this isn't true. It just means the lobbyist would have to register as a foreign agent lobbyist if it was lobbying on behalf of a foreign interest. It's totally legal to accept foreign money to influence congress. And as a result of citizens united, they can even run ads in support of candidates and campaigns. China too, is a person with a first amendment right!
You could, but don't be too successful or its off with your head when political winds shift. Isreal has subconscious influence over this country. You might have heard the words "holy" and Isreal in a song played in the US in December... 50 million times and delivered as sermons in churches on every street corner in the US.
Also, you don't have to be any kind of saint. You need to be an a-typical lobbyist. Preferable with experience working for big oil, big pharma or big tobacco. A low down dirty underhanded lobbyist motivated purely by money, but paid for by people like me.
I will pay you £5 though. Get another 100,000 like me and you're making a cool £500,000 gross. Just be sure to properly document what you're doing and what you intend to do.
I'll also give you £5 worth of slush money to grease palms and what not.
And if you meet certain objectives and milestones, I may even give you a £5 bonus at the end of the year.
Hell, I'll even give you £1 to give to every member of congress you secure, and £2 for every president you get!! (serving presidents only).
All these numbers are in Pounds Sterling. Do the math.