Saturday, January 24, 2009

sympathy for the lobbyists

The Salt Lake Tribune is doing a series of exposes critical stories puff-pieces on lobbyists.

Sure, lobbyists are people too and they should be able to talk to legislators and try to convince them by the power of her ideas. But they shouldn't have more access than citizens and they shouldn't be able to get access because they are related to a famous person, like Sen. Hatch.