heather podesta
Members of the Senate and House of Representatives should be like criminal juries: neutral and closed to the world. The only people they should listen to are their superiors and the American people. Any other influence could sway a particular iniative in the direction of a motivated individual with an agenda or axe to grind, otherwise known as a lobbyist.
Our elected officials are distracted enough as it is with what's on their plate and the inefficient manner in which the federal government does business. The last thing they need is hoardes of manipulative people hanging around asking for them to do something. In this case, the quote "Too many cooks in the kitchen make a bad cake" is apt.
I respect lobbying as a constitutionally approved practice and lobbyists for working hard at what they strongly believe in. Yet, I can't support a practice that has yet to sit well with me.
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