LobSim Org Clients and LobSim Blogs

Who are the clients for these three orgs? The congresswoman's clients are of course her constituents in Chester Co. Mr. Fantorum's clients are a series of businesses that include banks, for profit educational firms, energy companies, and drug companies. Prof Smith and Minerva work for consumer protection agencies, environmental orgs, green energy business, and the AMA.

How does all this affect the writing you will do? It affects mainly the process toward producing the writing, esp the proposal/arg piece that will lay out the bill you and your org want passed. The scandals and opportunities, the clients and their wishes all go to produce the context under which the proposal you write is constructed. Here is one example: If there is a scandal for Mr. F then those you who work for him must fend off those in the other orgs who will want to criticize your lobbying firm and him and by implication your justification for some part of the bill that you all are pushing. Therefore, you have to be aware of what the other orgs are proposing as well.

Staff members of each blog must read the other two blogs and the research reports that they are writing. You want to help or discredit the other org so that your proposal gains strength. The resources you will use to help your clients to get what they want from the legislation your are proposing will include statements about what the other org is doing or not doing to affect change.

Much of this pre-proposal writing is going to take place in the blogs the three different orgs produce. The news about scandals or successes of the three orgs is going to be broadcast on the LobSim Portal page and on Twitter. If you miss a juicy change in the status of your employer and do not act accordingly to help him or her weather a storm or take advantage of a positive outcome, you will be put into a negative position. Be alert and react immediately on your blog or on Twitter to the changes that will be posted on the LobSim Portal site.