COP on the Hill: Stories from the week of March 24, 2023

Stories from the week of March 24, 2023

I like your hat.   I remember your hat:

I was a few minutes early for a meeting with the aide to Senator Blackburn (R-TN).  Two women entered the small reception area.  After a few moments one said, “I like your hat.”  Thank you I replied, “you should see the horse that goes under it.”  This led to showing her a foto of Misty.  Her companion added her voice to the small talk, “ I remember your hat.  You rode that horse across America, right?  And you want to legalize all drugs.”

“Guilty on both charges, but how did you know?”  She explained that 16 years ago, was she an aide to Congressman Shadegg (R-AZ).  I had made my standard presentation to her, which always includes a bit of my biography.  It may have helped that I mentioned that I rode thru Arizona in 2005 en route to New York City.

You could have knocked me over with a feather.  Perhaps I still have “it.”  An extra shot of Crown Royal whiskey, when I returned home.

Weekly Activities:

3961 Presentations to Congressional staffers… 08 this week…

COP stats since inception: August 2009

356 personal chats with a Member of Congress… 0 this week….

438 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, VIPs, etc   0 this week

108 Appearances/Interviews on major TV/Radio/Print media. 01 This week. Esquire Magazine

96 Radio Interviews:  0 this week;

215 interviews and reports in minor media …0 this week –

33 major conferences attended – CPAC 2023, (3 UN drug conferences in Vienna, Austria),  LULAC, NRA, CBC, ASA, DPA, Dem & Repub. Presidential conventions., National Review, Republican Annual Retreat etc.) 0 this week

in the past – Blaze TV {new, popular right-wing}, (Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision, BBC, CNN, NPR, OAN, German, Swiss, French, Spanish TV and radio) Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Grand Rapids Press + 9 other MI papers. Chicago Tribune, Honolulu Star Advertiser {foto and caption}, Reason Magazine, Reuters

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