COP on the Hill: Stories from the week of November 10, 2023

Weekly Activities:

It’s been a while: My first meeting on Thursday was with an R office from Texas extreme conservative ( you have seen him on the news).  For the first time in at least 5 years an assistant treated me with disdain…5 seconds into my presentation – he looked at his watch and did so at least 8 times in the next 15 minutes…he yawned twice for 20-30 seconds without  covering his mouth… = blatant…wow.  Undeterred, I took my full 15 minutes to present the COP POV.

Saving lives might be too expensive:  later on Thursday an assistant to a Republican office from California asked me how much does methadone cost.  The cost is about $18/day.  I pointed out it costs parents and the school board about $500,000 to raise a child to 18..LOL….yes, this was a first that it might be too expensive to save a life.  Yikes!

Solid week:

This Week:

5020 Presentations to Congressional staffers… 16  this week…

Meetings: 01 Grover Norquist

COP stats since inception: August 2009

375  personal chats with a Member of Congress… 0 this week

450 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, VIPs,  0 this week…

449 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, VIPs,  0 this week…1 running for Congress.  I always make the offer to help them articulate a conservative POV on drugs.

109 Appearances/Interviews on major TV/Radio/Print media. 0 This week.

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

98 Radio Interviews:  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

Media:  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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