COP on the Hill:  Stories from the week of January 23, 2026

Stories from the week of January 23, 2026

Money Talks: A weekly theme at the Norquist meeting is the need to cut government spending.  Apropos, a state representative to a New England state addressed this.  Afterwards, I showed him a solid way to cut a half billion in yearly costs; reduce simple possession of hard drugs from a 3–5-year felony in state prisons to a one-year misdemeanor in a county jail.

I followed up with a one pager with the facts and figures.

Media contact: Also at the Norquist meeting, I met a reporter who while experienced had a new position with a major paper. I will be giving him a possible story over the weekend re the drug reform movement.  Stay tuned.

Meetings this week:  1 Grover Norquist right of center meetings

7242 Presentations to Congressional staffers…  11 this week

493 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, VIPs,   … 01  this week: Candidate for the US House from Texas.

COP stats since inception: August 2009

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

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

102 Radio Interviews:  0 this week

34 major conferences attended – CPAC 2024, (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, Stern

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