COP on the Hill – Stories from the week of July 16 and 23, 2025

This Week:

02  meetings…  Grover Norquist, right of center

7120 Presentations to Congressional staffers… 16 this week (and 14 the previous two week)

Coup de main:*

At Grovers there was a 6-person group from France that was in town to learn how our federal government functions.  One had a keen interest in prisons and how to reduce the number (France is considering spending a half billion to build a maximum security in French Surinam (South America).  We had a solid 15-minute chat en  français.

*helping hand

COP stats since inception: August 2009

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

486 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, VIPs,   … 04 this week. Nice chats with the former Speaker of the Missouri House and 3 MO Senators.

117 Appearances/Interviews on major TV/Radio/Print media. 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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