COP on the Hill – Stories from the week of July 30, 2025

This Week:

01  meetings…  Grover Norquist, right of center

7120Presentations to Congressional staffers… 12 this week

 Cold Pizza = Education:

The cafeteria was crowded and I squeezed into a chair near 4 staffers…as often happens, one asked what issue brought me to town…my pizza got colder, as I answered their questions and concerns about ending the drug war…10 minutes later they took and I smiled, despite having to eat cold pizza, like I did in college.

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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