Essay On Lobbyists

A lobbyist works with politicians and persuades them to help a business or cause. One of the main goals of a lobbyist is to be friendly and convince a politician to support them. However, some lobbyists become very involved in their work and spend thousands of dollars hoping a politician will help them. They will do anything that will help such as taking them out to fancy dinners, handing them tickets to a sporting event, or giving extravagant gifts. Although these gestures can work for some politicians, the most important thing is to have a friendly face and become the politician’s friend. Every year lobbyists collectively spend millions of dollars on food, entertainment, and gifts. It is said that “More than 95 percent of the money spent by lobbyists during the last decade on food and beverages for state officials and their employees was reported — legally — without naming the recipients of those repasts” (Ramsey). This does not even include five percent that was not reported. They spend most of their money on state legislators, state representatives, and dinners of when all representatives and
If one interest groups is able to spend more money than another interest group, the voting will not be fair of equal. Also, the overall amount of money that interest groups spend total needs to go down as well. Voting is a very crucial part of America because it affects every citizen. However, I think lobbyists do not need to be spending almost eight million a year just on dinners and gifts. That money should be go towards helping citizens and other problems. I do find it concerning that if interest groups do all of the persuading, each individual will not be able to speak out and say what they are feeling about topics in America. If only a small percentage of people are expressing their opinions to the politicians, I do not thinking the voting will be fair to