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Meyer: Policy Groups Succeed by Serving as Outsourced Staff for Lawmakers
“The best thing you can do is be an outsource staff for them, give them the resources they need and work behind the scenes to make sure they understand the policy.”
Meyer: Lack of policing data allows social media anecdotes to win
“We're letting right now, when no data exists, anecdotes win, and that's why isolated incidents on social media completely color how Americans view policing.”
Meyer: Corporate state lobbying focuses primarily on defense and blocking bills
“What's interesting is with lobbying, most of it's on defense. So what happens is a giant corporation will hire maybe five or six lobbying firms, all the top ones in the state, just so that if something goes wrong, they can activate them.”