Cops on the Hill: Stories from the Week of February 12, 2021

Cops on the Hill

Stories from the Week of February 12, 2021

Sobering Moment:  The presentation was completely normal, until I asked for questions, concerns.  The aide from Texas said he related to much I had said.  His dad had been arrested for simple possession, losing his voting rights and had suffered his whole life from the label of “convicted felon.”  The aide at 15 was ordered out of the car with his friends w/o cause.  Drug paraphernalia was found and all the boys were arrested, which he had to reveal when he took the bar exam.

My breathing nearly stopped as the young man could be a poster child/family of the Drug War.  Rarely in my 5,000 presentations over 15 years have I had heard such a history. God.  I wanted to reach thru the phone and hug him.  Instead, I told him I will work hard to end the War on Drugs.

Activity this week:

3538 Presentations to Congressional staffers…13 this week..

1 meeting this week

COP stats since inception: August 2009

90 Radio Interviews… 0 this week
327 personal chats with a Member of Congress… 0 this week

206 interviews and reports in minor media …0 this week.

397 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, VIPs, etc.: 0 this week –
107 Appearances/Interviews on major TV/Radio/Print media. 0 This week

44 published interviews/foto in major (daily) newspapers or magazine… 0 this week
Blaze TV {new, popular right-wing}, (Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision, BBC, CNN, NPR, 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

31 major conferences attended – (UN drug conference, CPAC, LULAC, NRA, CBC, ASA, DPA, Dem & Repub. Presidential conventions., National Review, Republican Annual Retreat etc.) 0 this week

Weekly attendance at Grover Norquist’s Wednesday brunch attended by 150 conservative leaders. Named the “Grand Central Station of the Conservative Movement.”
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