Cops on the Hill: Stories from the week of August 6 and 13th, 2021

 Personal Understanding:   I had a couple of xcl chats these two weeks.  One House staffer’s mom was an alcoholic who finally went sober.  The staffer’s understanding of addiction and treatment vs punishment was refreshing.  That she is in an R office is a bonus.

Senate support:  I finished the week with a long chat with a Senate staffer on Friday, whose boss is a doctor.  The POV is that yes, the medical community should be the profession helping drug abusers, not jails and punishment.  And this was again an R office…gives me some confidence that change will happen.

These weeks:

3629 Presentations to Congressional staffers… 11 this weeks..

Meetings this weeks:  02-Grover’s center-right:  DC Harm Reduction group

COP stats since inception: August 2009

398 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, VIPs, etc.: 0 this week –

330 personal chats with a Member of Congress… 0

92 Radio Interviews… 0 this week

207 interviews and reports in minor media …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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