COP on the Hill – Stories from the week of August 16, 2024

Prohibition Strategies persist:  I had an excellent chat with a staffer I have known for several years.  He was proud that his Member had introduced yet more legislation to “get tough” on dealers and smugglers of Fenty.  He believed that the illegals were bringing it across the river.

Painfully, I gave him the info that in 2023 per the Border Patrol – 86% of the Fenty found at the border was caught at a POE (port of entry) in American cars and trucks and driven by Americans.

Note:  I did not go to the Capitol last week, following the guidelines for covid

COP stats since inception: August 2009

This Week:

6059 Presentations to Congressional staffers… 14 this week

1 meeting..Grover Norquist center-right

Activities since August 2009:

403 personal chats with a Member of Congress… 0 this week

476 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, VIPs,   … 0 this week..

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:  01 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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