COP on the Hill – Stories from the week of June 28 and July 5, 2024

Times are a changing:  In my one-minute chat with a Republican from Texas he stated, “You don’t need to convince me of that approach.” …as I indicated the macro change of moving drug users from the criminal community to the medical community….music to me ears

Later I had a 30 second chat with another Texas CMan in the elevator…always a bit fun

03 meetings: 2 Grover Norquist  and a Washington Post event

6045 Presentations to Congressional staffers… 11 this week

403 personal chats with a Member of Congress… 03 CMan Pfluger Pfluger (R-TX); Guthrie (R-KY) and Ellezy (R-TX)

COP stats since inception: August 2009

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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