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COP on the Hill:  Stories from the week of May 17, 2024

Posted September 5th, 2024 by hiwayhowie

Stuff Happens:  I was leaving a Senator’s office, as the Swedish ambassador was walking in with some aides..He had a flag on his lapel which I incorrectly guessed was Denmark…oops..despite that we engaged.  He gave me a minute to explain how Norway next door had adopted a pro-life position in order to help their heroin addicts survive the problem.  Later, I sent him the 6 minute summary of the Swiss program via email.

This Makes my day and month:  “old soldiers never die.  They just fade away.” General MacArthur 1953

One day when I no longer go up and down the corridors of the Congress, my belief is that I leave 1000s of Congressional assistants with a few nuggets of wisdom regarding police work and the intersection of the prohibition of some drugs.  This from a Utah Senator Mike Lee’s office.

Hi Howard,

I appreciate the information you dropped off and your advocacy in this area. I clerked for the United States Attorney’s Office in Utah and for two separate District Attorney’s offices during my time in law school, and I saw many such cases like what you described. Thank you for your service. Dedicated officers like yourself are the thread holding the fabric of our society together.

Keep me informed on issues you think Senator Lee could be helpful with.

Best,
Sean

Chief Legal Counsel

Senator Lee

 

This Week:

1 meeting: Grover Norquist  :

6009 Presentations to Congressional staffers… 07  this week

470 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, VIPs,   …spoke to 01 this week..R candidate running for the US House

 

COP stats since inception: August 2009

400 personal chats with a Member of Congress… 00

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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Dear Howard,

 

I hope you are well.

 

I am xxxxx with Meta’s Content Policy team, which sets the standards for what content is and is not allowed on our platform. As part of this process, we regularly speak with experts, thought leaders, academia, and civil society to understand how we can improve our policies to better serve our user community and to more effectively remove violating content from our platform.

 

Currently, under our ‘Restricted Goods and Services’ policy, we restrict attempts to purchase, sell, market, coordinate the trade of, donate, offer or solicit high-risk drugs (drugs with a high likelihood of misuse, addiction, or associated with serious health risks, including overdose; e.g., cocaine, fentanyl, heroin). We are currently reviewing our list of high-risk drugs with the aim to include drugs that are considered the most dangerous, in terms of deaths, overdose etc..

 

Given your expertise, I would like to request for an off-the-record and informal discussion about this work. The call should last approximately 45-minutes. Please let me know what time would be convenient for you over the coming weeks.

 

Many thanks,

 

 

 

 

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