… Are the days of the glad-handing lobbyist, carrying an envelope of PAC checks and the proposed wording of a client’s legislative amendment, numbered?
Carter Eskew, a founding partner of the Glover Park Group, which lobbies and provides a host of other services to clients, raised this question in a conversation with me. …
The action has shifted to what is known in the business as strategic advice: how to convince and mobilize voters and opinion elites in support of a client’s agenda. According to Eskew, “Many years ago, members of Congress figured out what they really needed to worry about were their own constituent groups and their own voters.” CONT.
Tom Edsall (Columbia U.), New York Times