Banning any form of paid lobbying, sponsorship, etc. All the politicians should be interested in are votes (eg the preference of the people).
It won't fix it, but it'll help.
It won't fix it, but it'll help.
The problem with this is then the only people that are able to meet with / influence your representatives are the people that are independently wealthy enough to travel to them and take the time off from work to do so. If you can't pay someone to speak on your behalf, and you can't afford to take the time to speak for yourself, how do you get heard? Are you personally willing to fly out to your representatives offices every time something comes up that the EFF lobbies against or for on your behalf?
"here have 200k and swing that bill my way". That's just borderline bribery.
>"here have 200k and swing that bill my way". That's just borderline bribery.
Agreed, and if you have evidence of that happening I'm sure there are plenty of people at the FBI and the FEC that would be quite interested in seeing it. But that's also not anywhere near the same as paying someone to lobby on your behalf.