He doesn’t like to register his right to free speech either
The Tennessee Firearm’s Association’s head, John Harris, is not a registered lobbyist. Oh teh noes. He says it’s because he doesn’t lobby:
Harris said he is exempt from registering as a lobbyist because his primary responsibility is writing a newsletter for the association’s membership, and because he doesn’t initiate conversations with lawmakers.
“I can go over and listen all I want to, and that doesn’t make me a lobbyist,” he said. “I’m advocating to my members.”
“I try to limit my activities over there to monitoring what they are doing, and writing reports,” he said. “And showing up when I have a legislator call me and say we’d like you to be in the audience for purposes of testifying.”
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Considering how much contacting my legislators I have done, I wonder if people expect me to “register”.
Not that I will, mind you, just wondering.