Foreword by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Forming a Political Action Group
Chapter 2: Setting Goals
Chapter 3: Brain Trust
Chapter 4: Board of Directors
Chapter 5: Group Spokesman
Chapter 6: The News Conference
Chapter 7: Dealing with the Media
Chapter 8: Writing News Releases and Doing Actualities
Chapter 9: Media Buyer
Chapter 10: Budgets and Calendars
Chapter 11: Strategic Philosophy
Chapter 12: Influencing Partisan Politicians
Chapter 13: Changing Laws
Chapter 14: Motivating People to Vote
Chapter 15: Fact Sheet
Chapter 16: Videos
Chapter 17: Slide Shows
Chapter 18: Speakers Bureau
Chapter 19: Strange Bedfellows Welcome!
Chapter 20: Letters
Chapter 21: Fund Raising Letters
Chapter 22: Mailing Lists and Direct Mail
Chapter 23: Newsletters and Political Speeches
Chapter 24: Demonstrations
Chapter 25: Going to Jail
Chapter 26: Producing a Campaign Brochure
Chapter 27: How Bureaucrats Think, Live and Work
Chapter 28: Bureaucrats at Work
Chapter 29: Agency Rules and How to Fight Them
Chapter 30: Freedom of Information Act
Chapter 31: Using One Bureaucracy Against Another
Chapter 32: Factoids and Other Political Agents
Chapter 33: Dress to Win
Chapter 34: Polling (and other activities that look like polling)
Chapter 35: Credibility
Chapter 36: A Plan for Raising Money
Chapter 37: Potpourri
Chapter 38: The Future: The Truth Shall Make You Free
Afterword
Author: Symms, Steven D. (Steven Douglas), 1938- Title: The citizen's guide to fighting government / Steve Symms & Larry Grupp ; foreword by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Published: Ottawa, Ill. : Jameson Books ; Chicago, IL : Distributed to the book trade by Login Brothers Consortium, c1994. Description: xvii, 213 p. ; 23 cm. LC Call No.: JK1764.S93 1994 Dewey No.: 323/.042/0973 21 ISBN: 0915463636 (pbk.) Subjects: Political participation -- United States. Political action committees -- United States. Politics, Practical -- United States. Pressure groups -- United States. Bureaucracy -- United States. United States -- Politics and government -- 1993- Other authors: Grupp, Larry. Control No.: 98130866
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