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General Rules for Organizing for Legislative Advocacy

  

Tools & Checklists

Contributed by Phil Rabinowitz

Edited by Bill Berkowitz and Tim Brownlee

Checklist

Here, you'll find a checklist summarizing the major points contained in the text.

Lawmaker's support

___a bill with funding attached

___a bill with regulations that benefits target audience

___a bill that makes issues legit

___local ordinance

___budget advocacy

___simple political, intellectual, and moral support

___link with other contacts

Reasons to engage in such

___to gain powerful allies

___to create positive publicity

___to lend focus to your issues

___it is an effective way to bolster a cause

How to organize

___get as many people involved as possible

___be competent of various aspects

___make all goals clearly understood

___network

___be patient

 

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