The Citizen's Guide to Fighting Government

Abstract: A manual for informed citizen participation in government decision making and administration. Includes advice on conducting a campaign, using the Freedom of Information Act, and much more.

Keywords: book review, politics, political action committees, news conference, media, actualities, fund raising, bureaucrats bureaucracy, agencies, polling, FOIA, freedom of information act, participation, practical, pressure groups, United States government, grassroots activism.

Title: The Citizen's Guide to Fighting Government Author: Senator Steven D. Symms, Larry Grupp, Steven D. Symms Foreword: Daniel Patrick Moynihan Publisher: Jameson Books Date Published: May 1994 ISBN: 0915463636 LOCN: JK1764.S93 1994 Dewey: 323/.042/0973 21 Pages: 213

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CONTENTS

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

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DATA

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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