Author Question: Putting together a lobbying effort requires that you A. Make sure that changes in law are the ... (Read 59 times)

plus1 · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

Putting together a lobbying effort requires that you

A. Make sure that changes in law are the best way to accomplish your purpose.
B. Keep your issue to yourself. That is, recognize that working with other groups will likely cause your issue to get lost or watered down.
C. Mobilize your supporters only through e-mail and texting to make sure that your message effectively reaches as many people as quickly as possible.
D. Respect legislators by only gathering information on them that is directly connected to the issue you working on.

Question 2

Tax exempt nonprofit organizations

A. Cannot lobby. Doing so would jeopardize their tax exempt status.
B. Can lobby, and if they choose the 501 (h) option, they can spend up to 20 of their first 500,000 of exempt purpose expenditures on lobbying activities.
C. Can lobby, but only if they restrict their discussions to general concepts rather than specific legislation.
D. Can lobby in the same way that any other organization can lobby. That is, there are no additional restrictions placed on tax exempt nonprofits.