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To: Ilaine who wrote (33907)	11/5/2000 3:42:28 PM
From: eddie r gammon	Respond to of 436258

<<<Just out of curiosity, when you were making grown men cry and then "do the right thing," were you on a payroll? I mean, was it your job, as a professional lobbyist?>>> Morelikely a shop steward :-)

To: Ilaine who wrote (33907)	11/5/2000 4:39:05 PM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

>>Legal Aid is advancing the agenda of the permanent welfare class.<< I never though that was the case. You have even less of an argument now that serious Welfare Reform is underway. Let's see. Legal Aid goes to court to force the state of Florida not to piss away nearly 22 million dollars in medical care assistance that is due those making the transition from welfare to work under federal law and this is a "political activity?" Many of the cases Legal Aid takes are not unlike the situation above. I think what irks people is that Legal Aid is so very good at what it does because the entities they sue are often so very wrong...and they win. >>>Ma'am, my First Amendment right not to fund political activity I don't approve of trumps the rights of your poor people to have free representation in the courts.<<< Do you feel the same way about public defenders? They are not dissimilar situations. In the case of Legal Aid the plantiffs haven't been accused of a crime but their rights are at risk without representation and redress through the courts. Was it a suit that changed the Virginia Bar Association policy towards contributions? I have been both paid and unpaid as a lobbyist. I go at it with the same zeal whether an organization or a group of individuals can pay me or not.