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To: TobagoJack who wrote (128838)	1/23/2017 4:59:50 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217830

A civil service purge would disable the US government and be strongly opposed by every major business in America. When I worked at Chevron I had a problem getting geothermal project and on a sheer whim I chose to call Secretary James Watt and spoke to an aid. I shouldn't have because Chevron was trying to keep their distance, but I did anyway being 27. After telling him my concerns, James Watt himsel came on the line and said he would look into it. Two days later our department received a blind carbon copy of a two page memo to all BLM offices, which gave my civil service friends there to power to brush away their political bosses. That's how it's done and that bureaucracy was essentional to my work. My boss asked if I had anything to do with this proclamation which eliminated our problems, and I lied by omission by saying it was possible because I had shared my concerns with many in government - I just did't mention I talked to Watt. My boss would not have wanted to know. Good people in governmen and they're not monolithically the same. The key to all lobbying is to figure out how their interests ally with yours - someone's almost always does if you're trying to do something good.