March 15, 2005
The grass is always rootsier
You just gotta love the Indianapolis Star. My favorite comic relief paper is at it again today, with a headline reading "Grass roots press for convention center bill." This would seem a bit out of the ordinary - even in Indianapolis it's hard to picture outraged citizens taking to the streets to demand a larger, more expensive convention center - but I'll bite: Who exactly is leading this grass-roots campaign, Star reporter J.K. Wall?
Hotels, restaurants and other businesses armed their employees with orange signs and sent them to the Indiana Statehouse. Sixty or more workers stayed for an hour on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, greeting legislators as they entered and exited from their chambers. ... The grass-roots lobbying campaign is organized by the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association, which does marketing for the city.
In a related story, a group of North Carolina private citizens has launched a ground-up campaign in defense of cigarette smoking, armed only with a few hand-painted signs and millions of dollars for Congressional lobbyists.
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