Elected officials always have people pressuring them. Some of those people wear fancy suits, walk into the White House and congressional offices regularly, and are paid handomsely for their efforts to engage in constructice mendaciousness.
Then there are the much maligned "activists" who do it largely for free or cheap and who somehow inhabit an unreality that is not Real America, unlike the people who live in NoVa and own 3 boats (4th coming soon).
