Lobbyists

     The folks I talk with in Montgomery are frequently anti- lobbyist.
     But the Reuters news agency reports this morning that those folks are having a heyday in Washington:

"When 15 lobbyists and business leaders recently held talks with Trump administration officials on energy infrastructure and climate change, they were surprised by the officials’ opening question: “Do you have a regulation that we could put on a list to try to eliminate? Is there something that is impeding you from growing?”

In that moment, one of the lobbyists at the meeting knew it was a new era. “That as an opening was not the way the Obama administration approached meetings,” she said."

 HERE's the story.