Civil Wrongs: Pelosi Lobbying Reform Must Have Dr. King Rolling In His Grave

Now that she's Speaker of the House will Nancy Pelosi try to silence the voice coming from the pulpit? The article below brings light to legislation that our new Madam Speaker is trying to sneak one in while the country is distracted by war and the upcoming Presidential race.



On Monday, Americans of every political stripe took the occasion to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. — in particular his efforts to mobilize blacks and other minorities into a powerful political force to effect changes in the nation’s civil rights laws. It is, however, the height of irony — or hypocrisy, depending on your point of view — that many of the very same lawmakers who claim unto themselves the exclusive right to speak for the late civil rights leader and tailor his message to fit their political whims were simultaneously working to pass legislation that would have constrained his ability to promote it himself.

Camouflaging their true intentions under the cloak of “lobbying reform,” newly installed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her forces have proposed legislation greatly expanding the scope of lobbying regulation to the point where churches, pastors, religious denominations, public interest organizations, civic organizations and other nonprofit groups would have to register — and be regulated — as lobbyists. It is precisely the sort of religious movement ginned up into a political pressure group that King so masterfully oversaw and used to advance the cause of civil rights. But under the so-called Lobbying Reform Bill, King would have been prevented from “gathering support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In fact, as he addressed the social issues from the pulpit of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga., he might well have had to register as a lobbyist.”

As has been chronicled before, Pelosi’s bill, which claims to target corruption, actually distills down to an effort to use the power of federal law to punish and silence critics of herself and her party while offering loopholes big enough to drive a truck through for labor unions and the sort of political organizations that characteristically back Democrats.


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