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Stop Hugging Elected Officials. Start Holding Them Accountable

ACCE Webmaster on Monday, May 19, 2008 at 12:12:03 am

Publishing a vote record on your elected officials is one of the most important tools a chamber government affairs program can provide the business community. Your chamber's vote record is the only public link between your position on proposed laws and how your elected officials voted on those potential laws.

If you do not keep a vote record, you are not holding your elected officials accountable for their votes and how those votes impact the businesses you represent.

Most people think raising money and playing politics is an elected official's job. Not true. Elected officials have one primary responsibility: to vote. Your chamber, therefore, has a responsibility to hold elected officials accountable to your business community by comparing their votes with your positions.

Many other organizations hold the same elected officials accountable to the people they represent, maybe that is why they get more of what they want and you get less of what you want.

- Shaun Lumachi, President, Chamber Advocacy

For more information about Chamber Advocacy, click HERE.

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