If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

I'm not exactly the endorsement people are seeking.

It's very difficult for felons to live in society.

Some issues lend themselves to grassroots campaigns - homeschooling works well - but others require contrivance and connivance to whip up support. Often, lobbyists will hire vendors to dispatch blast emails and robocalls in the hopes of bombarding Congressional offices with citizen fury.

If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.