"We shouldn't need to be browbeating them about 2 or 3 issues every week. If we need to constantly pester our representatives, telling them what we want, maybe it's because they don't really represent us; that's why they don't automatically know -- or care to act on -- what we want."
Well yes and no. Yes this does show a degree of distrust in the representatives. No it is important that people tell them what they want. These groups are nothing more the special interest groups. Which is to say they are gatherings of people who have certain interests. They represent the people within the organization. So when they speack they speak for these people to the representative, who need to listen and consider how much weight they want to give these groups. The only real danger of these groups is if they are no longer representing those they clam to be representing and they are taken over by a few people who choose to use it "image or representing" to forward their personnal wants and goals.
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Well yes and no. Yes this does show a degree of distrust in the representatives. No it is important that people tell them what they want. These groups are nothing more the special interest groups. Which is to say they are gatherings of people who have certain interests. They represent the people within the organization. So when they speack they speak for these people to the representative, who need to listen and consider how much weight they want to give these groups. The only real danger of these groups is if they are no longer representing those they clam to be representing and they are taken over by a few people who choose to use it "image or representing" to forward their personnal wants and goals.