Talk about old school... this tactic is straight from Alinsky’s “community organizing” days.
He’d offer a free meal of beans to blacks just before their attendance of a public council meeting. That was back in Alinsky’s heyday, in what, the 1930s?
IT always reminds me of the neo-anarchists who all drank a bunch of milk before their riot in order to puke on the cops who tried to arrest them.