Strike The Root. Thats cruel! I like it.
>>Contact the biggest five or ten or twenty firms you can find a contact in. The higher up the better of course–but any level will do. Identify yourself and tell them how much you have spent in the recent past at their place of business.<<
Actually, I have been doing it for years but I do it with the smallest companies, where my business represents a decent percentage of their income.
My method is to have a friendly lunch with the owner and get to know him a bit. Then the next lunch, a month or so later, I’ll bring up various issues that conern me and ask his opinions. The ones he doesn’t agree with I write down and gather the research necessary to educate him.
Generally in four or five months I will have brought him around to my way of thinking. That’s when I ask his permission to put up posters supporting issues, such as CCW’s and term limits, etc.
Furious about what to do? This is EXCELLENT!