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emments. Loudoun and Fairfax counties, for example, have lobbyists here.
The state agencies and commissions must also notify the Secretary of the Commonwealth who their chief spokesmen will be.
Truban calls the state representatives the “invisible government—that’s the department heads, the deans. Basically it’s the bureaucracy.”
They can be just as powerful, if not more so, than lobbyists in the private sector, he says. If the highway department doesn’t like your bill, chances are the House or Senate committee considering it won’t like it, either.
Who are the best lobbyists here? Some say the Virginia Education Association, the teachers’ lobbying group, is at the top of the
list.
“I think the teachers do the most effective job of lobbying because they bring
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