P Street Project to lobby for progressives' agenda

This is a couple of days old, but I hadn't seen it.

P Street Project to lobby for progressives' agenda

By Philip Rucker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 24, 2010; 11:36 AM


LAS VEGAS -- A progressive grass-roots organizing group is launching a federal lobbying arm Saturday, seeking to leverage the energy of its members to advance liberal policy in Congress.

The P Street Project is an effort by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee to build upon the progressive movement's online organizing of the past few years and move into the business of registered lobbying. The lobby has recently advocated on some issues during a trial run, but will be officially launched here at Netroots Nation, a gathering of 2,100 liberal leaders, bloggers and activists.

"We are lobbying," Shaunna Thomas, director of the P Street Project, said in an interview Friday. "We are living on the Hill. . . . The goal is to move progressive policy and to win progressive policy, but also to move progressive ideas."

The group is registered as a 501(c)4 organization and hopes to attract not only small-dollar online donations, but also large sums from wealthy liberal activists.


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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/24/AR2010072401248.html

Better late than never though.

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