My Realization as a Lobbyist
By Alex Malburg, Contributor
6/21/2007
Today at Boys State, the statement of “The more you put into this week the more you get out” has become extremely true. Walking around the Armstrong building, I have learned interesting facts and new ways to make deals. It seems that Monroe and Jackson have combined police forces to increase the safety and decrease the cost for all their needs. A center dispatch has been talked about to make sure the bond between Monroe and Jackson will be supreme. What scares me the most is a rumor that all the State funding for the police has been cut. This defiantly alarms me because the crime rate in Monroe has been slowly increasing especially with the recent school killings of twelve kids.
As a lobbyist, visiting other cities has been a daily commute. Proposing to cities such as Tyler, Monroe, Polk, and Jackson to legalize marijuana in their cities has been incredibly entertaining. I have learned that each of these cities are trying to bring non-medical marijuana to the streets. Polk and Tyler have requested to grow this product and use this income to increase their revenue. AGF have made cities friends and enemies, but the focus of this is to educate each and every one of us to become respectable and brilliant men.