Our firm is proud to help manage strategy and content for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s (and U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform’s) online grassroots program — which has become one of the premier grassroots networks in the country.
It’s that effectiveness that has made the Chamber a target by Big Labor, extremist environmental groups and even the White House.
The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel has a must-read interview with U.S. Chamber President and CEO Tom Donohue today, in which he discusses the attacks on the Chamber, as well as the organization’s very effective efforts to promote policies that create jobs and economic growth — and oppose those that don’t.
In this snippet, Donohue gives a shout out to the online grassroots network that we’re proud to help manage:
“I did an interview a couple of week ago, and somebody said, ‘Well, the White House says that you’ve become Dr. No and you are going to lose your seat at the table.’ And I said, ‘The White House doesn’t give out the seats at the table. The seats at the table go to the people who have a rational policy, who have strong people to advance that policy, that have a strong grass-roots system, that have the assets to support their program, and that are willing to play in the political process,” Mr. Donohue remarks, sitting in his office, which looks across Lafayette Park to the White House.
The Chamber is demonstrating each day that a strong, effective e-campaign is an invaluable part of any advocacy’s arsenal, and can help bring about real grassroots pressure and measurable results.