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In-Depth Information
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 “Leveling
the Playing Field” - By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, June
2006)
“The property owner should form a relationship with his
or her representative. The most effective citizen is the one
who has worked long and hard to participate in government, and
is well known to the elected representative.”
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- “Visiting
Your Representative—How To Be Heard” - By Carol
W. LaGrasse (PRFA Position Brief, March 2006)
The most effective way to influence your representative is
to visit the official at the capitol or the district office,
either as an informed individual citizen, as part of a group
visit, or as a participant in a rally or lobbying day.
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- “Write for
Property Rights — Act Now, After Kelo, A Time of Outrage
and Opportunity” - By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, January
2006)
The State Senate hearing at the Capitol left the impression
that delaying action on eminent domain could be used to diffuse
the outrage over the Kelo v. New London ruling. A revised
definition of blight might lull citizens into false security.
But Senator DeFrancisco has a bill to restore constitutional
limits to eminent domain and he and Assemblyman Brodsky have
proposed that condemnation by authorities be approved by elected
bodies.
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- A Wake-Up
Call—Organizing for Success, Proceedings of the
Fifth Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights,
edited by Carol W. LaGrasse, Property Rights Foundation of America,
Inc.
National leaders and experts reveal essentials about reaching
your representative, exposing government to the light of day,
effective media work, web outreach, cable television, the successful
newsletter, keeping a group together, building coalitions, and
fund-raising—all in the context of defending freedom.
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Carol LaGrasse at U.S. Capitol during 2000 Annual Conference
of the Alliance for America. She has found that it is necessary
to go directly to Washington and State capitols to be an effective
citizen advocate.
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 “The Web
- Unlimited Outreach” by Ray Kreig, P.E., R. A. Kreig
Associates, Anchorage, Alaska; speech delivered at the Fifth
Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights, Albany,
NY (PRFA, 2000)
Ray Kreig advises how his and Ms. Gerhart’s web
site was organized effectively during 1999-2000 to defeat the
Conservation and Reinvestment Act (CARA).
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 “Reaching
Your Representative” - Jeff Williams, Assistant Director
of Governmental Relations, New York Farm Bureau; speech delivered
at the Fifth Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights,
Albany, NY (PRFA, 2000)
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 “Chuck
Cushman on tactics,” excerpts from his speech, “Protecting
Private Lands in the Northeast,” Proceedings of the
Fourth Annual N.Y. Conf. on Private Property Rights (PRFA
1999)
Chuck Cushman gives an idea of his formidable free-style organizing
tactics.
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