How many firms are you paying, and how do their relationships overlap?
Running three or more shops against one budget is common, and almost nobody has laid them side by side.
Ask your lobbyists a better question than how it is going.
Every member is moved by something different, and your lobbyists already know things about a specific one that no database will ever hold. Who they trust. What they are worried about at home. Which staffer actually decides. That knowledge is sitting in your vendors and almost nobody asks for it directly.
So ask. Then point the team at the connection that does not exist yet, instead of the one that already does. That is the whole method, and most of the value in it comes from having asked.
Name who has to say yes
Not the committee. The people. And the staff who will tell them what to think about it.
Score what you already have
For each of them, how strong is the connection really, and who inside your world holds it. Most come back weaker than the org chart suggests.
Spend on the gaps
Every activity gets aimed at a name and a gap. That is the difference between a program and a pile of receipts.
A differentiated look at the lobbying landscape.
The members you need
Who gives to the chair and each member of the committee for this session and historically.
The lobby firms already present
Which firms represent clients who fund these members, and how deep it actually runs. Including the one you are already paying.
The actor off the org chart
The business partner, the board seat, the local official a member returns calls to. We connect with people and groups that will actually help you win.
“Lobbying is a delicate balance of influence and communications. I really appreciate Highview’s tactical delivery of the right message to key policymakers at the right time to set the stage and then amplify our lobbying efforts. Their expertise has been invaluable to my clients’ success.”
Jennifer SnyderPartner, Capitol Advocacy
We will watch the seats that govern you, whether or not you hire us.
Tell us which bodies write and enforce your rules. We will tell you when a term is expiring, what the statute requires of whoever fills it, and whether it needs Senate confirmation. A vacancy report means you are already late. A term expiring is a year of warning.
The line we hold: we do not lobby the Legislature directly and we do not replace the shop you have. If your lobbyist is good, this makes them look it.
Tell us what you need decided.
If you want to talk through an issue, a bill, a seat or an opponent, we are happy to have that conversation before anybody signs anything.
Or just name the sector. We will pull the filings and show you who already lobbies the people you need, on a call, with nothing owed either way.