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$$Misc. Ideas$$: Evil Things Lobbyists Could Help Pass
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Compensation: $5/idea I Use, Official Credits (If It Gets Published), Small Percentage of Royalties (To Be Discussed)*

Specs: So I'm working on what is a pretty important chapter for my interactive novel project, Utility, and I could use all the ideas I can get.  Basically the chapter is just a laundry list of all the terrible atrocities a given fictional lobbyist was an accessory to and an overall assessment of how his existence is a detriment to society.  You can draw from history (or present), make up things that seem plausible or you can even get borderline sci-fi with some crazy ideas, and I'll consider it so long as I can figure out how to make it plausible.

An example of one I'm already using is inspired by all of the controversies surrounding Coca-Cola (most especially water privatization in areas with sparse potable water).  You can read up on this stuff if you're curious, but the basic premise is that I'm attributing fictionalized acts by a fictionalized company to a fictional lobbyist who keeps a fictional bill from passing that would save a made up amount of lives around the world.  I need more things like this, especially glamorous stuff that allows my protagonist to tally up a world-wide death and casualty count that's attributable to the lobbyist.

Note: I'm also working on tons of stuff inspired by recent controversies in the financial sector, but specifics for how a lobbyist could effect this are welcome and helpful.

*Let it be known that I don't know enough about the logistics and legalities of publishing, especially the online publishing world for which this interactive novel is being marketing for me to know for certain to what exact extent I'll be able to do official credits that includes tens (and maybe even hundreds) of collaborators and how exactly royalties realistically can and will be split up.  HOWEVER know that I think that these are awesome ideas and consider them grand priority for people who essentially offer me intellectual property.  If and when the list of contributors gets large enough, I will publicly post the list (sans real-life names) on this site somewhere.



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so, it has to be keeping a positive bill from passing, not creating a bill with negative effects?

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No, it can definitely be pushing a bill with negative effects. There isn't any limiting criteria really; anything that a lobbyist could do (preferably that would be somehow semi-public knowledge, but not necessarily I guess) that would make him evil.

I just said the death tolls and all that stuff because that makes for good fiction, but my ears are open to any ideas.

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fwiw, i'm doing research for an article I'm writing for FTR (yes, I do actually sometimes get paid for writing blogs), and a fellow named Sheldon Adelson has inspired some Mr. Burns-ian level greed in thinking of some ideas. As an example, I could have a casino owner fund a lobbyist to delay a Human Rights resolution with China just so that China's bid for the 2008 Olympics wasn't put at risk just so that the casino owner could be in good graces with China just so that China chooses said casino owner to open up a $1B+ in Macao.

There's a saying about truth being stranger than fiction. It goes something like: "Truth is stranger than fiction."

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