What to say when you meet your legislator for coffee this autumn (and why it matters!)
GPhA’s Legislative Policy Committee meets this week to discuss a range of pharmacy issues and to recommend to the Board of Directors a handful of legislative priorities for the 2017 legislative session.
Once those issues are set – sometime in mid-October – we’ll be sharing talking points with you and asking you to meet in-person with your state senator and state representative and brief them on our legislation BEFORE they head to Atlanta for the session, which begins in early January.
Invite them to your pharmacy or take them for coffee. The important thing is that they hear from you, their constituent, because you’re a much better and more compelling lobbyist for issues that affect your business than GPhA’s lobbying team can be on its own.
To help prepare you for that task, we teamed up last year with the College of Pharmacy at UGA to produce a couple of instructional videos. Those videos are still timely.
One, which you’ll find here, is a reminder about the importance of your grassroots efforts to keep your legislators informed.
The other, linked here, is a role-playing example of how to be effective when you speak with your legislator – what to say and how to use his or her time well.
Take a look…and be ready to make contact with your elected officials when we send you talking points later this fall.
[ DISCLAIMER – The actors in these videos will not be quitting their day jobs and moving to Hollywood anytime soon. ]
