You can, but as a former small business owner, I understand the complexities of trying to kick start an organization. In DC the real power players are not the elected officials, it is their support staff. They stay though each term. Waltzing in there and expecting to immediately have their bosses ear is naive.

It would take tens of millions of dollars a year, and a life cycle of these support staffers for a new group to have the ears the way ALPA does.

Our guys make phone calls and get appointments, with or without checks.