{"id":591,"date":"2013-04-28T10:31:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T10:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiescent.wordpress.com\/?p=591"},"modified":"2013-04-28T10:31:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T10:31:10","slug":"on-helicopter-rides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/2013\/04\/28\/on-helicopter-rides\/","title":{"rendered":"On Helicopter Rides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a tip for lobbyists:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Promising a helicopter ride will increase the number of MPs who agree to visit your facilities. If you have access to other novelties (rides in a tugboat, visiting an operating theatre, etc), you should consider offering these inducements to attracts MPs to visit you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is from page 86 of the lobbying handbook,\u00a0<i>The Good Lobbyist&#8217;s Guide (2003)<\/i>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Annabel_Young\">Annabel Young<\/a>, former National Party list MP.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably this would work because a helicopter ride is\u00a0 not an everyday experience for most MPs, and would offer an unforgettable experience. But it is now a decade since Young offered this advice.<\/p>\n<p>Now it seems that a helicopter ride is so commonplace, that some politicians cannot remember whether they boarded a chopper or not, at least in the case of John Banks: http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/Banks-knew-about-anonymous-Dotcom-donation&#8212;reports\/tabid\/817\/articleID\/252130\/Default.aspx<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a tip for lobbyists: Promising a helicopter ride will increase the number of MPs who agree to visit your facilities. If you have access to other novelties (rides in a tugboat, visiting an operating theatre, etc), you should consider offering these inducements to attracts MPs to visit you. This is from page 86 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}