1. Homework/Announcements
Monday December 15, 2014
Agenda
Homework/Announcements
Review Last Week’s Material
Interest Groups and Lobbyists
How a Bill Becomes a Law Video
Write 1 Paragraph in which you:
Create an Interest Group of your own dedicated to a specific cause.
What is that cause? What does your group hope to accomplish?
How could your interest group bring attention to your cause and how could it affect the law making process?
Progress Reports go home Tomorrow.
How a Bill Becomes a Law Quiz on Thursday

2. Civics and Economics Day 75

3. Review

4. Who Represents Us?

5. Gerrymandering
What is Gerrymandering?
Why does gerrymandering happen?

6. Does this District seem gerrymandered? Why or why not?

7. Biased and Unbiased What is a bias? How does this Picture show bias?
How can bias affect things?

8. Campaign Financing How much does it cost to win an election?
Where do they get this money?
What is “Citizens United” and how did it affect elections?
What is a Super PAC?

9. Lobbyists and Interest Groups Notes

10. Interest Groups Interest Groups
A group of people banded together for a common purpose.
Examples:
NRA- National Rifle Association.
NAACP- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
AARP- American Association of Retired People.

11. Lobbyists
Lobbyists
Someone who tries to persuade legislators to vote for legislation
Often these are people paid to try and change how people vote.

12. Example: Interest Group: ACS CAN Lobbyist: Mr. Neanover

14. Another Example:

15. Lobbyists and Interest Groups: Are they good or bad?

16. Good or Bad? Good Bad Bring attention to specific issues
Lobbyists work for organizations that know more about issues than a lot of politicians.
Ex: ACS CAN
People listen to who give them money
Contributions come with strings attached.

18. Explain this?

19. Homework Write 1 Paragraph in which you:
Create an Interest Group of your own dedicated to a specific cause.
What is that cause? What does your group hope to accomplish?
How could your interest group bring attention to your cause and how could it affect the law making process?