Lobbyists represent groups who want something from the government. Maybe they want more spending on their chosen area of interest, maybe they want a tax cut, maybe they want more or less regulation of their activities. All are different, and all are the same, in that they want vastly different things but they all want something from the government.  The government’s choice of course is whether to give them that thing, and so delight the lobbyists’ members and justify their membership fees, or deny them that thing, and so risk alienating the voters whose individual concerns are aggregated by the…

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