For that matter, people don't realize just how insane lobbying reporting is. They just think "big money" owns everything, but the lobbying paperwork is almost a hundred pages of rules and lobbyists are required to report quarterly, etc, on their interactions with politicians.

Lobbying is odious because they're allowed to draft legislation and congress people aren't required to even read it, so the real solution to lobbying (a constitutional right, redress of grievances, 1st Amendment Right) is to stop that, and maybe put a middle man in there.

Want to lobby a politician? Let some Administration of Lobbying have a third party present, etc. There, you've solved shitty politicians being swayed be even more manipulative lobbyists. All the private dealings go away, no more expensive lunches (note: lobbyists can't technically pay for lunches but if you meet one at a fundraiser where the plates were $20k a piece, you know someone paid for them to be there).

100 pages of rules. Holy shit, how can they deal with themselves.

I'm a chemical applicator on turf. You should see our rule books.

...without reporting it?

Lobbying is a 1st Amendment Right, it's difficult to sequester it, but I argued it could be done.

Yet you mocked my commentary with "all the poor little lobbyists."

8 months before the primaries should leave a lot of room. Maybe 4-6 months for a significant challenger? After that though, good luck...