After watching groups lobby for more than forty years, I have decided they can be classified into four different teams. Team One panders to their members. They say they fight the good fight every year, and every year they lose. They seldom show up for the game at the Capitol...Their political game plan is to beat on politicians and elected officials. Team Two fields an excellent team at the Capitol. Its lobbyists know the Capitol players. Such teams get some victories, especially if the team members understand the process and the issue as well as having the connections. Team Three goes one step further. It has good lobbyists at the Capitol who work with a field team of grassroots players all across the state. They coordinate the message so that the lobbyists are saying one thing when legislators are at the Capitol. Members from across the state say the same thing when legislators return home each weekend...But the Olympic Award goes to Team Four. In addition to good lobbyists and grassroots organization with political muscle, Team Four knows that in the final analysis legislators will do what constituents want. It takes time, but to survive elected officials need to respond to their constituents. Team Four educates the public. All other things being equal, I will bet on Team Four every time. The best Team Four from the category of smaller associations goes to Twila Brase, President of Citizens' Council on Health Care (CCHC) and its members.They work the press hard and in the process educate the public as to their view. - "CCHC Educates," Winston Borden, Minnesota Government Relations Report, 8/9/04. [emphasis ours]