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Interest groups find ways to pressure politicians through issue ads, lobbying legislators for their position(s), offer to write, or even cooperatively write legislation, and most famously, by donating to the legislators' campaigns, and running ads against their opponents, etc. Interest groups have even helped to run other politicians against legislators that the group(s) feel have 'gotten out of line." It can often be win-win for the groups because they either get the candidate they backed, or they get the attention of the wandering politician through a scare, pushing that legislator back into their camp.
While most politicians would deny such things influence them, and certainly that there is any quid pro quo going on in any of this, politicians only have so much time to legislate, run for office, raise money, etc., and choosing to help interest groups so that the legislators can succeed is the path of least resistance for most of them. With all that against the handful of individuals that might, from time to time, write letters or send emails opposing some of the more well-known things an interest group might want, the members of the public don't stand a chance. Money may not be speech, but it still makes for a powerful weapon.
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