Is there ethical lobbying and unethical lobbying? For instance, healthy lobbying.... When you're sitting as mayor and getting reports from staff on issues and making decisions from those reports, that's kind of lobbying you as an elected official.
Then you have people who today can access you through the Internet and send you reports on their position, so you're being lobbied again. But I value that. I can look at these issues, balance them out, and understand both sides of the issue on any given subject.
Is it not more important to discern the unethical lobbying, where they're saying, okay, if you do this for me, or if you implement this, you're going to see support politically or financially, or some sort of benefit...? How do you discern that, especially with the technology today and the access they have to the public office holder?