Our guest today is Michael Infanzon. Michael is the Chief Lobbyist for the Arizona Citizens Defense League and Managing Partner at EPIC Policy Group, where he covers a multitude of policy areas, focused on firearms rights and firearms related businesses, veterans issues, motorcycle rights and economic development/small business.

1) What’s a nice guy like you doing being a lobbyist?

2) Why do lobbyists get a bad reputation?

3) In your experience what is the hardest type of bill to get passed? And the easiest?

4) Is there a key piece of legislation that you are particularly proud to have worked on?

5) For several years Arizona has had Governors who have been friendly to the Second Amendment, but currently Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs has vetoed every good gun Bill that has crossed her desk. These Bills have gone through rigorous debate and survived many layers of votes, only to die with the stroke of a politically-driven pen. How do we un-politicize our God-given rights and stop allowing politicians to use them as a political football?

6) You were recently meeting with elected officials in Washington DC. Was that a fruitful trip and why?