Revisiting the ABLE Act

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🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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When Chip Gerhardt's daughter Anne ran into some issues with Social Security disability benefits, his job as a lobbyist became very personal.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:07.0	Lobbyists don't have the best reputation.
0:15.0	Like you might associate them with advocating for Big Tobacco or loopholes for the finance
0:19.4	industry, but that's not all they do.
0:22.4	Chip Gahart is a lobbyist and yeah he knows his job can get a bad rap.
0:26.6	It's not like I'm advocating for a battery acid factory next to a childcare center.
0:32.0	Chip is the CEO of government strategies group in Cincinnati, Ohio.
0:36.5	And he does a lot of the boring work that lobbyists aren't necessarily known for.
0:40.4	Like working with city zoning boards on new parking garages or meeting with state senators
0:45.5	about budgets.
0:47.0	And for decades his work was a job.
0:48.9	It wasn't like personal, but that changed after his daughter Ann was born and has down
0:54.5	syndrome and reported Ricky Mulvey met with Ann at Kroger, the grocery store where she
0:59.6	works.
1:00.6	Welcome to the show Ricky.
1:01.6	Hi Darian.
1:02.6	So Ann told me she loves football.
1:05.1	I mean you've been worth fans.
1:07.2	You are?
1:08.2	Yeah.
1:09.2	Well specifically the Cincinnati Bengals quarterback.
1:10.8	I have a huge clash on Joe Baywell.
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