Lobbying

Lobbying,

Oxford Dictionary

• Seek to influence (a legislator) on an issue.  
• Origin: Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘monastic cloister’): from medieval Latin lobia, lobium ‘covered walk, portico’. The verb sense (originally US) derives from the practice of frequenting the lobby of a house of legislature to influence its members into supporting a cause.

Cambridge Dictionary

• the activity of trying to persuade someone in authority, usually an elected member of a government, to support laws or rules that give your organization or industry an advantage.

Encyclopedia Britannica

• Lobbying, any attempt by individuals or private interest groups to influence the decisions of government; in its original meaning it referred to efforts to influence the votes of legislators, generally in the lobby outside the legislative chamber. Lobbying in some form is inevitable in any political system.

Every member of Legislative Council had 3000+ votes in each 4-year term [initiumlab.com].  So I have to vote every week and this is my duty.  The government has her work to lobby.  However, I find that the "lobbying" is now replaced by casual whatapps message, sometimes even few hours on the same day before voting, without any explanation and information.

To me, this is NOT lobbying.  It is whatsapping.  The symptoms are recurrent, severe and deteriorating.  I will try to contact her relatives to discuss DNACPR.

Dr. Pierre Chan