No. The entire point of elected officials is that their decisions aren't based on who has money. If we depend on lobbyists then only companies big enough to a

No. The entire point of elected officials is that their decisions aren't based on who has money. If we depend on lobbyists then only companies big enough to afford them get a seat at the table. That's a plutocracy. > Lobbying is a way of structuring administration of regulation that shifts responsibility from unelected bureaucrats to people. Wait, are you asserting that corporations are people? Uber is not a person and the article suggests that they used their considerable power to take the decisions regarding their regulations out of the hands of the government officials of Portland and thus farther away from the people of Portland.