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Congress Watch, which handles most of Nader's lobbying. It operates on a budget of $145,000 and employs seven full-time lobbyists, who are backed up with an arsenal of research...
Litigation Group, which is Nader's law firm. It has a staff of eight attorneys, who have won most of the cases they have argued before the Supreme Court...
Health Research Group, one of the most effective Nader operations, which, among other things, was active in the successful battle against red dye No. 2, a widely used coloring agent...
With all these balls in the air, Nader, who works mainly out of a small office on K Street about six blocks from the White House, has had to turn more tasks over to subordinates. They sometimes lack his ability for marshaling facts. Result: complaints have increased that some of Nader's research has become sloppy. Another difficulty is that Nader is far more effective as a propagandist than as a lobbyist; none of his organizations can begin to match the well-heeled business lobby...
Then too there is Nader's annoying holier-than-thou attitude. In an attempt to shed his dour reputation, Nader in January showed up on TV as host of the zany NBC's Saturday Night Live. In one routine he deadpanned his way through a comic turn satirizing none other than Ralph Nader. The effort backfired in one respect: though the skit was indeed amusing, Nader portrayed himself altogether too accurately as a driven zealot. Congressmen agree that Nader does his homework, but they are repelled by his insistence that his position is the only morally right...