If your goal is to destroy all telecommunications companies, then you'd have to out raise them by at least 50%.
If your goal is for their lobbying expenses to rise to the point that there are meetings called and they have to decide whether to invest more than they really want in Washington, you can get away with spending 10 or 15% of what they do.
This especially true if articles written about your position sell easily to newspaper readers.
If your goal is for their lobbying expenses to rise to the point that there are meetings called and they have to decide whether to invest more than they really want in Washington, you can get away with spending 10 or 15% of what they do.
This especially true if articles written about your position sell easily to newspaper readers.