Sentences with phrase «special interest groups lobby»

Not exact matches

She is leaving one special interest group (Lamaze International) to work for a natural childbirth lobbying group (The Childbirth Connection), and I find it fitting that she uses her departure to firmly situate natural childbirth as quackery.

One after another, lobby groups and special interests dependent on the state's borrowed money are wheeled out to explain why they should be exempt from the squeeze.

In Albany, which has been criticized for having a pay - to - play culture, special interest groups including lobbying firms, unions and corporations often steer contributions toward those in power, regardless of their ideology.

California lawmakers accepted $ 844,000 in gifts in 2013 — the majority of which came from special interest groups that routinely lobby the state Legislature.

Similar to Gov. Jerry Brown's ballot - measure committee, Gray has used the second campaign account to accept larger campaign checks from special - interest groups and big corporations that lobby the Legislature, including $ 35,000 from the California Independent Petroleum Association, $ 25,000 from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and $ 15,000 from tobacco giant Philip Morris.

REBNY has traditionally focused its lobbying efforts — and dollars — on candidates for state office rather than in New York City, for two main reasons, Lerner said: First, the city's relatively stringent campaign finance laws have historically made it harder for special interest groups to gain as much influence here; and second, although many key issues — such as 421a tax abatements — affect only New York City, they are decided at the state level.

Those Democratic committees have accepted large checks from special interest groups that routinely lobby the Legislature, including insurance companies, defense contractors, oil companies and labor unions.

One benefit of pursuing education reform through the judiciary is that the power of special interest groups — namely, the teachers» unions — is drastically diminished in courtrooms, where political lobbying and campaign contributions are far less influential.

Narrowly focused special interest lobbying groups such as the Connecticut Charter Schools Network (CCSN) were allowed to present testimony but were not put on the Advisory Committee.

State Rep. Brandon McGee, D - Hartford, is being thanked with a glossy mailer from a special interest group that has spent more than $ 1.1 million this year lobbying lawmakers and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to make sure two new charter schools were included in the state budget.

«Electoral intervention is not supposed to be a non-profit's main activity, but these dark money groups are abusing their tax - exempt status by existing primarily as vehicles for corporations and wealthy donors to secretly influence elections,» Fischer noted, adding, «Some dark money non-profits might now use lobbying as an accounting trick to balance their books between electoral and non-electoral spending, leading to a spiraling cycle of non-stop campaigning and special interest influence, but with zero transparency or public accountability.»

If not, why is Greenpeace a special case but other lobby groups / special interests / likely bias not?

In the mid to late 1990 she also worked with the Global Climate Coalition, a special interest group of coal, oil and utility companies, set up to lobby against international action on climate change.

Ever notice that statutory limits on contingency fees are never pushed by everyday Americans who use contingency fee attorneys, but rather by special interest lobby groups representing those who get sued?